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

Protest looms as US is set to deport 30,000 Haitians

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Diskou desalin premye janvye

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Haiti Policy Statement for the Obama Team, by HLLN/Ezili Dantò, January. 17, 2009

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The Second Slate of Lavalas Candidates

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The Maryse Narcisse Slate of Lavalas Candidates

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Third Lavalas faction - are they Fanmi Lavalas?

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Third Faction's: Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad Patisipasyon

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Unauthenticated: To Zabeth on Lettre ouverte des douze candidats de Fanmi Lavalas

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See- Dialogue between Two Haitians, and Oct 17 – Day of Heroes In Haiti-

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HLLN on oversight needed on USAID

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Haiti's biggest party banned from Senate race By Joseph Guyler Delva

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 17 (Reuters)- Haitian authorities say they have barred the country's most popular political party from Senate elections, a move some fear could spark unrest.

Haitian electoral officials said The Lavalas Family Party failed to submit papers from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide authorizing the party's list of Senate candidates. Aristide is living in exile in South Africa.

Lavalas Family Party members protested when officials refused to register their candidates on Feb. 6. Electoral officials gave them until Monday to submit the legal mandate.

Lavalas missed the deadline, officials said late Monday. So its 12 candidates were barred from running in the April 19 Senate election.

Many fear the decision to ban Lavalas could spark a new wave of unrest and political instability in Haiti. The United States, France, the Organization of American States and others have expressed concern that the decision could affect the credibility and legitimacy of the elections.

A senator from the party, Yvon Buissereth, called the decision nonsense and said it was a move toward illegitimate and anti-democratic elections.

"President Aristide is in exile and has not been actively making decisions about the party's activities for several years now," Buissereth told Reuters. "It's a total nonsense to obligate him, from his exile he did not choose, to get involved and validate candidates."

Aristide left Haiti on Feb. 29, 2004, amid a bloody rebellion led by a former army and police officer, Guy Philippe. Aristide, who was accused by his foes of despotism and corruption, was also under intense pressure from the United States and France to resign.

Rudy Heriveaux, another senator from Aristide's party, said the electoral council's decision to request a formal mandate from Aristide was a pretext to expel the party, which he said was in the best position to win the majority of the seats.

"The Lavalas Family Party participated in the 2006 legislative and presidential election. President Aristide did not give any mandate and election authorities found no problem with that," Heriveaux said.

Several members of the electoral council were chosen by rival parties, and The Lavalas Family Party has no representative on the panel.

Council President Frantz Gerard Verret rejected allegations of bias and said the decision was made in accordance with electoral law.

United Nations troops were sent to Haiti to restore stability after Aristide's ouster. The UN mission has been extended at least until October.

Several Lavalas factions claimed the party's leadership after Aristide's ouster from Haiti.

The leader of one faction, Maryse Narcisse, said in a statement that she was speaking on Aristide's behalf.

She said Aristide refused to legitimize what he called the coup that toppled his government by signing documents before consuls appointed by those who forced him from power.

"Those who were the victims of the coup are now those who have been excluded from the electoral and democratic process," the statement said. (Editing by Jane Sutton)

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MSNBC.com
Aristide's party still blocked from Haiti election
The Associated Press , Feb. 17, 2009

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's electoral council has approved 13 new candidates for Senate elections, but is still prohibiting the Lavalas party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from participating.

Radio Metropole says the council's list of 78 candidates issued late Monday is final. But the new list adds to a supposedly final list that was issued on Feb. 6. The council had said Lavalas' candidates were disqualified for failing to produce a letter signed by Aristide.

Lavalas executive council leader Maryse Narcisse says the party is appealing. Supporters say they will protest the election if their candidates cannot participate.

Voters will chose 12 senators on April 19.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241743/

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Questions to Ezili Dantò on Lavalas split

Regarding HLLN post:
[ezilidanto] Haiti bars Aristide allies, former rebel who
helped oust him, from running for Senate | Divisions in Aristide's Lavalas party sharp

QUESTION ONE to Ezili:

What is your analysis of this? I'm very interested to hear, in light
of conflicts within Lavalas.
Js

QUESTION TWO TO Ezili -- On Fri, 2/6/09, rwalker wrote:

What are the possibilities of Aristide intervening long distance to try and shore up the legitimate Lavalas cadres? Feasible, conditionally possible or completely non-feasible?

