Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!

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When Haiti Was Free - Video Evidence of Media Lies (A Proposed HLLN Documentary) by Ezili Danto for Haitian Perspectives and the FreeHaitiMovement, May 14, 2008
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Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti by Ezili Danto, May 27, 2008
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Economic proposals that make sense for the reality of Haiti - The Western economic model doesn't fit an independent Black nation by Ezili Danto , May 23, 2008
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Ezili Danto's counter-narrative to the Associated Press's current Neocolonial Narrative in "Haiti's tourism dreams deferred by riots"

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Hope in Humiliation: HLLN’s analysis of May 18, 2006 and the Inaugural of President Rene Preval by Marguerite Laurent

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On distractions - How the social scientists' manipulate information to keep a right wing agenda in Haiti going and to continue imposing starvation on Haiti : The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the masses
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"...The latest Save the Children report, which concentrated on abuse in Ivory Coast, Sudan and Haiti, found evidence of "significant levels" of abuse in emergencies, much of it unreported. It cited cases of children as young as six trading sex for food and pitiful amounts of money, and pointed to the filming of child pornography and sexual slavery. Orphans were particularly at risk, it said.

David Mepham, Save the Children's director of policy, said a small number of people were carrying out the abuse, and no agency was immune from the problem.

In Haiti, troops associated with the UN department of peacekeeping operations were identified as a particular source of abuse. There are also allegations against civil humanitarian workers, international NGOs and religious groups..". (See, Q&A - Child abuse by aid agency staff)
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"...Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries.." (See, Charity: Aid workers raping, abusing children)

Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries
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Charity: Aid workers raping, abusing children By Stephanie Busari
For CNN

* Story Highlights
* Aid workers and UN peacekeepers are sexually abusing vulnerable children
* Children as young as 6 have been forced to trade food for sex and raped
* Charity: A grotesque abuse of authority and violation of children's rights


LONDON, England (CNN) -- Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries, a leading European charity has said.

Children as young as 6 have been forced to have sex with aid workers and peacekeepers in return for food and money, Save the Children UK said in a report released Tuesday.

After interviewing hundreds of children, the charity said it found instances of rape, child prostitution, pornography, indecent sexual assault and trafficking of children for sex.

"It is hard to imagine a more grotesque abuse of authority or flagrant violation of children's rights," Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children UK, said.

In the report, "No One To Turn To" a 15-year-old girl from Haiti told researchers: "My friends and I were walking by the National Palace one evening when we encountered a couple of humanitarian men. The men called us over and showed us their penises.

"They offered us 100 Haitian gourdes ($2.80) and some chocolate if we would suck them. I said, 'No,' but some of the girls did it and got the money."

Save the Children says almost as shocking as the abuse itself, is the "chronic under-reporting" of the abuses. It believes that thousands more children around the world could be suffering in silence.

According to the charity, children told researchers they were too frightened to report the abuse, fearful that the abuser would come back to hurt them and that they would stop receiving aid from agencies, or even be punished by their family or community.

"People don't report it because they are worried that the agency will stop working here, and we need them," a teenage boy in southern Sudan told Save the Children.

The charity's research was centered on Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, but Save the Children said the perpetrators of sexual abuse of children could be found in every type of humanitarian organization at all levels.

Save the Children is calling for a global watchdog to tackle the problem and said it was working with the U.N. to establish local mechanisms that will allow victims to easily report abuse.

"We are glad that Save the Children continues to shed a light on this problem. It actually follows up on a report that we did in 2002 with Save the Children. I think every population in the world has to confront this problem of exploitation and abuse of children," said Ron Redmond, chief spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland.

"The United Nations has a zero-tolerance policy. It's one that UNHCR takes very, very seriously. In refugee camps, we have implemented very strong reporting mechanisms so that refugees can come forward to report any abuses or alleged abuses."

In 2003, U.N. Nepalese troops were accused of sexual abuse while serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Six soldiers were later jailed.

A year later, two U.N. peacekeepers were repatriated after being accused of abuse in Burundi, while U.N. troops also were accused of rape and sexual abuse in Sudan.

