Cité Soleil

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Cité Soleil (2006)
Child on a dump in Cité Soleil. Haiti in July 2002

Cité Soleil ( Haitian Site Soley , German: Sonnenstadt ) is a very densely populated slum in Port-au-Prince , Haiti . It is located between the harbor and other slums. This slum is one of the largest in the western hemisphere. The settlement was originally designed as a workers' settlement.

Situation of the residents

The estimated 200,000 to 400,000 people live here in extreme poverty on an area of ​​5 square kilometers. There are few police , no sewers , no shops, and next to no electricity. There are no stable social systems. Violence and gangs determine the social atmosphere. 90 percent of the residents are unemployed. The annual income of most residents is less than $ 360. People and animals try to use the huge garbage dumps in Cité Soleil as their life resource. In 1993 Cité Soleil was the scene of an attack by FRAPH in which around 50 people were killed.

health care

There were two health centers for the residents in 2004/05, which can treat up to 20 patients a day. The cost of treatment outside Cité Soleil is not affordable for residents. Doctors Without Borders have been involved since September 2005 and have been able to improve the still minimal medical care.

Interventions by the UN mission

According to the UN , UN soldiers are active in Cité Soleil at the request of the René Préval government . The mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( MINUSTAH ) was unanimously extended on October 15, 2007 by the UN Security Council. Human rights organizations and the Haitian news agency HIP as well as Yves Engler and other journalists report on numerous attacks by UN soldiers on the civilian population. The shootings of civilians were documented on video. UN tanks destroyed "dilapidated buildings" during an operation in 2007. During this daily operation, 22,000 shots were fired and numerous civilians, including women and children, were killed. The UN mission is also criticized by human rights organizations and trade unions. The head of the grassroots union organization Batay Ouvriye , Yannick Etienne, considers the deployment of the UN troops to be a “total failure”. The everyday life of the people in Haiti was “dominated by a feeling of fear” in view of the violence (Sonja Wenger, WOZ). They also have "no confidence" in the state.

Movie

In his documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil , Asger Leth describes the situation in Cité Soleil during the last weeks of the Aristide government in 2004.

Personalities

  • Mario Delatour. Filmmaker: The Kingdom (1994), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)

literature

  • Mike Davis: Planet of the Slums . Verlag Association A. Berlin, Hamburg 2007
  • Nick Stone: Voodoo . Original edition 2006 Mr. Clarinet . German Edition 2007, Goldmann, (review Michael Drewniok online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RedCross.int (no date): "Hoping for change in Haiti's Cité Soleil" , by Didier Revol
  2. ↑ Handelsblatt v. August 15, 2003: A piece of Africa in Latin America ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Klaus Ehringfeld  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltreporter.net
  3. ↑ cf. also Haiti Report (September 9, 2002): "Violence Between Gangs in Cite Soleil"
  4. ↑ Medical aid in Haitian slums. Doctors Without Borders report of September 12, 2005 ( Memento of the original of December 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.at
  5. ↑ cf. also HAITI: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege (February 2007) ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ipsnews.net
  6. ↑ cf. also: HaitiAction.net (April 25, 2005): "Cité Soleil under siege: Haiti's elite, UN, and fat cat NGOs paralyzed"
  7. ↑ ZMag.org (July 17, 2005): "Murdering Haiti" ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2005 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , by Yves Engler  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zmag.org
  8. ↑ cf. Counterpunch.org (November 24, 2006): "The UN Fails Haiti, Again" , by Kim Ives
  9. ↑ WikiLeaked US Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force By Dan Coughlin September 27, 2011
  10. ↑ cf. DemocracyNow.org (December 29, 2006): "Another Massacre in Cite Soleil?" ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview with the Creole human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.democracynow.org
  11. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Dillmann : Sombre Sun City - Oppressive poverty, armed gangs, impunity and corruption: In Haiti, not a day goes by without murders and kidnappings . uni-kassel.de. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2013.

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Coordinates: 18 ° 34'59 "  N , 72 ° 20'6"  W.