Ezili Dantò's Answer:

One Lavalas faction is led by political prisoners (Yvon Neptune/So Ann)
who fought the US, denounced the coup d'etat, stayed in Haiti and/or refused to go into exile and FOUGHT with the people of Haiti in order for there to even be a puppet gov. right now, instead of straight up occupation with the morally repugnant elites as rulers for the "Haitian face" to neocolonialism.

The other faction is generally led up by folks who worked for, sometime in the past, for the international community/UN as "technician" or so their head says she did, along with "moderate Lavalas" who were able to stay in Haiti without imprisonment after the coup d'etat and effectively worked with the imposed Boca Raton regime at some point and who never truly defended the folks dying in Site Soley, Solino, Bel Air... or who, for survival purposes and because also they were left in Haiti never denounced the holding of the political prisoners and the coup detat slaughterings....Those in this faction who went into exile also remained relatively silent, for various reasons including the fact they were dependent on US asylum claims to remain abroad and alive....(To understand the dangers, recall Dr. Lovinsky Pierre Antoine who was one of those who fled Haiti to save his life, later returned to Haiti after the election of Preval in 2006, picked up his humanitarian work for Fondasyon Trant Septanm defending the Coup d'etat victims of both Bush regime changes in Haiti (1991 and 2004), gave interviews about the US Embassy's role in trying to assassinate him before he fled Haiti and who denounced the Boca Raton regime, demanded the UN end the occupation and continued to show the bloody work of the Haitian army. For his open dissent, Lovinsky was summarily disappeared in UN-occupied Haiti on August 2007, without a trace to this day. See Lovinsky speaks at the Darren Ell's interviews with Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, entitled "Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti," Part 1, dated Feb. 18, 2007 and Part 2, March 4, 2007).

In the first faction, there are those Lavalas, like Bel Angelot, who were forced overseas, but when they returned gave RESPECT and lead to those who stayed and fought.

Guess which side will eventually get US/International approval? The "moderate" Lavalas who stayed silent and have a relationship with the International community or those who openly denounced the coup detat, took imprisonment and now have more street credibility with the people? In terms of the questions regarding feasibility of President Aristide's long distance intervention, our past experience indicates that his silence sometimes, except for the annual New Years messages, can only be explained if he and his wife are under a gag order or house arrests in South Africa. So, one has no clue of President Aristide's intervention potential to reconcile these two sides of the Lavalas party. Especially considering his "spokesperson" leads the second Lavalas faction and is one of these who went into exile and who tell folks "she's a technician" who used to work for the UN occupiers and in some capacity for the State Department, and perhaps some say, still does!

At the end of the day, this drama is a result of the coup d'etat and what it was supposed to do. Divide and conquer. Judgment doesn't serve anyone but neither does this senseless division. It's our view at HLLN, Haiti is under occupation. We take no position as to elections-under-occupation and those who run for these seats. But, in terms of this split, we agree with Lavalas Parliamentarian Mme Norma Forte, as expressed in her Feb. 1st Press Release, where she asks for reconciliation between the two sides and Ezili's HLLN says further, not one Haitian child will be fed or get schooling or eat because of this Lavalas controversy. But the coup d'etat powers will be well fed off this. The UN will be given SOMETHING to "secure" as one can see from the press release sent out by France today announcing that this electoral commission's decision will lead to VIOLENCE. And the US and Canada will have something to "negotiate" as we see from the US and Canadian press releases where both these coup d'etat countries indicate that the total EXCLUSION of one party - the Lavalas party - from the upcoming April senate elections will put into question the legitimacy of the elections. It's been sort of calm and these folks haven't had much Haiti chaos to feed off of for a while, just Haitians dying of famine, and through collapsed schools, hurricane ravages, against the backdrop of news of USAID failures, foreign NGO's gleefully masturbating on the dependency, the UN raping and molesting Haitian children and a US embassy employee bilking the State Department for over 850,000 (notice that only the guilt and corruption of the VERY young, 25 year old Haitian employee at the US Embassy in Haiti is revealed or reported prosecuted in this "SCHEME to embezzle funds from the State Department," not the American masterminds working at the US Embassy and/or State Department who processed or took part in facilitating or sharing in the booty of the over 850,000 fraudulent cash advances. Go to: Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000).