Last year, the U.N. launched an investigation into sexual abuse claims in Ivory Coast.

The vast majority of aid workers were not involved in any form of abuse or exploitation, but in "life-saving essential humanitarian work," Save the Children's Whitbread said.

But humanitarian and peacekeeping agencies working in emergency situations "must own up to the fact that they are vulnerable to this problem and tackle it head on," she said.

The aid agency said it had fired three workers for breaching its codes and called on others to do the same. The three men were dismissed in the past year for having had sex with girls aged 17 -- which the charity said is not illegal but is cause for loss of employment.

Other UK charities said they supported Save the Children's call for a global watchdog.

"Oxfam takes a zero-tolerance approach to sexual misconduct by its aid workers. All our staff across the world are held accountable by a robust code of conduct," Jane Cocking, Oxfam charity's humanitarian director said.
"We support Save the Children's calls for a global watchdog. We will do all we can to stamp out this intolerable abuse."
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Haitian Riches
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/sfbayview.html#riches

Continuing the discussion of Media Lies:When Haiti Was Free - Video evidence of media lies
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Q&A: Child abuse by aid agency staff By James Sturcke, Guardian.co.uk, May 27, 2008

Is this the first time evidence of child abuse by aid agency workers has come to light?

No. For years, there have been anecdotal accounts of abuse. In 1995, UNHCR guidelines specifically acknowledged that international aid workers were implicated in sexual violence against refugees.

There followed a spate of abuse reports from organisations such as Human Rights Watch. In 2002, a joint report by the UNHCR and the charity Save the Children claimed child abuse was endemic in refugee camps, highlighting allegations against 67 workers and 42 agencies involving 40 victims. CNN also reported on the subject.

A 2006 Save the Children report said up to half of Liberian children were selling sex to wealthy men, among them UN peacekeepers and aid agency staff.

What is the nature of the abuse?

The latest Save the Children report, which concentrated on abuse in Ivory Coast, Sudan and Haiti, found evidence of "significant levels" of abuse in emergencies, much of it unreported. It cited cases of children as young as six trading sex for food and pitiful amounts of money, and pointed to the filming of child pornography and sexual slavery. Orphans were particularly at risk, it said.
David Mepham, Save the Children's director of policy, said a small number of people were carrying out the abuse, and no agency was immune from the problem.

In Haiti, troops associated with the UN department of peacekeeping operations were identified as a particular source of abuse. There are also allegations against civil humanitarian workers, international NGOs and religious groups.

Last year, Save the Children investigated 15 allegations of abuse against its workers, all from the countries involved; it proved four of them, and the staff were dismissed.

Why is awareness of the problem poor?

The chronic underreporting of abuse continues, Save the Children reports. Children do not know how to report abuse, and fear retaliation from the abuser or the withdrawal of aid. Some cultures demonstrate acceptance of, or resignation to, abuse, according to the charity; there is also fear of stigmatisation and lack of faith in a response.

The latter was particularly pertinent, the report said: of 856 allegations of abuse against UN staff between 2004 and 2006, only 324 had been resolved within a year. Reasons for this included international agencies seeing abuse as a local matter. Meanwhile, local authorities felt powerless to act against international organisations, and often lacked evidence.

"Many UN agencies and NGOs working here feel they cannot be touched by anyone," an aid worker in Ivory Coast told researchers.

What has been done?

Mepham said Save the Children had established "rigorous procedures", which included background checks on all local workers, and the setting up of child protection clubs to provide training on children's rights and encourage community participation in decision-making.

In 2006, a high-level conference attended by the then UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, reaffirmed the commitment for action. The UN has also produced the secretary general's bulletin on special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse

Aid agencies have also been moving to adopt principles established in the Keeping Children Safe guidelines.

What more needs to be done?

Today's Save the Children report repeated the demand of its 2002 predecessor that an international watchdog be established to evaluate efforts to tackle the problem and report on progress made.

The UN, as lead aid agency in many disaster zones, should routinely set up a centre staffed by skilled adults where children can report abuse. "If we can have structures to report abuse in our countries, it is perfectly possible to do so in other places. It is a question of priorities," Mepham said.

