29131: Saint-Vil (comment) The Lancet Study in Context (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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

The bottom line remains that the Kolbe study published in The Lancet(
http://www.annpale.com/viewtopic.php?t=6358 ) has revealed some very
disturbing truths about the consequences of the 2004 coup d'état.

Lately, too many "human rights" organizations has allowed themselves to
be cought up in the anti-Lavalas bandwagon. By their pronouncements or by
their strategic silence, they helped the multinational coup machine to
underplay the level of REAL repression that was/is being waged against
those deemed too likely to still support Lavalas and/or Aristide.

There is a question of credibility at play here. If, as the study
suggests, there is evidence of a systematic program (using HPN, MINUSTAH
and others) by the post-coup, Uncle Tom Latortue regime imposed by the
foreign powers and their MRE associates to persecute the Lavalas base,
one must ask: who qualifies as "human" to these selective "human rights
organizations" that were active in Haiti over that period?

If, Tom Griffin could uncover the magnitude of these atrocities armed
with a simple camera in 2004-05
http://www.law.miami.edu/cshr/CSHR_Report_02082005_v2.pdf#search=%22tom%20griffi
n%20Miami%20school%20of%20Law%22 ), why did the many organizations
implanted in Haiti for so many decades fail to condemn in a timely manner
what everyone KNEW was happening - i.e.: the massacre of those considered
too attached to Lavalas. Indeed, it appears the orders from Washington
were clear. All subjects ought to obediently join the demonizatin of the
"former priest" now deemed "bad" by the empire or else, they will be
declared ANATHEMA.

Perhaps, one should pratice Sankofa (go back and fetch it) to understand
what is happening today.

There was once a Haitian President named Daniel Fignolé.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/leaders/fignole.htm

His support base was in Bélair. When he was overthrown after a few days
in the National Palace in 1957, Time Magazine wrote:

Quote:
"Cote li, cote li?" cried the black workers of Port-au-Prince last week,
tears in their eyes. But Daniel Fignole, their idol, could not tell them
where he was. He had gone. Nineteen days after he vaulted to power as
Provisional President, the silver-tongued mathematics professor, who
boasted he could unleash a "steam roller" of black supporters, fell
without a shot fired. He went meekly into exile, and was replaced by a
military junta.

Fanatic Daniel Fignole suffered the disability of excessive ambition.
Lunging too fast for power, he postponed the presidential elections
originally set for June 16, then maneuvered to get himself a full
six-year term without an election. He ordered the army to purge itself of
anti-Fignole officers, demanded commissions for his black civilian
partisans. Once he routed Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, the chief of
staff, out of bed at 2 a.m. because he wanted to talk.

One night last week, while the mob slept, the army struck. General
Kebreau's troops invaded the palace, forced Fignole to sign a letter of
resignation, later whisked him to Miami on an air force plane. Next
morning Kebreau went on the air and announced Haiti's seventh government
in six months: a three-man military junta, headed by himself, to rule—as
usual—until "fair and free elections" could be held.

For two days it was uncannily quiet, then at midnight the blacks hit back
with an animal roar. Propelled by a rumor that their Fignole had been put
to death, they burst out of the slums, put the torch to eight buildings,
sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed
the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and
machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at
bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince
were full.

From the Jun. 24, 1957 issue of TIME magazine (
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825027,00.html ) ....

Notice the pattern of blaming the coup victims for the coup and its
aftermath. Notice the similarities in the types of allegiances
established. In a country with 99% "blacks" what is the importance of
calling Fignolé's partisans "black supporters"? Does it suggest his
opposition is not also "black"? Yet, the so-called Haitian army blamed
for his overthrow is also composed of "black Haitians". Perhaps, there is
something the Time was not then allowed to say outright about the real
nature of the overthrow of Fignolé, just like today so many feel they
must thread very carefully when speaking about the crimes of the U.S.
empire and its stooges in Haiti.

The major difference between 1957 and 2004 is that after the CIA's army
in Haiti a.k.a. FADH blasted Bélair and massacred the population -
keeping the "blacks in their place" - as was also happening in the
mainland at the time...., that was that. Everything went back to "order".
But, in 2004, some of the "animal roar" continued on well after the
initial silencing operations had been launched. And (oh my god!) there is
no FADH to bring us back neatly to "order". Sure, there is Ravix,
Tatoune, Guy Phillipe and the other CIA payed stooges but, apparently
this time around they are not the only ones who are armed. And, for the
first time, things to not turn out the way they usually do. i.e. only the
"disposable" get disappeared. Instead, there appear to be many collateral
damages also within the ranks of the modern Affranchis (middle) class and
the untouchables. Something must have changed since Patrick James wrote:

Quote:
You have one section of the black population which is now aligned with
and making money with the rich. Not much, but more than they could make
as a farmer cutting mangoes. So now they have a gun and are in control.
They’re making a few bucks. The rich tell them to go out and take down
some village, shoot up a couple of people, chop their face off, leave
them in the street, and they’ll do it



http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1995/01/mm0195_10.html


Things must change in Haiti. The violence must stop. But, unless the
national and global APARTHEID system changes at the same time, generation
after generation, the FRAPH, FADH (BOPHA!) bulldozers will be sent
against Bélair, then agaisnt Cité Soleil, then against Cité Dread Wilmé,
then against Cité Titid, then against Cité Makandal.....these same
bulldozzers may soon be used against the hundreds (soon to be thousands)
of Africans landing as we speak on Canarie Island.....for much the same
reasons as those from Cité Soley sometimes find themselves in the pool of
Hotel Montana - if only for a day.

This ship cannot go on like this folks....Eventually, hopefully sooner
rather than too late, it will have to be understood that in truth and in
fact TOUT MOUN SE MOUN and NO ONE'S LIFE IS DISPOSABLE.

Amandla !

Jafrikayiti
«Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!»

(Brotherhood is as ancient as Mother Africa - L'entraide fraternel date
du temps où, tous, nous fûmes encore dans les entrailles de
l'Afrique-mère)

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