Now this Haitian electoral council excluding the Lavalas party is just the chaos they need to distract folks from their uselessness and corrupt neocolonial role in Haiti. Haitian fratricide is a much more comfortable issue for these "do-good" missionaries and their USAID/US Embassy functionaries and the embedded media to sink their imperial teeth on - never showing that maintaining Haitian fratricide and images of the "fighting, incompetent Haitians" was the purpose of their coup detat/rendition in the first place.

Most folks in the international community in Haiti, making money with their studies of studies of more studies have to have a justification. And it's always that the people of Haiti, Haiti's masses are not to be taken seriously because they are not READY to rule themselves, that there is no LEADERSHIP in Haiti, the masses cannot govern, there needs to be bridge persons- Western-created TECHNICIANS- who can connect the masses to the elite. What that means is that the US/UN and coup d'etat countries will support those in Haiti who agree that Haiti should have politicians amenable to the international community and who are able to work as middlemen or, TECHNICIAN/TECHNOCRAT, absorbing and attracting the tensions created by 1% elite and their Western masters excluding the masses from the countries wealth.

Either way, ALL Haitian life is disposable in the neocolonial scheme. At the end of the day, the Haitian people who will die behind this Lavalas party split, will be those in the poor Haitian masses and poor neighborhoods. That lost of Haitian life to come behind this split is something HLLN will denounce and hold both factions responsible for for failing to find conciliation. In terms of the larger question of the CEP, its blanket denial of both the Lavalas slates, this gives further evidence that the Bush 2004 coup d'etat continues under the Preval's consolidated coup d'etat government or, in US-Regime-Change-parlance: Preval's "coalition" government. It evidences the arbitrary enforcement of laws as to the Lavalas political party.

For instance, current Senator Youri Latortue is well known as "Mr. 30%" for taking bribes and many of the other coup detat folks currently in the parliament ACTUALLY have corruption records, but the CEP never felt similarly inclined to disqualify coup d'etat folks with actual human rights abuse records... This is not about the rule of law, but destroying the remnants of the Lavalas Movement, destroying the Haitian revolution, which essentially was the purpose of the Bush 2004 coup d'etat in the first place.

*The two sides must come together and not give the CEP an excuse to exclude the people. The good of the Haitian people should come first. But is the split - the two slates of candidates, virtually the same but for three submissions - the real reason the CEP excluded all the Fanmi Lavalas candidates? Or, are they not claiming that Aristide must, from exile, SIGN the papers? Which is it? The CEP should make itself clear. The CEP didn't make such a request for Aristide's authentication during the 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections. Back then, the embattled Famili Lavalas party boycotted the elections but a minority sector of Fanmi Lavalas ran in the parliamentary elections and ran Marc Bazin as its presidential candidate (in coalition as Fanmi Lavalas and under the banner of Union Pou Haiti). There were no issues then raised as to this minority's authority to use the Fanmi Lavalas name, why is there one now? Why this request now for Aristide's authentication of the slate of candidates?

Furthermore, this CEP's exclusion also evidences its capricious and political nature in that other candidates, like Ronald St. Jean, who do not belong to the Fanmi Lavalas political party, but who stood against the lies and coup d'etat propaganda of NCHR and Pierre Esperance, have also been EXCLUDED by the CEP. Ronald St. Jean registered as an independent candidate for the West. His candidacy was excluded as well as that of all the Fanmi Lavalas 16 candidates (Jocelyn Privert who would have made it 17 candidates in total submitted by the two factions and who was on the Neptune submission list, apparently registered "indeprendent.") There may be and probably are others like Ronald St. Jean similarly arbitrarily knocked off the ballot and from running for office in the Senate. This is not acceptable either. We don't know about all the others so arbitrarily, without apparent legal cause, who were also excluded by this coup d'etat CEP, but Ronald St. Jean has never before been accused of a crime or certainly has never been convicted of one, why was he also summarily excluded.

