13857: Saint-Vil - Time to Stop Resisting Haiti's Resistance (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>

Time to Stop Resisting Haiti’s Resistance
(by Jean Saint-Vil, November 2002)


As political violence appears to be growing in Haiti in the midst of
outrageous calls to overthrow of a democratically-elected government; As a
Bush administration denies being, once again, involved in efforts to
overthrow Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide; As many Haitians feel
powerless in front of the barrage of pre-coup lies which currently permeates
the international press coverage of Haiti, I invite those wishing to
understand what is really going on down there to do a little reading. It
just might help put all this craziness in proper context.

First, here are the basic FACTS OF THE DAY:

1)	President Aristide was duly elected by the people of Haiti on November
26, 2000 – he obtained his 5 year term fair and square.

2)	George W. Bush and many of his allies have tried and are continuing to
try covert (illegal) as well as overt (diplomatic) actions to destabilize
then overthrow President Aristide’s government.

3)	President Aristide has lost a lot of support in Haiti because of his
government’s mismanagement of public affairs.

4)	Progressive (majority of) Haitians feel trapped as many of them would
like to punish or reward Aristide and his party with their electoral
ballots. But powerful coup-plotting foreign and national forces have
successfully hijacked the country from its people – offering fratricidal
violence as a sole path out of the dangerous stalemate they have created in
the empovrished nation.

5)	There is racial as well as class solidarity between members of the
coup-plotting elites of Haiti, the U.S., Dominican Republic and Europe who
are hell bent on deposing Aristide before his full term expires normally on
February 7, 2006.

Now, to understand these basic facts of the day, one must take a look
Haiti’s history (SANKOFA - Go back and fetch it!).

Haiti’s is a history which can be accurately described to be a tale of
two-way resistance. On the one hand, the (majority of) people of Haiti are
resisting White Supremacy. On the other hand, white supremacy (supported by
peoples of all color and class, both consciously and unconsciously) is
resisting the people of Haiti’s stubborn determination to self-govern by
black majority rule.

This incredible, and seemingly never-ending saga of resistance, can be
summarized by the following FACTS:

The Republic of Haiti was created on January 1, 1804, following a revolt of
enslaved Africans who prevailed against the three dominant European
militaries of the time: France, England and Spain.

«This shattered the myth of white supremacy …. As punishment, Haiti has been
attacked, exploited, and vilified every since.» Stan Goff, former U.S.
soldier, author of Hideous Dream
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/184.html


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1. Resisting to Survive
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1492- early 1500’s: Original Taino population of island (over 1 million)
completely wiped out by Spanish invaders (Fouchard, Les Marrons de la
liberté (LML), 1972)

1499-1791: Africans brought to the island and subjugated to legalized,
state-sponsored racial slavery by Europeans (French Code Noir promulgated in
1685) – Europeans used torture, religion and murder to maintain the white
supremacist system. "Je fis attacher le sorcier et lui fis distribuer
environ 300 coups de fouet qui l'écorchèrent depuis les épaules jusque aux
genoux…Je fis mettre le sorcier aux fers après l'avoir fait laver avec une
pimentade" (I had the sorcerer held by a post and flogged with 300 lashes
that scorched him from his shoulder to his knees…then I had him fixed to
“the irons” after being washed with a mix of peppers) Father Labbat quoted
in Les Marrons de la liberté (1972), Jean Fouchard, page 112.

1776: Africans of Haiti used in French Army (among them, 12 year-old Henry
Christophe – later to become  King of Haiti) to fight British forces at
Savannah, Georgia  - thus, helping White Americans gain their independence
from England.

1791- 1803: On November 18,1803, Battle of Vertières won by Africans against
Napoléon Bonaparte’s large expedition to Haiti. The 12 year uprising of
Africans enslaved on the island culminates in successive and definitive
victories of the Africans over the armed forces of Britain, Spain and
France.