The author of the 2002 report, Asmita Naik, today said she was "shocked" that the latest findings suggested little progress in the past six years.

"Today's report is almost identical to the one I wrote six years ago. They describe a lot of policy and procedures and there is no doubt there has been a lot of talking but nothing on the ground seems to be changing," said Naik.

She added that any watchdog needed to be independent from the UN and have clout. She called for more penalties both for the perpetrators of abuse and the organisations that hire paedophiles.



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UN peacekeepers 'abusing children'
Aljazeera, May 27, 2008

Children from the age of six are being traded for food, money, soap and mobile phones in war zones and disaster areas, according to a report by a London-based charity.

A child's drawing depicts their experience at the hands of peacekeepers [Brendan Bannon/Save the Children]

Save the Children said action was needed after its researchers found "widespread" evidence that children in the Ivory Coast, Sudan and Haiti were being harmed.

The charity said an international watchdog should be set up to look at the alleged abuse by aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers.

Jasmine Whitbread, the charity's chief executive, said: "It is hard to imagine a more grotesque abuse of authority or flagrant violation of children's rights."

"This research exposes the despicable actions of a small number of perpetrators who are sexually abusing some of the most vulnerable children in the world, the very children they are meant to protect."

In a written statement on Tuesday, the UN secretary general said he was deeply concerned by the report's findings.

Ban Ki-Moon said the UN was committed to training and monitoring civilian staff, and working with troop and police contributing countries, to ensure all categories of UN personnel are trained in - and held accountable for - the highest standards of conduct.

'Endemic failures'

The charity said "endemic failures" in responding to official reports of the abuse were letting down the victims and that better reporting mechanisms should be introduced.

Whitbread said that the UN as well as humanitarian and aid agencies have made important commitments to tackling the problem in recent years.

But she said most had failed to turn their promises into action.

She called for all agencies working in emergency areas, including her own charity to "own up to the fact that they are vulnerable to this problem and tackle it head on".

The UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) was said to be the group most likely to be responsible for abuse.

Save the Children said there had been 15 claims against its staff and partners last year, of which three were upheld.

Nick Birnback, a UNPKO spokesman, said it was "entirely unacceptable" that those sent to help the most vulnerable are instead causing grievous harm.

"Clearly a lot more has to be done," he told BBC radio but he rejected allegations that the problem was widespread and those responsible were getting away with it.

"The vast majority of UN peacekeepers all over the world, of which we have over 100,000 now, serve with honour and courage in very difficult situations and don't engage in this unacceptable behaviour," he said.

'Zero tolerance'

The reputation of UN peacekeepers has been tarnished in the past by cases of sexual abuse against women, notably in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ivory Coast and Haiti.

In November last year, the UN said that more than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were to be sent home over charges that they paid for sex while stationed in Haiti.

In 2005, the world body recommended that the soldiers involved be punished, their salaries frozen and a fund set up to help any women or girls made pregnant.

The UN's "zero tolerance" policy towards sexual misconduct includes a "non-fraternisation" rule barring them from sex with locals.

It was brought in after revelations in December 2004 that peacekeepers in the DRC were involved in the sexual abuse of 13-year-old girls in exchange for eggs, milk or cash sums of one dollar.

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BRIEFING: Haiti's image of fear 'a big myth' to some, March 4, 2008, The Washington Times, By Reed Lindsay - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —

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Des membres d'ONG abusent d'enfants dès l'âge de six ans, selon Save the Children

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKKYxvlguTe3FRcj-ZkWtKHlBzyA

LONDRES, May 27 (AFP) — De nombreux enfants, parfois âgés de six ans seulement, vendent des faveurs sexuelles contre de la nourriture, du savon ou des téléphones portables à des membres d'organisations non gouvernementales, affirme l'ONG Save The Children dans une étude publiée mardi.

"Cette enquête met au jour les actes ignobles d'un petit nombre de personnes qui abusent sexuellement de certains des enfants les plus vulnérables au monde, ces mêmes enfants qu'ils sont censés protéger", a commenté la directrice générale pour le Royaume-Uni de Save the Children, Jasmine Whitbread.