What? Because he debunked the lies of the coup d'etat NCHR on their La Scierie massacre? We speak up against this exclusion also. Yet and still, those in the two Lavalas factions MUST show some leadership and come to a consensus for the GOOD OF THE PEOPLE they claim to represent. Otherwise, they give the CEP its excuse of exclude and disenfranchise the largest sector of the Haitian population and that is not acceptable.

Ezili Dantò/HLLN
Feb. 7, 2009
* This paragraph added to original on Feb. 9, 2009
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[ezilidanto] Haiti bars Aristide allies, former rebel who helped oust him, from running for Senate | Divisions in Aristide's Lavalas party sharp
Saturday, February 7, 2009 7:23 AM
From: rwalker
To: erzilidanto@yahoo.com

Thank you for the very informative answer. As Dr. Nkrumah observed: "Thus far, all the methods of neo-colonialists have pointed in one direction, the ancient, accepted one of all minority ruling classes throughout history divide and rule.

"Quite obviously, therefore, unity is the first requisite for destroying neo-colonialism. Primary and basic is the need for an all-union government on the much divided continent of Africa. Along with that, a strengthening of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation and the spirit of Bandung is already under way. To it, we must seek the adherence on an increasingly formal basis of our Latin American brothers." Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

Roy Walker
www.panafricanperspective.com

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Re: [ezilidanto] Questions to Ezili Dantò on Lavalas split. A more detailed Dantò answer
Monday, February 9, 2009 12:49 PM
From: wallace

Thank you for the explanation of the split in Lavalas and the ongoing events in Haiti. As you know the mass media has blacked out all of this news.

Wallace-Mexico City

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--- On Sat, 2/7/09, erzilidanto@yahoo.com <erzilidanto@yahoo.com> wrote:

[ezilidanto] 12-year old Haitian supposedly bilked 850,000 out of the US State Department? Where are the investigative journalists of this world? Where'sthe Congressional inquiries/oversight when GRAND theft at US Embassy in Haiti is blamed on a Haitian teenager!!!

"...It's been sort of calm and these folks haven't had much Haiti chaos to
feed off of for a while, just Haitians dying of famine, and through collapsed
schools, hurricane ravages, against the backdrop of news of USAID failures,
foreign NGO's gleefully masturbating on the dependency, the UN raping and
molesting Haitian children and a US embassy employee bilking the State
Department for over 850,000 (notice that only the guilt and corruption of the VERY young, 25 year old Haitian employee at the US Embassy in Haiti is revealed or reported prosecuted in this "SCHEME to embezzle funds from the State Department," not the American masterminds working at the US Embassy and/or State Department who processed or took part in facilitating or sharing in the booty of the over 850,000 fraudulent cash advances." Go to: Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000).

Ezili,
This article on the Saint-Joy person has him working from 1996-present, if he is now 25 that would mean he was 12 when he started working?? Interesting times to say the least. My best, Jean-Paul

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ARTICLE IN QUESTION:
Former Employee at U.S. Embassy in Haiti Pleads Guilty to Theft of More Than $800,000

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former employee at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti pleaded guilty today to one count of theft for stealing morethan $800,000 from the U.S. Department of State, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.

According to court documents, Jean G. Saint-Joy, 25, a/k/a Gary Saint-Joy,
a/k/a Garry Saint-Joy, a citizen of Haiti, was employed as a cashier by the
U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from approximately 1995 until July
2008.

Beginning in approximately 2003 and continuing until early 2008, Saint-Joy
admitted he engaged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the State Department.

As part of this scheme, Saint-Joy admitted he submitted and caused to be
submitted false and fraudulent documents to the State Department claiming that he required reimbursement for the payment of legitimate embassy expenses.

