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HLLN
Honors Prime Minister Yvon Neptune for services rendered to the
Haitian People and the world as Prime Minister of Haiti and especially
for services rendered, these last two years as the unconstitutionally
oustered Prime Minister of Haiti
by Marguerite Laurent, HLLN, Haitian Perspectives,
July 29, 2006
To commemorate the release of Prime Minister Yvon Neptune from
prison, below we issue, for the first time in English, a letter,
that was written (in French) by Yvon Neptune on August 23, 2004
and addressed to U.S. Ambassador James B. Foley.
This is one of the most explosive piece of evidence HLLN has in
its archives about the events of February 28, 2004 and the US,
France and Canadian subterfuges and lies used to force former
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune into believing President Aristide
had resigned and to induce Neptune to stand at the ceremony where
the Haitian Supreme Court Judge, Boniface Alexandre, would take
title as President of Haiti.
It will take a few e-mails to properly highlight the more important
points. But, Yvon Neptune explains how « During the night
of 28th to the 29th of February, under the strangest of circumstances,
President Aristide, in a two to three words, argumentative telephone
message, presented
me with the following choices, to leave or to stay." Thus,
in a "two to three words argumentative telephone MESSAGE"
received by Neptune, he was presented with the "choices,
to leave or to stay" he writes. The subterfuge here, is contained
in the totality of the "strangest of circumstances"
he then explains as he recalls the circumstances surrounding receipt
of this message, listing them under the title "Prior to February
29, 2004" where he outlines the International community's
undermining of Haiti's democracy and Constitutional governance.
In this list of surrounding and simultaneous occurrences, one
of the most damming of all was how U.S. Ambassador Foley was DIRECTLY
implicated with the assassins attacking Haiti's Constitutional
government. In this August letter, in terms of U.S. Ambassador
Foley's culpability and collaboration with the former Haitian
army and FRAPH death squads, Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, points,
in particular, to "The public request you (U.S. Ambassador
Foley) made to the so-called "rebels" to postpone their
attack on the capital, followed shortly after by President Aristide's
departure into exile, on a plane ordered by the American government."
If the US Ambassador wasn't directly involved with the so-called
"rebels" or the lie of "resignation," why
would U.S. Ambassador Foley be free to make a PUBLIC request to
the so-called rebels to postponed their attack on the capital,
followed shortly after by President Aristide's departure into
exile, on a plane ordered by the American government?
Will there come a day, when U.S. Ambassador Foley, the United
State, will answer to the Haitian people, in a court of law, for
these egregious acts of terrorism, subterfuge and betrayal? Considering
that Congressmen Foley of Florida just put in a bill to honor
Latortue for a job well
done in Haiti as the imposed Prime Minister, perhaps that day
is far away for us Haitians.
But some day, perhaps generations from now, if the US has not
destroyed the planet with its technological weapons and other
« marvels » the sons and daughters of Dessalines will
have the truth be known and this sort of dishonorable behavior
not tolerated by civilized peoples.
One day, the Foleys of this world, both of them, shall be accountable,
for the sufferings they've imposed on a people that has never
attacked anyone, neither another nation nor any other peoples
ever since they lifted the Europeans chains off their necks, except
in self-defense and
within the borders of Hispaniola. But we've had to endure the
white settlers and former colonizer's wrath relentlessly and unmercifully
for two, no, for over five centuries.
The Haitian people continue to suffer. And, just recently, Stanley
Lucas, an agent of their empire (The Washington Democracy Project)
wants to continue to justify the genocide and slaughter of Haitians
at home and abroad, through innuendo and broadly and sweepingly
labeling dissenters to empire and racist patriarchy in Haiti who
support Lavalas or Haitian sovereignty as "terrorist."
(See,
"Washington Democracy Project | Continued Kidnappings in
Haiti, The Necessity of a Meaningful Policy to Crackdown on the
Perpetrators of Violence, July 2006").