L'enquête était basée sur des témoignages de centaines d'enfants, en Côte d'Ivoire, au Soudan et en Haïti.

L'ampleur des sévices est "significative" , a souligné l'organisation basée à Londres, qui a reconnu être touchée comme beaucoup d'autres ONG. Save The Children a réclamé en conséquence la mise en place d'un système permettant de détecter ces sévices et de leur donner une réponse appropriée.

"Il est difficile d'imaginer un abus de pouvoir plus évident ou une violation flagrante des droits de l'enfance", a déploré Mme Whitbread.

"Ces dernières années, l'ONU, la communauté internationale ainsi que les agences humanitaires se sont engagées à s'attaquer au problème mais, même si ces engagements sont bien accueillis, dans la plupart des cas, les déclarations de principe et les bonnes intentions doivent encore se concrétiser par une action internationale décisive et concertée", a-t-elle estimé.

La "vaste majorité" des travailleurs humanitaires ne sont "bien entendu" pas impliqués dans des sévices sexuels ou l'exploitation d'enfants, a-t-elle souligné.
"Cependant, l'ensemble des agences humanitaires ou de maintien de la paix travaillant dans les situations d'urgence, dont Save the Children Royaume-Uni, doivent reconnaître qu'elles sont vulnérables et prendre le problème à bras-le-corps" , a ajouté la directrice.

Le porte-parole du Département de l'ONU des opérations de maintien de la paix, Nick Birnback, a estimé ces cas de sévices "totalement inacceptables" .

"Il est évident qu'il faut en faire beaucoup plus", a-t-il déclaré sur la BBC. "La question est de mettre au point des mécanismes permettant d'assurer une impunité zéro et une complaisance zéro", a-t-il déclaré.

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Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice and families now go hungry by Coco McCabe, Oxfam, June 3, 2008

Once almost self-sufficient, Haiti now imports 80 percent of the rice it consumes. A dramatic cut in import tariffs lead to a drop in national rice production.

Judith Alexandre, a single mother, lives with her two children in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and like a lot of other families there they have only one choice when it comes to managing the dramatic increase in food prices: They skip meals.

Breakfast is no longer part of her children's morning routine. Alexandre can't afford it. Most of what she earns as a street vendor in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince she was already spending on food for her family. But the steep rise in the cost of rice, a Haitian staple, is pricing Alexandre and her family out of regular meals.

Less than 20 years ago, the country was nearly self-sufficient when it came to rice production. But in 1995, when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund cut import tariffs on rice from 50 percent to 3 percent, cheap subsidized rice from the US began to flood into the country. Urban consumers benefitted for a while from the low-cost imports, but they caused national rice production to plummet. Today, Haiti is now importing 80 percent of the rice it consumes—just as world prices have doubled.

More than half the country's population is malnourished, and more than 80 percent of the rural population lives below the poverty line. Rising prices provoked riots in several Haitian cities earlier this spring and forced the resignation of the country's prime minister.

'If people are hungry, they have no stake in stability,' said Hedi Annabi, the UN special representative in Haiti. 'They will be ready for anything – for anarchy – because they have nothing to safeguard or to fight for.'
While the entire country is affected, cities – where the majority of people live – are especially hard hit.

Agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the Haitian workforce, is one of the areas most affected by trade liberalization policies. An estimated 830,000 jobs in Haiti have been lost in recent years, primarily in agriculture.

What is Oxfam doing?

In the capital, Port-au-Prince and the town of Jacmel in the southeast, Oxfam is helping families hardest hit by the rising food prices. Working through local partners, Oxfam is supporting subsidized community restaurants, school canteens, and helping parents pay off debts to schools. Cash-for-work community clean up activities are also planned for several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince.

In rural areas in the north of the country, Oxfam is organizing a cash-for-work canal cleaning project, improving and diversifying crops and vegetables, and improving market links for small farmers.

It is through the community restaurant that Alexandre has found some relief from her hardship.

