Posted on 01/07/2005 1:34:19 PM PST by frog_jerk_2004
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan flew over the tsunami-ravaged landscape of Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday and asked "Where are the people?" as Jakarta raised its death toll by thousands.
Secretary of State Colin Powell also expressed shock at the scale of the disaster as he toured another devastated Indian Ocean country, Sri Lanka.
As aid workers strove to reach hundreds of thousands of people thought to be stranded in isolated parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island, Jakarta added more than 7,000 deaths to its tsunami toll. It now stands at 101,318, out of a total of more than 153,000 for the 13 nations affected.
"I have never seen such utter destruction, mile after mile. You wonder, where are the people?," Annan told reporters after a helicopter tour with World Bank chief James Wolfensohn over Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra.
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He's "horrified at the destruction" because he knows he might not be able to skim off as much of the money as he would like. He may actually have to give some of it to those people who lost so much.
Good old Annan, in and out, quicker than you can say "fraud".
Well, it sure destroyed his ski vacation.
Horrified he might not be able to take as much as he planned.
30 million murdered by the Communist Soviet Union
40 million murdered by the Communist China
Millions murdered ansd imprisioned by Communist Vietnam
300,000 slaughtered in Iraq
Hundred of thousand murdered by the Taliban
3 million killed by Pol Pot in Communist Cambodia
Millions starving in socialist Zimbabwe
Millions slaughtered in North Korea
Hundreds of thousands murdered and imprisoned by Castro
Why does he care now?
CUSTOMER: "I'll take my Koffee with half-skim"
WAITER: "That's the only way it comes..."
How true!
He's now horrified by the disaster. Was he born yesterday or something?:S
Rec'd the below via email. Guess Kofi's wondering who he'll send the condoms, or at the very least try to pocket the $28 million.
FRIDAY FAX
January 7, 2004
Volume 8, Number 3
UNFPA Elusive About Abortion Aid for Tsunami Victims
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) describes itself as the "largest international public sector supplier of contraceptives, condoms and other reproductive health essentials," and states that such supplies are "critical to protecting reproductive health in emergency situations." Yet
in press releases on its tsunami relief activities, UNFPA steers clear of directly stating that it provides contraceptives or abortion aids. UNFPA may be responding to past public criticism after disclosures that it was
providing such supplies.
In its January 6 press release, the latest and most explicit to date, UNFPA has requested $28 million in donations for, among other things, "the reestablishment of basic reproductive health services" in Indonesia, the
re-establishment of "reproductive health services," purchases of "reproductive health commodities" and promotion of "adolescent reproductive health" in the Maldives, and to meet "urgent reproductive
health needs" and "restore" and raise awareness of "emergency reproductive health services" in Sri Lanka.
According to UNFPA's "Reproductive Health in Emergency Situations" manual, the "reproductive health needs" of refugees include "guaranteeing the availability of free condoms." Indeed, UNFPA's website says that "Free
condoms are among the first reproductive health supplies to reach people caught in a crisis situation...UNFPA provides both male and female condoms in emergencies."
The manual also describes the "reproductive health kits" developed by UNFPA for "the initial acute phase of the emergency," which include "condoms," "oral and injectable contraceptives" including the abortifacient morning-after pills, and "IUD[s]." The kits also contain manual vacuum aspirators, portable abortion devices that are easily used
in primitive conditions such as refugee areas.
The supplies in the kits are "stored by UNFPA in preparation for immediate distribution when an earthquake, flood...or other crisis arises." Thus, UNFPA is able to "mount a quick response to emergencies, especially in the initial stages [and] can ship out supplies of condoms
and other commodities within a few days." In 2003, UNFPA shipped out over 300 of these "reproductive health kits" to 34 "emergency destinations." [Each reproductive health kit is designed to assist populations totaling
between 10,000-150,000 for up to three months.] UNFPA has not disclosed whether it is providing these kits for tsunami refugees.
UNFPA's increasing caution in revealing the full extent of its activities may be the result of past public relations flops. In 1999, UNFPA faced public criticism after it was revealed that it had distributed reproductive health kits to Albanian refugee camps. The Population Research Institute, among others, claimed that UNFPA had "constructed a 'social marketing' campaign to fabricate demand" for contraceptives and abortifacients among a "captive audience" of refugees.
According to its mandate, UNFPA should not participate in any efforts to increase access to abortion or to provide the medical or technical expertise to facilitate abortion. However, numerous reports from both governmental and nongovernmental sources reveal that UNFPA aggressively
promotes abortion.
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That's odd. He never seemed to too worked up by the atrocities and murders of Saddam Hussein, who murdered more in one year than will die in this tsunami tragedy. Especially when you consider how he enabled Saddam's atrocities by allowing for years the Oil-For-Food scam. Kofi Annan is scum.
I guess he didn't walk through Rwanda after he and his African buddies let the genocide happen. People then asked the same question: "Where are all the people?" And the answer: All dead, 'cause YOU DIDN'T DO A DAMN THING TO STOP THEM BEING SLAUGHTERED, AND YOU'RE DOING THE SAME THING IN DARFUR.
How this guy sleeps at night, I don't know...
He is nothing like you or me or anyone with a conscience.
Just think what that $20billion pilfered from the poor starving Iraqi's can do for the tsunami victims.
He had to wait for Colin Powell's reaction so he could act more horrified than him.
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