But, the Haitian people are blessed for they do not read the New
York Times, or Washington Democracy Project's papers and don't
know anything about the image that's been superimposed upon them.
Only the schooled-Haitians, the likes of Stanley Lucas, Guy Phillip,
Boulos, Apaid and Baker read the New York Times, or network with
CIA agents and other such "Intelligence" agents, who
will name places in Haiti "Kosovo" and give arms and
names like "San Mamam" to poor discontented and frustrated
Haitians, turning them into criminals or Lame Timanchèt
assassins; re-modeling blueprints taken straight from West Africa
where said CIA/Euro-US intelligence agent just finish raising
discontent and divisions to begin the civil wars that always enrich
their multinational corporate bosses.
Only these folks have the capacity to make "operational terrorist
plots." For, the Haitian folks I know and was raised by,
would never resort to harming innocent civilians just because
of their government officials. Life is not important enough for
that and death not final enough for such a madness.
For, if Stanley Lucas knew anything about Haitian cosmology, he
would understand that the majority of Voudouist Haitians know
that "as below, so above. " What we human beings do
right here on earth with our life, determines which irreducible
energies are called forth to be born again and again. Hundred
of years of the slavers greed was only broken by righteous Haitian
self defense and Ezili Dantò's mother love. Haitians claim
the right to self-defense, but not to attack outside our territory.
It's been this way for over 200-years.
The sacred land called Ayiti is a royal trust. The word "Ayisyen"
raises up the spirit of the Tainos and we hold up Africa's sacred
trust and swear seventy times seven that Haitians shall live in
Ayiti with no chains and no bars. Live free or die. That's it.
No more and certainly no less is the Haitian legacy and we, the
majority in Haiti and abroad, are fulfilling it, though it's intolerable
and the pain of dissent carves us into pieces moment after moment,
day after day, year after year, decades after decades and centuries
after centuries.
But, we have our redemption songs to get us through, our history
of resistance to get us through. Out Bwa Kayiman commitment to
get us through. For, as 72-year old folksinger and political prisoner,
So Ann, sings
"Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance....
We spent days without food
We crossed the desert on foot
We spent nights without closing our eyes
We are a people with resistance ....
We have learned to walk under ground
Hold our breath under the sea
Defend ourselves against evil spirits
We are a people who have resistance
They have stepped on us but can't squash us...
They have made us know the way to jail
Shut us in concentration camps
But we have not lost our objective
We are a people who have resistance
Slavery or occupation nothing has eliminated us
We have escaped under all maneuvers
We are a people who have resistance
We went to hell even though we are not dead
We came butted head with Lucifer
We told him we believe in paradise
We are a people who have resistance
We have endured 30 seasons of pain
We have been taken by tornado of danger
We are bent but have not fallen
We are a people who have resistance
(http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/SAlyrics.html)
Hold on we say to So Ann, hold on. You too, like Yvon Neptune
was, must
be set free. "Resistance o resistance o we are a people who
have
resistance"
Below folks, is Yvon Neptune's letter.
HLLN honors Yvon Neptune's courage and selflessness.
He faced the three (France, US, Canada) powers and though they
used all their force - military, diplomatic, financial - to destroy
this lone man and his integrity, Yvon Neptune never buckled under
their tyranny.
He survive two and a half years of their directed incarceration
in Haiti, refusing to go into exile; refusing to say what they
wanted him to say; refusing to let them take his dignity.
Yvon Neptune did something most special and worthy of note. He
absolutely, positively refused their hypocritical, patriarchal,
white-men-is-benevolent-humanitarian charity justice and demanded
they PROVE he did wrong. They could not. Neptune kept his honor.
His accusers and jailers had none to begin with.
Yvon Neptune's words are important. He paid a great price for
all Haitians and for humanity and we, at HLLN can only bring to
you his words in English in hopes that somewhere out here, in
this universe, where evil seems to be triumphant everywhere, there
are human beings, who wish to do good and who will stand with
us to bring civility, decency and the rule of law and principles
back as the standard for human behavior and interactions.