'I am the sole provider for my children,' she said. 'Their father dies a year ago and now I am alone. If he was here, it would be much easier to manage.'

For just 13 cents, Alexandre and her children can now buy a daily subsidized hot meal at one of eight community restaurants supported by Oxfam.

'It's unthinkable that I would be able to buy a meal for my kids for 5 gourdes (13 cents),' says Alexandre, smiling. 'It means that every day I have been able to save a little bit of money for other things. Now not all of my money must go on buying food.'

Run by a local organization, the restaurants provide immediate relief to those families hit hardest by rising food prices. They are open from 10 a.m. to noon four days a week, and serve up to 200 meals a day, ranging from cornmeal and fish to bouillion, a hearty Haitian vegetable stew.

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An Unbroken Agony -
Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
http://www.randallrobinson.com/
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On distractions - How the social scientists' manipulate information to keep a right wing agenda in Haiti going and continue to impose starvation on Haiti

Ezili Danto's counter narrative: On distractions and manipulation of information - The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the masses
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Recommended HLLN Link:
Video-Humanitarians and Aids workers raping and abusing children in Haiti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKYfrSollc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAXq3jy3A

Ezili Danto's Note: The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the masses
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Manipulation: Stay AWAKE folks. Pay very careful attention to what's happening in Haiti right now and what the media and neocolonial manipulators are telling you is news. Let's take a quick survey of the past month or so: First we get the news on food rights in Haiti. Then, comes the news that Haiti fear and violence-prone image is a myth and that Dominican Republic's murder rate is four times higher, et al. Then, there's news of UN and Humanitarian workers raping and abusing Haitians and Haitian minors.

So of course that has to be countered fast and in a hurry. So, the pendulum has swung in no time and the "insecurity issue" is back and kidnapping and thus the "violent Haitians" are back on the front burner and is the ISSUE of the hour!.
In the past four years, in December and at the end of May, the "kidnapping" tends to get more in Haiti. It seems to be turned on or off, at will, by the powers that be. Also, the "kidnapping" increases normally "happens" just when negative information on the Internationals' role in Haiti makes the news to distract the fickle public and tuck them back into the racist stereotypes. Somehow, horrible behaviors of the Internationals, must be forgotten, obfuscated, muted. (i.e.: Video-Humanitarians and Aids workers raping and abusing children in Haiti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKYfrSollc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAXq3jy3A, and US fraudulent "free trade" destroyed Haitian production and Haiti's food sovereignty. See, "30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?" )

No one questions that Haiti has MORE police and soldiers on its territory than its ever had before, so why can't they control the crime - uhmmm, "instability? " Especially since its less than most of the other nations in the Caribbean? Why is kidnapping worst under UN occupied Haiti, then it EVER was when Haiti had a democratically elected Aristide or Preval free government? Why does the kidnappings (especially of children) seem to be worst in December and May and also just when the UN mandate is in need of being RENEWED? Why is no one concerned about the police and UN complicity in Haiti's most organized kidnapping rings? Especially with UN soldiers from countries where kidnapping by officials and their paramilitary arms have been a long running income stream tradition. Something unheard of in Haiti, until the "peacekeepers" came in 2004.

Right now folks, pay careful attention.

And ask, ask, and ask: How did the conversation on Haiti get switched, so fast, from "The US destroyed Haitian food sovereignty,...the UN is raping and molesting Haitian children... to this sudden, coming-down-from-the-Hills-preoccupation with Haiti's "instability, kidnappings and insecurity????." Is the time to renew the UN mandate at hand, again? Is the myth of Haiti's high violence rate, which the UN just said was a myth, a reality now? (See, Haiti's violent image is an outdated myth, insist UN peacekeepers ; BRIEFING: Haiti's image of fear 'a big myth' to some, and Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti.)

