19573: erzilidanto: Urgent Action Needed. Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Erzilidanto@aol.com

Urgent Action Needed. Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered.

Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered. The duly
elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country at
gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under U.S and
French guard.

Yesterday, it is reported that, under U.S. marine escort the former
FRAPH/FAHD thugs rolled into Port-au-Prince.

Aristide's private residence has been trashed.

The Prime Minister's residence has been trashed.

The first order of business for these U.S. supported death squad leaders and
(Guy Philip, Jean Tatoune and Louis Jodel Chamblain) harden criminals was to
go to the National Penitentiary and forcibly break out all the 2000 prisoners
there.

Now these murderers have more murderers to help them terrorize Haiti.

Practically every building Aristide and the Haitian people built these last
10 years are being burned down and destroyed. Meanwhile the U.S. troops, French
troops, Canadian troops are protecting their own edifices in Haiti.
No one is protecting the more than 850 million investment per year hard
working Haitians of the Diaspora have invested in the security, development,
shelter and nurturing of their relatives, children and family in Haiti.

Last night these opposition thugs ran through the slums of Belaire, La Saline
and Cite Soleil, well known for its support of the elected President, who is
now a hostage of the U.S., and indiscriminately fired, killing countless
numbers, according to an independent reporter in Port-au-Prince.

The Lavalas Party has been threatened and warned to remain quiet and not
denounce the Coup D'etat and abduction of Aristide, his wife, a brother in law and
two security people from Haiti. Not to tell the people President Aristide did
not resign freely but at U.S. gunpoint and forced on an airplane against his
will.

The oppression and REPRESSION of democracy is as follows: Dissenters,
specifically Lavalas officials, are being told if Lavalas demonstrates in Haiti and
protests or defend their right to free speech and association, or for the
return of Aristide and against the opposition and their Jean Tatoune/Guy
Philippe/Louis Jodel Chamberlain triumvirate, then presumably the international
community, that is, U.S/ France/Canada along with the opposition they broker for, will
make sure that the Lavalas party is not allowed to participate in any
upcoming elections!

Moreover, Prime Minister, Yvonne Neptune is technically a prisoner in his
office. US/Euro soldiers surround the Prime Minister's building. He cannot leave
his office and his home has been ransacked.

>From these reports, it appears any good works towards justice in Haiti that
had flickered has been destroyed in one fell, U.S.-Coup D'etat swoop yesterday.
Supposedly a Triumvirate has been created, made up of 1). One member of the
International Community, 2) One member of the so-called opposition and 3) One
member of Lavalas. It is reported, this Triumvirate will, in turn, pick a 9- or
so, member council to work towards elections and governance. The Supreme
Court Justice has been appointed President of Haiti and it is rumored the former
Haitian army head, Herald Abraham is back in office calling all former army
soldiers back to their post!

According to some on-the-ground observers, Former Haitian military are right
now walking side by side with U.S. Marines and French and Canadian troops in
Haiti.

So many laws have been broken; I am not sure where to begin.

l. It is against the U.N. Charter, the OAS, The CARICOM charter to violently
overthrow a constitutionally elected President;

2. It is against all these above-mentioned charters and international law and
U.S. federal law to kidnap and take hostage, not only a President of a
sovereign country but his U.S. citizen wife and the brother and two security guards.
 If this operation goes up Bush, if he had anything to do with this covert
operation and abduction, we are talking about High Crimes and Misdemeanors, not
to mention that impeachment resolution should begin to be drafted right now.

3.  The 2004 US/French invasion of Haiti. It is against international law to
enter a sovereign country without an invitation. All the foreign troops,
French, U.S. Canadian, etc.  who invaded Haiti on February 29, 2004, to conduct and
maintains this crime-against-humanity-debacle are in violation of
international law and treaties and Haitian sovereignty.

4. Secretary Colin Powell, Roger Noreiga, U.S. Ambassador Foley and all those
directly or indirectly supporting the reign in Haiti of convicted criminals,
like Jean Tatoune, Guy Philippe, and Jodel Louis Chamblain and all their other
terrorist, and an unelected, platformless opposition, may be charged as
accomplices in the killings and slaughter of the Haitian people being murdered
right now in Haiti by these ex-soldiers and death squad leaders and possibly now,
their new prisoner recruits from the National Penitentiary.

5. The cover-up and/or current dismissal by the major news media and press of
President Aristide's abduction and forced resignation is violates all
journalistic ethics and code. It appear as a part and parcel of the State
Department's psychological warfare to repress free speech against this dastardly deed not
only in the U.S. but also in Haiti. For instance the fact that Guy Philippe
an accused DEA drug trafficker and accused Coup Detat leader under both Preval
and the Aristide administration, is today traveling with his own embedded AP
reporter is akin to Bin Ladin traveling around with his own embedded AP
reporter. It's evidenced certain mainstream media's outrageous and a depraved
indifference to the sufferings of the Black people of Haiti. It is almost as racists
and deplorable as that guest yesterday on George Stephanopoulos' ABC news show
who said the United States has a stake in Haiti "because we have to control
the flow of refugees and disease" into the U.S.

The media's treatment of the vast majority of Haiti's People plight and
struggle to live free and establish democracy is unimaginably callous and
non-factual, mainly playing into deep racists fears and stereotypes. Another instance
of reporting verbatim, without verification, state department positions is what
we read today, March 1, 2004, the New York Times about Haiti. The New York
Times reports that, for instance, South Africa refused Aristide asylum. Yet,
President Aristide talked this morning via telephone to Maxine Waters, Randall
Robinson and Charles Rangel. He said he want the Haitian people and the world to
know that he did not freely resigned. It was a Coup D'etat. U.S. Marines who
came to his house with Morino, a U.S. representative to the U.S. Ambassador
Foley and told him they were withdrawing his U.S. security details, that he had
to leave or face Guy Phillip who was being escorted into Port-au-Prince by
U.S. soldiers. Congresspersons, Waters, and Rangel and Randall Robinson, all
three, confirmed that the President and Mrs. Aristide said they were forced on an
airplane, at gunpoint, with U.S. and French soldiers guarding, that eventually
landed in the French/US defacto protectorate known as the Central Republic of
Africa. President Aristide said he was not allowed to call anyone, much less
call South Africa, or any nation and ask for asylum. He reiterated he did not
resign and that he was being held hostage surrounded by French and U.S.
soldiers in a place called the Chateau De Renaissance, in the Central Republic of
Africa.

Ezili Danto