My Black people worldwide, August 14, 2006 is almost here.
So, let me take you back to a hilltop at Bwa Kayiman, Haiti some
200 plus years ago:
"It's night. August 14, 1791.
Slavery is everywhere.
Whites are killing Africans.
Whites are killing Africans.
Whites are killing Africans.
"This is how they entertain themselves:
they bury us alive in the hot sun,
so the ants will slowly devour our heads.
Either they beat us until we're red in blood or until we faint.
They have the habit of driving the knife of their bayonet into
the
stomach of a pregnant Haitian woman disemboweling her - killing
both the
child and the mother. These are their pleasures, ordained by their
God,
they say.
"It's the heart of every African that's beating the rhythm
the drummers
are playing, calling the Ancestors to come help them get rid of
the
Europeans and their slavery.
"Everybody,
the drummers today,
like the drummers at Bwa Kayiman, stand.
Covering the four corners of the earth - the Great Crossroads
where the
earth meets sky. The visible meets the invisible.
"We stand at the four cardinal points calling on all creation
- Zanset
e Ti Moun yo - to come help us remember what happened, on that
faithful
night, at that sacred and secret wood clearing in the mountain
forest
called, Bwa Kayiman.
"Koute, listen to the drum calling the African captives to
leave behind
their plantation worries, calling on the runaway to leave their
hiding
places, calling on the Mulatto, the Affranchi, to all, come and
gather.
Koute vwa la libète kap pale lan kè nou. -
Listen to the voice for liberty that speaks in all our hearts."
(Excerpted from Marguerite Laurent's play "Bwa Kayiman."
All rights
reserved.)Haiti was born in resistance at Bwa Kayiman and will
always resist the
white man's tyranny.
We've endured the impossible and still kept our humanity. That's
our nature and it cannot be broken out of us.
But, it's hard.
Our determined walk to freedom in the Americas, since that sacred
August day, has been unbearably arduous, unimaginably difficult
and we Haitians have had to thread our life from the blood of
our slaughtered.
As Yvon Neptune writes below: "generations upon generations
of Haitian lives have been wasted."
I, have been at this struggle, for the soul of Black folk, for
decades. Know and work with others who have been where I am much
longer and at this moment, we see no end to these tribulations,
as this other Foley, this Congressman from Florida, now wants
to celebrate "the service of Gerald Latortue." Latortue
did a good job for the Bush Administration and so they are thanking
him for it. ( See, HRES
941 IH - "Honoring the service of Gerard Latortue, Haiti's
Interim Prime Minister" presented by (Shaw and
Foley to the Senate
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.RES.941: )
But Haitian patriots see that Gerald Latortue was hired by the
State Department/Pentagon to do his hatchet job for their multinational
oil and corporate interests. He exceeded their expectation, as
the puppets in Iraq have not done. The US was prepared, unlike
during the first coup d'etat,and this time avoided all domestic
repercussions by surrounding Haiti with their ships to turned
back any overloaded-with-Haitians-boat-people fleeing their Latortue
death squads.
Besides, this time, Guantanamo Bay was already full of others
from Iraq and Afghanistan, et al.
Thus, Haitians who were caught fleeing, were housed on large floating
US ships and some repatriated, others are still languishing (especially
if they are Haitian-Americans) on these floating US vessels/penal
colonies. The nightmare for them continues. They suffer in darkness,
on US military ships that no US mainstream journalist cares to
investigate at all or report about.
Yes, Latortue served the US well and the subsequent popular election
of President Rene Preval to the presidency, that left intact the
Latortue regime's technocrats, coup d'etat employees and its foreign
ministry, only further testify to the brilliance of this repulsive
modern day usurpation of political power and disenfranchising
of the Haitian masses.