1804 (January 1): Haiti declares its independence and becomes the very first
nation on the continent to banish slavery. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s
liberator, offers Haitian citizenship to any freedom seeker who lands on
Haitian shores, including hundreds of White Polish men who were brought to
the island by Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

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2. Resisting Justice and Progress - Concerted Efforts by «White Nations» to
Isolate and Ruin Haiti
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1805: Calling for “Western” [white supremacist ] solidarity , the French
foreign minister Prince Charles Talleyrand wrote to U.S Secretary of State
James Madison, “The existence of a Negro people in arms, occupying a country
it has soiled by the most criminal acts, is a horrible spectacle for all
white nations.” The United States responds by banning trade with Haiti in
1806 and renewing its embargo in 1807 and 1809. (Bellegarde-Smith, Haiti:
The Breached Citadel (HBC), p 49)

1815-1816: Simon Bolivar visits Haiti twice and receives military assistance
for South American Liberation. In March 1816 Bolivar left Haiti with men,
money, munitions, weapons, and a small press for printing South American
revolutionary literature and the proclamation abolishing slavery. Bolivar
began by freeing his own 1500 slaves, Haiti’s only demand. Yet, Haiti’s
invitation to attend the Panama Congress of 1826 was withdrawn under U.S.
Pressure, despite the assistance Haiti had given to Latin American
independence movements (HBC, p50).

1825: French king Charles X crippled the young Black Republic of Haiti with
an outrageous “ransom for recognition” of 150 million Francs-or, which he
justified as “indemnity to former slave owners for loss of their property”.

[1830: Abolition of racial slavery in Canada]

1838: France recognizes Haitian independence with initial payments on
multi-million Francs-or ransom. In 1922, the last payment was made on the 60
million Francs-or eventually extorted from the Haitians by France. (In May
2001, France finally acknowledged the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Racial
Slavery to be crimes which it committed against humanity but still refuses
to return the ransom collected from Haiti, let alone pay reparations to the
descendants of Africans it enslaved).

[1848: France abolishes slavery on its claimed territories]

1853: French Admiral Duquesne threatens to bombard Port-au-Prince to restart
payments on the French ransom which had been stopped in 1852 by Haitian
Emperor Faustin Soulouque. The latter replied: “Je repousserai la force par
la force” (I will meet force with force), and Duquesne let the matter rest.
(Written in Blood, Heiln p199)

1857-1900: U.S.A. intervenes 19 times in Haitian affairs, often with
gun-boat diplomacy.

July1861: Spanish gun-boat aggression against Haiti – At issue: Haitian
support to Dominican generals Cabral and Sanchez who were resisting
attempted Spanish annexation of Dominican Republic. Spanish Admiral
Rubalcava collects $200,000 ransom and 21-gun salute from Haitian President
Fabre Nicholas Géffrard.

1861-1865: Spain annexes neighboring Dominican Republic by invitation of its
white and mulatto minority: Fearing a return of slavery on the island, Haiti
helps anti-Spanish forces to regain Dominican Republic’s independence. (HBC,
p183)

[1862: End of “legalized” racial slavery in the United States of America and
formal diplomatic recognition by that nation of the Republic of Haiti].

1870: U.S. gun-boat aggression against Haiti using flagship U.S.S. Dictator
(This same year, the 15th Amendment is adopted, finally giving Black males
the right to vote in the U.S.A) .

1872: German gun-boat aggression against Haiti. Commodore Basch collects
3000 Sterling Pounds from the Haitian government and defames Haitian flag
with German excrement.

1877: 	March: French gun-boat aggession against Haiti. At issue: resumption
of payments on the 1825 ransom – balance then re-estimated at 20 million
Francs-or.
December: Repeat of Spanish gun-boat aggression against Haiti. At issue:
Suspected Haitian assistance to rebels fighting to abolish slavery in Cuba.

August 1883: In the midst of popular riots in the capital city of
Port-au-Prince, diplomatic representatives of France, Britain, Germany,
Belgium, Spain, Holland, Norway and Sweden sign ultimatum threatening
Haitian President Lysius Féllicité Salomon of bombarding Haiti’s National
Palace.

1884: Spenser St-John, former British Consul-General in Haiti publishes
Hayti: Or the Black Republic in which Haiti is deemed “an island of
«Vaudoux» practicing cannibals”. His will be followed by a host of other
anti-Haiti, white supremacist publications like Where Black Rules White
(Prichard, 1910), in which the American author says of Haitians and of their
religion « the perpetuation of a cult so degrading must have its source deep
in the character of the race. Yet you find that these undoubted cannibals
can on occasion be both kind-hearted and hospitable. Perhaps the root of it
all lies in their squalid ignorance». Hollywood would pick-up the theme with
a string of “Zombie” pictures, starting in the 1930s.