According to court documents, Saint-Joy illegally obtained approximately
$428,639 from the State Department as a result of the scheme. Saint-Joy also
admitted he provided and caused to be provided false and fraudulent requests
for cash advances from the embassy's cash advance accounts with two banks in Port-au-Prince. According to court documents, Saint-Joy illegally obtained
approximately $50,000 from one account and approximately $371,627 from the
other account. The total amount of Saint-Joy's theft was approximately
$849,000.

The charge to which Saint-Joy pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of 10
years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Sentencing was scheduled for
May 26, 2009.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Ethan H. Levisohn and Marc
Levin of the Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section, which is headed by
William M. Welch, II. The case was investigated by the Office of Inspector
General for the U.S. Department of State.

SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
PRNewswire-USNewswire

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Third Lavalas faction - are they Fanmi Lavalas?

HLLN has previously reported on the Fanmi Lavalas spit where two sectors identifying themselves as authorities for Haiti's largest political party, presented two different slates of candidates to the electoral council (CEP) for the upcoming April 2009 Senate elections in Haiti. Both slates where rejected and after protest asking for inclusion and participation from the US, France Canada, OAS and the differing sides themselves, Haiti's Electoral Council afforded a right to appeal, which expired on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 without resolution. The intervening authority to act as the sole National Representative of the Fanmi Lavalas party submitted by Maryse Narcisse was rejected by the CEP.

The interesting new development is that a third Lavalas faction (the "Parliamentarians") entered the scene last Friday on Feb. 13, after the appeal time span for candidate submissions to Haiti's electoral board had expired, with their public statement entitled "Rezolisyon Fanmi Lavalas nan kad Patisipasyon" (copied below and signed by Sénateur Yvon Buisreth, Députe Paul Olivar Richard, Députe Boisrond Jean Roland, Députe Pierre Jérôme Valcine, and Députe Jonas Coffy). This third voice, third Fanmi Lavalas faction, was given 72-hours (until Monday Feb. 16, 2009 at 4pm) by Haiti's electoral council (CEP) to provide:

1. A unified list of 12 Fanmi Lavalas candidates, and
2. Proof of their authority as Fanmi Lavalas

Ezili's HLLN has been informed by our folks on the ground in Haiti that they've come up with a list of twelve. The contested four within the 2 Lavalas lists submitted came from Grand'Anse, the West and the North. We are informed that all the candidates on the Maryse Narcisse List have been adopted by the Parliamentarians, except for one change. Pléteau Larousse was chosen instead of Dr. Gerald Gilles to represent Grand' Anse and the other two from the second slate of Lavalas, the Yvon Neptune/Yves Cristalin faction (Phélito Doran, Chena Pierre Martial and Bell Angelot), rejected.

The question remains : are these Parliamentarians honest brokers, recognized mediators? Are they Fanmi Lavalas, MIDH or Union Pou Ayiti? They are saying that though they went to the 2006 elections under the Union Pou Haiti banner, the symbol they used and which the people recognized was a "table." "Bò tab la" - the table, is the recognized symbol of Fanmi Lavalas. The logic we are told is they were elected as "Fanmi Lavalas" and so are officially "elected Fanmi Lavalas representatives" and so that's their authority to act as the legitimate representatives of Fanmi Lavalas.

Will this consensus hold? Or, will the four candidates who are removed sucessfully contest? Better yet, will Maryse Narcisse who claims authority as National Leader of the Fanmi Lavalas political party through an April 2004 power-of-attorney, supposedly executed by President Aristide while in Jamaica, contest these Union Pou Ayiti's candidates' authority as Fanmi Lavalas? (See, L’opposition au Dr Maryse Narcisse au sein de Fanmi lavalas met en doute l’authenticité d’un mandat de Jean Bertrand Aristide qu’elle a déposé au CEP, February 10, 2009, Radio Kiskeya ). The CEP rejected Narcisse's authority as "unauthenticated."

The coup d'etat's division drama continues....or, hopefully will be put to rest on Monday, Feb. 16 with an acceptable solution.*