As Yvon Neptune writes in the August 23, 2004 letter, "on
one hand, the intellectual elites rise up through texts, while
on the other hand, the economic elites adapt to become "partners"
and/or dependable and exemplary honorary consuls." Thus,
the majority in Haiti remain voiceless and their advancement towards
full participation and integration into Haitian society always
slowed by these two tragic "elite" forces in Haiti (and
now abroad also, more and more) who, by effect or by outright
design and intent, ally with these foreign interests, not the
nations's best interests.
The Feb. 7th vote is being turned into a simple opinion poll.
These are the successes of the coup d'etat. Congressmen Foley
of Florida and Mr. Shaw can honor the puppet Latortue with no
qualms, no responsibility, or accountability to the people of
Haiti. For them, the end justified the means and Haiti lies firmly
in their grip, Lavalas destroyed. Or, so the morally repugnant
economic and raised-on-text-"intellectual?" elites,
in Haiti and Miami, are telling them. But we, Dessalines descendants,
are not dead yet and even death could not destroy what Haiti is,
or what these folks are. That is the simple truth.
And true to, to us Haitians and those we work with, from all the
races, in Haiti and abroad, is the fact that Latortue represents
nothing to us if not tyranny, unconstitutionality, indecency and
the rule of "might makes right." He belongs in jail,
not being honored in the supposedly "hallowed halls"
of the US Congress. It makes those of us Haitians, who are also
US citizens, very ashamed of our American citizenship that such
a travesty should take place in the "name of America."
The Haitian majority voted, on February 7, 2006, against the Latortue
crew, against the International community that hired and supported
him; a Latortue who imprisoned Yvon Neptune and thousands of other
innocent Haitians for over two years - people who have never been
convicted of any crime. A Latortue regime that set free over 3,000
prisoners and the FRAPH warlord, Louis Jodel Chamblain; a Latortue
who mourned only the death of Labanye and celebrated "as
freedom fighters" the terrorist who helped get him his job.
A Latortue who helped to loot Haiti's
heritage, stamping on the Ancestors legacy on the bi-centennial
of our independence; a Latortue whose regime fleeced Haiti out
of 965,000 in so-called foreign "aid" and even attempted
to void Haiti's demand France pay back the Independence Debt.
Indeed the long nightmare continues for Pitit Bondye. But if you
want, if you are willing: listen to the voice for liberty that
STILL speaks in all Dessalines' Descendant's hearts.
Realize the gift Yvon Neptune is to us. His letter of August 23,
2004 clearly outlines, inter alia, Ambassador Foley's complicity
in the coup and why it was a coup d'etat.
This letter, made public is invaluable and loaded with critical
information. Most Haitian politicians do not provide the Haitian
people with the tools of combat to defend ourselves. Yvon Neptune
has, over and over again, with his many, many letters from jail,
these last two years, served not just his honor. But served well
the people of Haiti. We honor his courage. We honor his principled
stance. We honor his ingenuity; that even in jail, he used the
limited resources in his hands. He used his letters to give us
Haitians his own knowledge and perspectives of the events surrounding
the night of Feb. 28 and February 29, 2006: what was his to keep,
but the people's to know. We mourned the taking of his liberty
for over two years for the honorable and righteous fight he conducted
IN OUR NAME.
Thank you Prime Minister Neptune. Our heritage, our umbilical
chord, back to Bwa Kayiman and to the Africa that once lived,
back to the beginning of time, remains intact in you. Onè
beloved. Onè Yvon Neptune. Respè brother Yvon Neptune,
respè and chapo ba.
Marguerite "Ezili Dantò" Laurent, Esq.
Founder and Chair of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network
(Dedicated to defending the
human, civil and cultural rights of
Haitians at home and abroad and institutionalizing the rule of
law in Haiti)
July 29, 2006
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Boukman's Righteous Prayer: The god who created
the earth, who created the sun that gives us light. The god who
holds up the ocean, who makes the thunder roar. Our God who has
ears to hear. You who are hidden in the clouds, who watch us from
where you are. You see all that the white has made us suffer.
The white man's god asks him to commit crimes. But the God within
us wants to do good. Our God, who is so good, so just, He orders
us to revenge our wrongs. It's He who will direct our arms and
bring us the victory. It's He who will assist us. We all should
throw away the image of the white man's god who is so pitiless.