1886-88: Legalised racial slavery finally abolished in Spanish and
Portuguese colonies (Cuba, Brazil)]

1890: First, using the diplomatic skills of Black abolitionist Frederick
Douglass, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, then using gunboat “diplomacy” with as
many as 7 warships, the U.S. attempts to force Haiti to lease away Môle St.
Nicholas as a naval base.  Haitian President Hyppolite citing his people’s
Constitution, responds negatively to all U.S. demands.

1897: (Affaire Luders) Repeated acts of German gun-boat aggression against
Haiti using warships S.M.S. Charlotte and Stein. (HBC, p184)

1915-1934: United States invades Haiti, seizes and expatriates its national
treasury and gold reserves, imposes a new constitution allowing property
ownership by Americans and dismissing the Haitian legislature from 1917 to
1930. Haiti-U.S accord on reestablishing Haitian Freedom signed in 1933 and
on August 15, 1934 all U.S. Marines left Haiti. (HBC, p184). As part of U.S.
legacy, the reins of political powers are strongly secured for the
anti-black, pro-American mulatto minorities on both sides of the island
(Haiti and Dominican Republic). During that period, as William Jennings
Bryan of the U.S. State Department could hardly control his surprise at
Haitians: "Dear me, think of it. Niggers speaking French.", the National
Geographic Magazine described life in Haiti with such words:  “while the
peasants thus took to the bush, the middle and upper class Haitians
gravitated to the seacoast towns, where they learned the art of living by
the expert exploitation, political and commercial, of the unthinking black
animals of the interior” (National Geographic Magazine, 1920: 497).

1937 (October): White Supremacist Dictator Raphaël Trujillo of neighbouring
Dominican Republic, benefiting of full support from his great friends U.S.
president F. D. Roosevelt and Haiti’s Mulatto president Sténio Vincent,
orders the massacre of as many as 30,000 Black Haitians in a fit of
anti-Haitian sentiment which also left countless Black Dominicans dead.

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3. Resisting Black Majority Rule on Both Sides of the Island – White
Supremacist Powers Offer Lip Service to Democracy, Tangible Support to
Dictators and Help Reinforce Racist Stereotypes
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1957: US Helps François Duvalier win fraudulent elections. (1958-1963): U.S.
Marine Corps mission trains Duvalier’s armed forces.  Thousands of Haitians
are murdered by Duvalier. During the 60s, lucky few seek exile in newly
liberated African states.

1960s: In U.S., Black freedom fighter Dr. Martin Luther King gunned down by
CIA. Several others who stand to denounce white supremacist policies like
racial segregation are murdered by the KKK, CIA or other U.S. government
forces. Civil right struggles in the U.S. coincide with continued and ever
increasing migration of Haitian exiles (fleeing Duvalier dictatorship)
towards the U.S.A., Canada, Africa and Europe.

1971: François Duvalier dies. U.S.  Administration supervises transfer of
power to his son, 19 year-old Jean-Claude Duvalier and trains new military
unit: the Leopards.

[1970s - 1980s: American and Canadian sex tourists carry AIDS to Haiti
(Farmer, 1994). In 1981, Haitian refugee tragedies and Florida landings
reach noticeable levels.]

1983: U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) contributes to worldwide
anti-Haitian propaganda with the infamous four H (4H) theory about AIDS;
namely that homosexuals as well as heroin addicts, hemophiliacs, and
Haitians were the most likely to have the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV). Haiti’s tourism industry takes fatal plunge and U.S. applies ever
more stringent anti-Haitian immigration policies. Finally, in 1985,
following widespread protest, the CDC admits it was absurd to make
nationality a biological or medical determinant and took Haitians off their
outrageous list.

1986: Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is deposed by popular uprisings. He
flees to Paris with millions of dollars in a U.S. Air Force transport plane.
French government pretends to accept him for a week only, on  temporary visa
– (in 2002, he still lives and spends his stolen fortune there). In Haiti,
power is assumed by Haitian Army but the people continue to demand
democratic elections.

1987: Haitian student hunger strike is organized to protest Vatican’s
decision to transfer popular liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide to
Rome.

1988-1990 Several U.S.-backed military dictatorships rise and fall, dodging
popular demand for free elections.

1990: Democratic elections are finally organized. U.S. opposes Jean-Bertrand
Aristide’s candidacy and support their “own man”, former World Bank
employee: Marc Louis Bazin. Following Aristide’s overwhelming victory in
these democratic elections, U.S. Ambassador Alvin Adams warns festive
Haitians with Kreyòl proverb “ Apre dans tanbou lou” (After the dance, drums
are heavy to carry).

