Sunday, January 30, 2011

Mubarak's police forces who killed 80 demonstrators were trained from Helen Clark's UNDP for nearly 10 years


Egyptian Police Forces trained by UNDP use "democratic" practices to talk to demonstrators

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the U.N.'s flagship organization led by former NZ socialist Helen Clark has trained the Egyptian Police Forces for nearly a decade, in what UNDP in its reporting to Executive Board and donors called a "successful project":

Project Title: UNDP Human rights Capacity Building Project

Project Objective: One of the most important and unique targets BENAA is working with is police officers. BENAA is training officers, at Department of Correction, police stations, central security, training department, security officers, state security, criminal investigations department and public security department.

Project Budget: US$ 6,015,986.00


Helen Clarks discusses with Egyptian Prime Minister the successful police training


As also described by latest Cables, published from the Guardian:

9. (C) Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, who is detailed from the MFA as the coordinator for the UNDP Human Rights Capacity Building Project, described for us the organization's efforts to train the Interior and Justice Ministries and the Public Prosecutor on human rights issues through lectures and workshops. Acknowledging that torture is a "problem, but not a daily occurrence," Haggag said the UNDP trains police officers on international human rights conventions, and is trying to convince police officers to solve cases using "legal and ethical means," instead of torture. Haggag told us he "doubts there is still torture against political prisoners." Staffers from the quasi-governmental National Council for Human Rights described the council's workshops for police officers where professors give lectures on human rights law and prisoner psychology.

But the same cables warn Washington and highest US officials that the above UNDP project is ineffective and that UNDP basically funds staffers of the Ministry of Interior of Egypt who were/are complicit in torture to give human rights presentations on behalf of UNDP:
NGO contacts have privately criticized the UNDP project as ineffective, complaining that it has banned credible human lawyers from giving lectures to the police because of their political opposition to the NDP, and instead invites MOI officials complicit in torture to give human rights presentations.

So Mubarak Killers were "successfully trained" from UNDP to "respect human rights" of peaceful demonstrators. The results 80 demonstrators killed !

WHO GAVE UNDP/HELEN CLARK THE MANDATE TO TRAIN POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES?

HOW DOES TRAINING POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES AROUND THE WOLRD QUALIFIES AS "DEVELOPMENT AGENDA"?

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