Listen to the voice for liberty that speaks in all our hearts.
Boukman's Prayer at the Bwa Kayiman Vodun ceremony, the call to
action that launched the Haitian Revolution, on August 14, 1791.
***********************
Statement of Facts of former Prime minister Yvon Neptune
Pénitencier National, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
August 23, 2004
Mr. James B. Foley
USA Ambassador
In his office
Mr. Ambassador,
At the time where the de facto Government and anti-Lavalas of
all ilk are today giving free course to their most ingenious scheme,
in an effort to conceal the true reasons for my country's dilapidation
and the vicious circle of infrahuman misery which maintains and
perpetuate the flagrant exclusion of the overwhelming majority,
I take the opportunity to add, if opportunity there is, my take
on the February 29, 2004 events, more specifically on what had
been presented to me as President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's resignation
and that commanded subsequent actions from me as Prime Minister
until March 12, and as citizen from March 12 until today.
On Saturday February 28, 2004, subsequent to information concerning
provisions made by the US government, in concert with those of
France and Canada, to remove President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
from Haiti, I invited you to meet me at the Prime Minister's office.
During our conversation, I explained to you that the February
1996 and 2001 peaceful and constitutional transfer of power were
democratic assets that ought to be reinforced by a similar transfer
of power in February 2006; and that any forceful departure of
President Aristide would set democratic processes back ten (10)
to fifteen (15) years. I reiterated the position I took publically
a few days before, in front of the nation and the world, namely
that constitutional President Jean-Bertrand Aristide must finish
his five (5) years term and that it was the international community's
duty to help the government quash the armed aggression of former
members of the FADH (Haitian army) against the Haitian state ;
That I would be in opposition to any government issued from a
forced interuption of constitutional order. And that if the President
chose to resign it would be another story, I would manage routine
matters until such a time as my successor's nomination.
During the night of 28th to the 29th of February, under the strangest
of circumstances, President Aristide, in a two to three words
argumentative telephone message, presented me with the following
choices, to leave or to stay. Remembering the gist of our meeting
of the day before at the Prime Minister's office, I called you
in order to find out exactly what was going on. You informed me
that the President had resigned and was about to leave the country;
anticipating the possibility of carnage in Port-au-Prince, you
advised me to go to the Prime Minister's office.
Shortly after my arrival at the office, you joined me there, accompanied
by the President of the Cour the Cassation (Supreme Court) who
presented me a "card" that he assured me was a legal
document of resignation of the President of the Republic.
This was the apparently convincing piece of evidence that trigered
the partial application of the Constitution's article 149 and
the UN Security Council's Resolutions 1529 and 1542. And furthermore
the agreement between the supervisory foreign powers and the anti-Aristide/anti-Fanmi
Lavalas coalition to impose in an unpredictable, adulterated and
inappropriate political context, this implementation of the CARICOM
plan and the initial Project of Accord that were merely documents
waiting to be finalized and agreed upon by all concerned parties.
When, from the Central African Republic, President Aristide let
it be known that he had been kidnapped from Haiti, and when in
a statement CARICOM proposed an investigation as to the circustances
surrounding President Aristide's departure, I asked you to clarify
for me the President's affirmation as well as CARICOM's concerns.
You tried to convince me that the President left the country willingly.
But, an analysis of certain acts, events and/or statements, pre
and post February 29 corroborated President Aristide's accusations
and justified CARICOM's questions:
Prior to February 29, 2004
- Practically simultaneous statements from Secretary of State
Colin Powell, Canada's Prime Minister, Paul Martin and France's
Foreign Affairs Minister, Dominique de Villepin indicating to
President Aristide to prepare to face the consequences of his
actions, at the very moment that the armed opposition was occupying
or was threatening many cities in the North, North-East, North-West,
Artibonite and Plateau Central.