1991 (September: 7 months after Aristide’ swearing in): Army officials now
known to have been on CIA payroll (Nairn, 1995) overthrew President Aristide
in a bloody coup d’état in which over 5000 Haitians perished. Former CIA
Director, Georges Bush Sr., becomes President of the USA. The Vatican is the
only state to officially recognize the de facto government established by
the military putchists. (See: Haiti's Nightmare The Cocaine Coup & The CIA
Connection by Paul DeRienzo, http://pdr.autono.net/haiti.html).

1992: Shocking Murder of Prominent Aristide Supporter and Campaign Financer
Antoine Izmery who revealed to the New-York Times that Jimmy Carter had
tried to get Aristide to concede the election before the first votes were
counted.  (Written in Blood, Heinl p735)
«The Bush and Clinton administrations expressed support for Aristide as
Haiti's elected president, but behind the scenes the junta had powerful
allies in the CIA and in the offices of conservative US Senators Jesse Helms
and Robert Dole.» (Everybody Needs Some Bodies Sometime (Haiti) - excerpted
from the book Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public
Relations Industry "The Torturers' Lobby" by John Stauber and Sheldon
Rampton)
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Public_Relations/TortLob_Haiti_TSIGFY.html

“Jesse Helms, a leading opponent of Aristide, brought CIA analyst Brian
Latell to Capitol Hill, to brief selected senators and representatives on
allegations that Aristide had been treated for mental illness. It turned out
that the time during which the CIA report alleges Aristide was treated at a
Canadian hospital falls within the same period that Aristide was studying
and teaching in Israel”.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/a.../helm-a31.shtml

«The CIA fabricated an attack on Aristide's character that fell apart when
it came under public scrutiny. The CIA director then revealed to a
congressional committee that his agency had retained on the payroll several
military officers who had overthrown the elected president» , from Haiti:
Success Under Fire, by James Morrell  http://www.us.net/cip/haiti01.htm

“In the spring of 1994, at the height of a campaign of murder and rape
orchestrated by FRAPH (Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti), a
terror group organized on behalf of Haiti's military, several  publications
received unauthorized copies of cables originating from the US. embassy-with
the im-primatur of U.S. ambassador Leslie Swing. "Haiti is culturally
violent,"  the cables declared, "rape was always accepted in Haitian society
and women are learning to report it now mainly for political gains."  From
How The Major U.S. Media Are Undermining Democracy by Jean Jean-Pierre

Fall 1994: After 3 years of “boat-people” landings on Florida shores,
international negotiations in the midst of world-wide protests, including
hunger strike by black activist Randall Robinson, the U.S. Army invades
Haiti on September 19, 1994 and, in the process, seized and expatriated
160,000 pages of sensitive documents then suspected to link the CIA with
murderers in Haiti.  After several broad-day assassinations of other key
Aristide associates (Lawyer Guy Malary, Father Jean-Marie Vincent) by the
FRAPH paramilitary, now confirmed to be linked to the CIA,  a U.S. Airforce
carrier finally brings President Aristide back to Haiti.

« The policy of dumping refugees back into Haiti or into Guantanamo became
untenable. Not only were more and more of them truly eligible for political
asylum, but there was a gross and offensive racism in barring black refugees
while letting in whites. Randall Robinson's twenty-seven day hunger strike
touched a chord among millions of black Americans and indeed all fair-minded
Americans». James Morrell in Haiti: Success Under Fire,
http://www.us.net/cip/haiti01.htm

STILL, little-known is the fact that Aristide’s return was confirmed - not
until he was forced to agree that 1) his 3 years of exile be considered as
part of his “5-year presidency” and 2) he signs the infamous Paris Accord of
August 1994, which was “negotiated” by the World Bank and the IMF– under
concerted pressures from several neo-colonial powers (U.S, France, Canada).
The Paris Accord called for the drastic reduction of tariffs and import
controls, an open foreign investment policy, and privatization – all,
policies that ran counter to the nationalist and popular mandate of
Aristide’s 1991 government.
« We'll have the banks, the national cooperative, the telephone company, the
electricity company-all strategic sectors- in the hands of multinational
corporations.»
« Aristide was like a prisoner of war in Washington. An accord signed under
such conditions could not be valid.»