Uhmmm...Is it time for the Haitian Hills to sing again the praises of the UN? The UN that's raping, molesting, keeping the repugnant international NGO's in a job and keeping the "black hoards" from inclusion into their own countries rule? Hello???? Inquiring minds want to know! (See, Thousands march to protest kidnapping in Haiti, Reuters, June 4, 2008.) The life of the rich child cannot be more important and relevant than the life of the Haitian masses, or that of the poor child being abused, raped and molested by UN soldiers and humanitarian aid workers, there in Haiti to maintain the rule of the elite and corporate oligarchs. All Haitian life is equally important, equally endowed with God-given human rights, and should not be tortured, abused, incarcerated and destroyed, at the will of criminals and the so-called "humanitarian aid workers" or UN "peacekeepers. "

Why have the Preval government and UN authorities done nothing in the case of the disappearance of Fondasyon Trant Septanm founder, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine? Lovinsky was disappeared in Haiti on August 12, 2007? Where is Lovinsky? (See also, Free Lovinsky, page two). Has he been "rendered" - militarily kidnapped as another sort of US Haiti "pacification" program because he spoke against the two Bush coup d'etats in Haiti, spoke out against the re-establishment of the bloody foreign-supported Haitian army and the corporate oligarchs' current UN occupation? All Haitians, should be asking "Where is Haitian human rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine?" Not just the poor masses he defended and gave his life to give voice to. (See, The July 28, 2007 declaration of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine's Fondasyon Trant Septanm (in Kreyol), by Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Perspective, July 29, 2007; Lovinsky Pierre Antoine on the Visit of Ban Ki Moun to Haiti (in French); and, Who benefits from silencing and eliminating Lovinsky Pierre Antoine? - HLLN continues its coverage and analysis of the abduction of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine in Haiti by Ezili Dantò.) Why didn't the Haitian Hills take to the streets with the masses when they took to the streets demanding a stop to kidnappings and the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine? All Haitian life is important and sacred. The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the poor masses.

The victims of the UN soldiers on July 2005, deserve justice. The Gran Ravin massacre victims of 2005 and 2006 deserve justice. The victims of UN and Humanitarian aid workers' rapes, molestations, and abuse, deserve justice and reparations. Just as the parents and family of Jacque Roches and 16-year-old schoolboy, Karim Xavier Gaspard deserve justice. All Haitian life is important and sacred. The mother, parents, family and friends of Abdias Jean, a journalist from Village de Dieu, who was arrested by MINUSTHA and summarily executed by the police feel the same pain and outrage as the mother, parents, family and friends of Jacques Roches and Karim Xavier Gaspard. Likewise for the mothers, parents, family and friends of the 27 unarmed demonstrators returning home on February 28, 2005 and reported murdered by police in Haiti behind UN firepower protection. 22-year old Sonia Romelus and her two young children - Stanley (4-years old) and Nelson Romelus (one-years old) - were shot dead, as they slept in their beds by the UN, on July 6, 2005. They deserve justice just like the parents of Karim Xavier Gaspard. Pain is pain. Justice is required in all these situations.

(See: Bush Bloodbath Brought to Haiti: Coup D'etat Massacres, Victims and Human Rights Abuses- Matters to be Investigated by International Tribunal; Demand justice for the Site Soley victims - Remembering July 6, 2005 and the UN massacre of innocent civilians from Site Soley: Demand UN soldiers stop killing innocent Haitian civilians and brutalizing the Haitian public; Demand Justice for the UN victims from Site Soley (also in Kreyol)).

The conversation on Haiti cannot logically and legitimately, arbitrarily and capriciously be switched, at will, to the International's mythical "violent, fearsome Haitians" again! The people's hunger and suffering is not a SIDE ISSUE. (Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice and families now go hungry ; Haitian food crisis sending refugees to the sea; 20 Haitians bodies found near Bahamas.)

The ISSUE for the Haitian masses right now is, not who will be the next Prime Minister of UN-occupied Haiti, or about this manufactured- on-demand kidnapping. NO. The primary issue is Haiti wants its sovereignty BACK. Its people released from neoliberalism' s clutches, its national production invested into and its food sovereignty restored. The imposed starvation on Haiti MUST STOP. The UN occupation must go. Haitians want to be the consumers of their own produce and self-sufficient and sovereign. The protective tariffs on foreign imported rice, must stop. The dumping of food in Haiti by "charities" must cease.