- The demand, tolerated, if not endorsed by these (countries)
so-called friends of Haiti, made by the opposition coalition that
Aristide leaves, in spite of his total agreement to CARICOM's
Action Plan.
- The extensive broadcasting, in the so-called independent press
of Mr. Hérard Abraham's pre-recorded, in-the-US-message,
calling for the departure of President Aristide. (Mr. Abraham,
though he did not get his desired Prime Minister's position, is
the current minister of Interior, Territorial Collectivities and
National Defence).
- The silence and/or the inaction of Haiti's so-called "friends"
in the face of the assassination of police officers and State
workers; the destruction of Precincts and other public buildings,
perpetrated by members of the former FADH (Haitian army) and FRAPH.
- The American autorities' decision to disuade the private American
security agents, hired to protect President Aristide, from protecting
him in the face of an eventual attack announced by the "rebels,"
for the American forces would not come to their rescue if their
lives were in danger.
- The public request you made to the so-called "rebels"
to postpone their attack on the capital, followed shortly after
by President Aristide's departure into exile, on a plane ordered
by the American government.
Post February 29, 2004
- The allegation you made along with other members of the American
government that President Aristide had been move from Haiti to
save his life and the fact that he took advantage of the opportunity
to entrust his resignation "card" to the American Ambassador
(or one of his representatives) that gave it to the President
of the Cour de Cassation who, according to him, had been waiting
at the embassy for reasons unknown to him.
- The fact that according to President Aristide, he was not at
liberty to know ahead of time where his "saviors" were
taking him for safekeeping.
- The free access allowed to the "rebels'" tracking
down and executing Fanmi Lavalas supporters, even though American,
French, Canadian and Chilean troops were deployed throughout the
country; the situation not changing with the UN Blue Helmets'
presence.
- The pressure you exercised on March 12 that forced me to prematurely
leave the Prime Minister's office where I was lodging since February
29 with no arrangements made for my lodging, fact being that my
residence had been ransacked and destroyed on February 29.
- Your insisting, from March 12 'til today, that I leave the country
for security reasons though the marines had been here for more
than three (3) months and that the UN forces subsequently arrived.
- Illegal arrests and executions of Fanmi Lavalas members by the
National Police, in collaboration with the armed "rebel"
assassins and other criminals opposed to Lavalas, in collusion
with and/or enjoying the indifference and/or the inaction of the
Multinational Force (FIMIH) and MINUSTHA.
- The "rebels" and other demobilized military maneuvers
to control, if not to evict the PNH. This, under de facto government's
instigation or command, apparently in coalition with interested
agencies of the American government and Haitian merchant and businessman
groups, along with politicians who supported and financed the
September 30, 1991 military coup d'etat.
- The absence of concrete plans and measures for the disarmament
of members of the old FADH and of FRAPH who identified themselves
as the ones who committed the Pernales assassinations, the attacks
on July 28, 2001 on the Police Academy and on December 17, 2001
on the National Palace, of the arson and destruction of Police
precincts where they killed police officers and liberated convicted
common criminals.
- The de facto regime's and the US, French and Canadian governments'
obvious strategy to charge the constitutional majority government
and Fanmi Lavalas that voted it in, with all the political, social,
economic and environmental disasters generated during two (2)
centuries during which alternating and succeeding periods;
i. of racist ostracism of independent Haiti, implemented by some
American and European slave-owning states,
ii. of foreign powers impositions by military coercion of fraudulently
established indemnities,
iii. of natural resources spoliation;
iv. of foreign occupations with hegemonic objectives of domination
and economic exploitation.
v. Of the International's collusion with the Haitian Nation's
most ferocious, corrupt and destructive dictators.
The enemies of Aristide and the adversaries of Fanmi Lavalas claim
that the President's"departure" on February 29, 2004
is the result of a general uprising by the Haitian people. Mr.
