Dear All/Dear Milton,
In partial answer to your question from a Kenyan perspective:
Wikileaks played an important role in publishing a report by Kroll
Associates on corruption in Kenya and massive theft of assets
particularly by the Moi regime, which the Kenya government had tried
to suppress after having commissioned it in the fist wave of
anti-corruption activity in 2003. I think they can play an extremely
important role especially where access to official documents is
impossible or difficult.

See http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=98
"Kenyans would Vouch for Wikileaks, if We were asked"
and:
http://www.ethicsworld.org/publicsectorgovernance/corruptioninvestigations.php#moi

The link to the original Guardian story, where it first appeared,
seems to be broken.

Regards
Gladwell Otieno



On 26/10/2010, CorruptionWatchAruba <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday I was confronted by interested members of the local press in Aruba
> with an intriguing question.
>
> As corruption is such a pervasive and destructive issue in many developing
> and developed countries and whistle-blowers and human rights, environmental
> and anti-corruption activists are persecuted and manhandled in many
> countries how much of a case can be made for web sites like WikiLeaks to
> expose national, regional and international issues?
>
> If we omit military, conflict and national security issues and just stick to
> general human rights, environmental and anti-corruption issues does the
> WikLeaks concept help to further the three causes?
>
> I think this is a valid question and merits and answer from the
> anti-corruption circles
>
> I myself, who deals with all three issues could not provide a clear-cut
> answer to this question.
>
> Obviously the WikiLeaks concept strikes a cord with many a news media
> staffer for its boldness, directness and candor and indiscriminate exposure,
> yet I also sense that many reporters are somewhat aware of the uneasy
> boundaries between general interest and the security issues with the typical
> items exposed so far by WikiLeaks.
>
> Amnesty International made some remarks about the extent to which exposure
> is warranted and desirable.
>
> And the press being the press I feel we cannot leave this question
> unanswered.
>
> I would appreciate receiving your thoughts on this issue.
>
> Milton Ponson, President
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> (Rainbow Warriors International)
> Tel. +297 568 5908
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> UN Convention against Corruption
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