The UN victims of rape, murder, and molestation, afforded JUSTICE and reparations. The Haitian victims of humanitarian aid workers, of foreign priests and holly rollers, demand justice and reparations and for these NGO's to be exposed, their employees prosecuted. The Haitian people want safety back, security restored and it is these Internationals that must go and the penal colony they've made out of Haiti. The indefinite detention of Haitians can no longer be countenanced. Political prisoners must be released.

God Bless the people of Haiti, who don't read Reuters, New York Times, the mentally colonized Haitian interneters, the Corbett List and/or listen to the US funded, right-wing radio stations in Haiti. For, this SWITCH, this confusion in conversation, does not manipulate them. From Grangou Klorox - Clorox hunger- to this sudden instability tied to kidnappings, that is turned on and off, like a faucet, depending on what the right-wingers want to DISTRACT us from addressing and to force a more right wing direction on Haiti. No. That dog won't hunt!!!! (See, Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti.)

Who really cares, other than the Black overseers, the US kingmakers and power and privilege peoples of Haiti who Haiti's Prime Minister is right now? Bob Manuel or whoever else. The Haitian government is a puppet government living off the trickle down pipi of the Internationals. Until it starts investing in Haitians, in the masses that voted for it, (not the 1% to 3% vote-garnering politicians who it build a "coalition" with); until the Preval government starts putting the priorities of its masses, who want an end to the UN occupation, an end to this on-and-off-again organized kidnapping, and an end to endless IMF/World bank debts, subsidized US rice and start investing in national production, national interests, national health care, schools and jobs, it is just uselessly maintaining itself in US/UN-paid job. (Hope and Humiliation)

Meanwhile, the people fend for themselves as ALWAYS. So, don't believe the hype and switch in current conversation. The UN rapists in Haiti must go. The humanitarian aid workers maintaining dependency and raping and abusing Haitians need to go back home and be prosecuted. The US oligarchs imposing hunger on Haitians must be stopped. Haiti's food sovereignty restored. ( HLLN Links to US free trade fraud promoting famine in Haiti.)

Switching the conversation, to the more neocolonially palpable insecurity (kidnapping) and instability of Haiti, is too desperate to be taken seriously by anyone other than the black overseers who lap up the trickle down pipi of the foreign NGOs, and corporate oligarchs masturbating on Black pain in Haiti.

Ezili Danto
Li led Li la
June 7, 2008 (revised)


Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/paradigm.html#comparing
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HLLN Links to US free trade fraud promoting famine in Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/foodcrisis.html#freetradefamine
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Economic proposals that make sense for the reality of Haiti - The Western economic model doesn't fit an independent Black nation
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/paradigm.html#plans
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Haitian food crisis sending refugees to the sea
http://www.margueri telaurent. com/campaigns/ campaigntwo/ nosanctuary. html#sea
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20 Haitians bodies found near Bahamas, April 22, 2008
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/ campaigntwo/ nosanctuary. html#dead
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Media Lies: The two most common neocolonial storylines about Haiti - May 14, 2008 & August 27, 2007
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When Haiti Was Free - Video Evidence of Media Lies (A Proposed HLLN Documentary) by Ezili Danto for Haitian Perspectives and the FreeHaitiMovement, May 14, 2008

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Ezili Danto's counter-narrative to the Associated Press's current Neocolonial Narrative in "Haiti's tourism dreams deferred by riots"

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On distractions - How the social scientists' manipulate information to keep a right wing agenda in Haiti going and to continue imposing starvation on Haiti : The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the masses

Standing on truth, living without fear – Supporting Barack Obama’s vision of what can be…
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On distractions - How the social scientists' manipulate information to keep a right wing agenda in Haiti going and to continue imposing starvation on Haiti : The life of those in the Haitian hills are not more sacred than that of the masses

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Black is the Color of Liberty
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HLLN Links to US "free trade" fraud promoting famine in Haiti
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Media Lies: The two most common neocolonial storylines about Haiti - May 14, 2008 & August 27, 2007

"When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped...........If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise." Robert Fritz