Camille Chalmers, renowned Haitian economist in - Haiti's Latest Coup:
Structural Adjustment and the Struggle for Democracy, Multinational Monitor,
May 1997
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/IMF_WB/Haiti_StrucAdj_MNM.html
A jubilant former U.S Ambassador, Robert White, is inspired to declare to
the Boston Globe: "I think the best thing that has happened to Aristide and
his administration-in-exile is that they have had a crash course in
democracy and capitalism”

October 15, 1994, like a “subdued hostage” Jean-Bertrand Aristide is
returned to organize elections to find himself a suitable successor as
President of Haiti.

1994-1995: Much to the dismay of the U.S. Administration and its allies,
President Aristide disbands the Haitian Army, asks support for a national
disarmament program and adopts a foot-dragging attitude towards
implementation of the Paris Accord.
U.S. Army in Haiti helps several paramilitary killers escape Haitian
justice. Most notorious among them, admitted CIA operative Emmanuel (Toto)
Constant who moved to New-York (where he resides to this day !) and
exhibitionist torturer Prosper Avril (now jailed in Haiti).

«The history of the abuse of Haiti, which in our lifetime has become a
tragedy, is also the story of Western civilization's racism.» Eduardo
Galeano in "Haiti, Despised by All", December 1996

1995-96: Haitian population elects as president, Aristide’s ally and former
Prime Minister René Garcia Préval. Millions of dollars of “international
aid” promised “to help rebuild Haiti” at the time of the 1994 “return of
Democracy” never materialize. With much political maneuvering, President
Préval begins to implement the Structural Adjustment Program imposed by the
neo-colonial powers while taking a few verbal jabs at the still hostile
Port-au-Prince diplomatic corps (see January 1, 1999 independence day speech
http://www.haiti.org/rp1janvye.htm). Préval organizes legislative and
presidential elections whose results are contested by a
nationally-insignificant but internationally-propped-up opposition. Amid,
the ensuing electoral “crisis”, President Préval manages to complete his
full term in office.

« Haiti has been plunged into one of the gravest crises of its history.  The
crisis began with the implementation of the Paris accord by the Aristide
government. The accord, it seems, was one of the conditions imposed on the
Lavalas leader by the so-called friends of Haiti, notably the United States,
Canada and France, for restoring him to power.»
Sony Esteus, director of programming for SAKS, an organization which
supports community-based radio in Haiti. In Haiti: The Crisis Persists,
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/esteus31.htm
1997: American Christian Pastors lead Haitian counterparts to “Bwa Kay
Iman”, site of the 1791 uprising, in an evangelical crusade to “convert
Boukman (slained leader of 1791 uprising) and Haiti to Christianity - taking
them away from Satan in the name of Jesus!”. President René Préval, obliged
to intervene to cool down rising tensions of religious violence, declares
Bwa Kay Iman, a national park. To this day, some American «Pastors» and
their cronies are using the same incredibly racist tactics as their 19th
century European ancestors to collect money in the name of “bringing Jesus
to a Satanic Black people». See: www.bli.org.

2000: Once again, the Haitian population elects Jean-Bertrand Aristide to
the presidency of their country, as Republican candidate George W. Bush
becomes President of the United States. American right wing agencies, the
International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED), which openly opposed Aristide’s election, provide
assistance to Convergence Democratique (CD), a 15-party opposition coalition
which declares the elections fraudulent and, in challenge of Aristide’s
legitimacy, names its own alternative president while some of its members
(CD) bluntly declare their intention to violently overthrow Aristide with
assistance of the CIA and the disbanded Haitian Army – for a second time
around.   « The most determined of these men, with a promise of anonymity,
freely express their desire to see the U.S. military intervene once again,
this time to get rid of Aristide and rebuild the disbanded Haitian army.
"That would be the cleanest solution," said one opposition party leader.
Failing that, they say, the CIA should train and equip Haitian officers
exiled in the neighboring Dominican Republic so they could stage a comeback
themselves.» Haiti Torn by Hope and Hatred As Aristide Returns to Power by
Edward Cody (Washington Post, February 2, 2001)

2001 : Two murderous armed attacks against Haiti, arriving by way of the
Dominican Republic took place on July 28 and December 17. Such actions were
predicted as early as February 1996, in a detailed (MUST READ) report by
Andrew Reding titled: «Haiti: An Agenda for Democracy»,  in which one can
read “much of the CIA’s old network, including its highest-ranking member,
Michel François, remains at large on Hispaniola, possibly plotting a
comeback”.

http://www.worldpolicy.org/americas/carib/haiti96.html#cia

Incredibly, the U.S. and the OAS declared that these attacks against the
Haitian government were not coup attempts. Instead [to further frustrate the
Haitian people and her government], they join the European Union in
demanding that, Haiti’s government pays multi-million dollar reparations to
its “opposition” for victims and loss of property it suffered during the
popular unrest that followed the Dec 17th attack.

