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ハイチ大震災：　子どもの人権 --- 商品化　その３

アメリカの宗教関係者１０人が３３人のハイチの子どもたちを誘拐した疑いで逮捕されたニュースが大きく取り上げられています。ＡＦＰの報道は；

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02/01 | 00:15 GMT 時点 AFP 掲載


PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian charity group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country's devastating earthquake.


News of the arrests came as the UN's food agency prepared to launch a massive food effort targeted at vulnerable women in a bid to ease some of the chaos surrounding the relief effort for the January 12 disaster.


Police seized five men and five women with US passports, as well as two Haitians, as they tried to cross into the neighboring Dominican Republic with 33 children two months to 14 years late Friday, Haitian authorities said.


Border police "saw a bus with a lot of children. Thirty-three children. When asked about the children's documents, they had no documents," Haitian Culture and Communications Minister Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said.


Speaking in her detention cell near Port-au-Prince airport, Laura Silsby, head of the Idaho-based New Life Children's Refuge charity, said the group's aims were entirely altruistic.


"We came here literally to just help the children. Our intentions were good," Silsby told AFP. "We wanted to help those who lost parents in the quake or were abandoned."


But the director of the Haitian center where the children are being cared for said earlier Sunday that most of the youngsters insist they still have family.


Some of the older children had spoken to aid workers and "say their parents are alive, and some of them gave us an address and phone numbers," said Patricia Vargas.


The US embassy in Port-au-Prince said the group were being held for "alleged violations of Haitian laws related to immigration."


Haitian officials have warned that child traffickers could take advantage of the chaos after the quake, and that legitimate adoption agencies may rush to take orphans before proper checks have been conducted.


"Everything is disorganized since January 12 and some people are using it to devote themselves to a veritable trade in children," said Jeanne-Bernard Pierre, director of Haiti's Institute of Social Welfare.


Workers from aid groups and other non-governmental and religious organizations have poured into Haiti in the aftermath of the quake which is believed to have killed some 170,000 people.　（以下略）


この団体は、ハイチと云う国のネガティブイメージとそれに追い打ちをかけた大震災後の混乱を悪用して人身売買を仲介しようとした、と言われても仕方が無い。百万歩譲ってたとえ善意だったとしても、宗教者同士だけで打ち合わせて子どもを勝手に国から連れ出す行為は、国をまたいだ誘拐です。キリスト教原理主義のアメリカ政府が強権発動してこの１０人の 「国民」 を救出するのかどうか見もの。以下幾つかの報道を紹介；



    • Title: 'Child traffickers' held in Haiti


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