Furthermore, the same neo-colonial nations, members of a self-appointed
conglomerate calling itself “Friends of Haiti” within the OAS, insist that
all “aid” or loans to the Government of Haiti shall be suspended until a
political compromise is reached between the duly elected government and its
foreign-backed opponents.

As a matter of fact, they hold hostage $500 million in international aid and
loans to the Haitian government, including loans from the Inter-American
Development Bank earmarked for education, healthcare and infrastructure
projects, such as potable water. Outrageously, Haiti is now required to pay
arrears payments and credit commissions on loans that it has not received.
Many legal experts believe that the IDB faces possible legal exposure for
failing to honor signed contracts with the Haitian Government.

Meanwhile, the dire socio-economic conditions of a ruined country coupled
with the political and psychological destabilisation that the people of
Haiti (which dared again to elect a government on its own) have had to
endure – AND the multiple errors, faults, concessions (Structural
Adjustment, Privatization, Creation of Free Zones) and outright
disappointments caused by a weakened and overwhelmed Aristide government –
are giving rise to sporadic outbursts of violence that are dangerously
reminiscent of the days just prior to the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

2002 : As people world-wide are becoming more and more fed-up with the
blatant racism of powerful neo-colonial nations towards Haiti, conflicts
start to boil openly within the OAS between Black-led CARICOM nations and
several Latin-American nations who are sympathetic to Haiti and White-led
former colonial powers and colonies.

In the U.S, long-time allies of the Haitian people, such as the
Congressional Black Caucus and several progressive Whites, denounce the
illegal U.S. and European-led embargo against Haiti. To this effect, the
Congressional Black Caucus tables Resolution 382 «New Partnership for Haiti»
in the U.S. Congress.

They raise their voices to indicate how the racist anti-Haiti sanctions
violate the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter, the World Health Organization
Constitution, the Convention on the Rights of Children, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties
of States.

"The U.S. government is blocking aid to Haiti in order to expand the
influence of a single political party that is supported by less than four
percent of the Haitian electorate."
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressional Black Caucus

« Haiti needs help, not unmerited manipulation. »

Larry Birns and Michael Marx McCarthy Washington-based Council on
Hemispheric Affairs

“A lot of the people with whom I live – they're from central Haiti – point
out the similarity between this embargo and that imposed on the Haitian
people by the United States after their revolution made them, in 1804, the
first independent black republic in the world. The United States refused to
recognize the new Republic of Haiti for some 60 years – until 1862 – in
large part because of the objections from U.S. slaveholding states.“

Dr. Paul Farmer In December 2001 interview with The Haiti Bulletin, A
Ross-Robinson & Associates Publication. Dr. Farmer is Professor of Medicine
and Anthropology at Harvard University. This internationally-respected
health expert established a clinic in Haiti in the early 1980's and has
remained an active practitioner in the health care delivery system of that
country.

Meanwhile, right-wing Republicans maintain pressure on the OAS to vote one
resolution after another unfavorable to the Haitian government. Prompting
the highly-respected Council on Hemispheric Affairs to conclude:«The
international wing of the Republican Party (IRI) and Bush’s White House
appear to be conspiring against the hemisphere’s poorest nation».
http://www.coha.org/Press_Releases/02-15-Haiti.htm

Many are beginning to see in this latest page of the saga of the Haitian
people, the dirty fingerprints of a powerful international network of white
supremacists, fomenting civil unrest in Haiti as was the case during the
19th and 20th centuries.

See also: www.washingtonpost.com (“Why Do We Punish The Haitian People?” by
Tracy Kidder) www.haiti-progres.com, www.windowsonhaiti.com,
www.haitienmarche.com, www.discoverhaiti.com, www.haitiwebs.com ,
http://www.coha.org


The Rwandan Genocide cannot be undone. Will the Haitian one be stopped on
time?

Jafrikayiti
«Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!»
http://www.i-port.net/sd-in-j/


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