Gerard Latortue glorifies the worst torturers of the old FADH
and FRAPH as "combatants for freedom";
and the latter require that they be rewarded and/or rehabilitated
for services rendered to the "cause of democracy"; and
you, Mr. Ambassador, you believe it acceptable to remind these
nostalgics of the old corrupted FADH, putschist and detested by
the Haitian people, their promise to put down their arms once
President Aristide leaves.
Democracy is not a laboratory product or factory product to be
consumed with threats, dictates and/or sanctions; it is rather
a game of compromise and/or understanding, difficult and certainly
hard at times, within a human group in search of harmony, security
and peace for the progress of all.
In this context, any disagreement resolved by armed violence or
by any other form of violence, to the advantage of an uncompromising
minority in its thirst for power, creates a dangerous precedent
which risks encouraging the continuous reevaluation, if not destruction
of assets, to be ameliorated of course, of the assimilation of
democratic processes. "It is democracy only in as much as
it is continuously being created."
In effect, having supported three (3) years of pitiless violence
of unfair, unjustified and destructive sanctions against Haiti
and the poor majority of its children, on February 29th, 2004,
in the year of the Bicentenial of Haiti, your socio-Darwinist
government, in accord with thoserevanchist of France and suiviste
of Canada, used armed violence one more time to strip the majority
of the People of one of its fundamental democratic assets, respect
of its constitutional choices.
Yours and other governments pretend to care and even to be friends
of Haiti and the Haitian People. But the past and present life
of my country reveal so much disturbing and even repulsive expressions
of what they consider to be concerns and tokens of friendship.
Unfortunately, on one hand, the intellectual elites rise up through
texts, while on the other hand, the economic elites adapt to become
"partners" and/or dependable and exemplary honorary
consuls.Since these elites are always wary of the aspirations
and especially of the dynamic organization of the majority determined
to enjoy its rights, they instinctively get closer and agree,
on the basis of common prejudices, to slow down the advant of
the majority. And this while shamelessly ignoring Constitution
and law. Their behaviours, their positions and actions during
the three (3) years of their opposition to president Aristide
and to Fanmi Lavalas are more than convincing proof.
After all is said and done, a variety of elements of different
types seems to contradict the version of voluntary resignation
of president Aristide. The doubt on the conditions of his departure
is so heavy, that CARICOM did not yet resolve to acknowledge the
temporarily government; the African union adopted a similar position,
while the government of South Africa considers Jean-Bertrand Aristide
the constitutional president of Haiti where as the majority which
elected him continuously demands his return.
It is also important to take into account the political confusion
and uncertainty, the risks of explosion and of social tears created
by the suspicious resignation of a president with whom the majority
identifies and on whom it lays its hopes of better life in an
Haiti of justice, equity and security.
Haiti was experiencing a period of relative stability; from the
return of president Aristide on October 15th, 1994, including
the five years of Mr René Préval presidency, until
January/February, 2004 the beginning of the 4th year of the second
term of president Aristide. Armed attack against the Academy of
Police on July 28th, 2001 and that of December 17th, 2001 against
the National Palace along with reactions translated in popular
acts of violence which followed, the armed attacks in Pernales
and acts of vandalism against the Power Station of Péligre
in the course of the year 2004, all these attempts of the armed
opposition to destabilize the State did not affect the course
of negotiations regarding the preliminary plan for legislative
and local elections. Notice that these armed attacks were carried
out by members of the old FADH and FRAPH, artisans of the September
30th, 1991 coup d'etat who had sought refuge in the Dominican
Republic; some of them had already been condemned by justice and
others sought for traffic of, among other things, drugs and/or
international terrorism.
The political climate worsened when, during January and February,
2004, these opposition terrorists, tolerated or supported by your
Government and others, launched an assassinations campaign of
policemen, destroying police stations and other public buildings
and controling certain cities of the country through the rule
of arms.
The violence of the three (3) years of economic sanctions speeded
up the general deterioration of all forms of life in Haiti and
in an irreversible manner in certain essential and fragile circles;
however they in no way softened up the opposition's extreme stance
and steer that opposition towards the sense of compromise continuously
encouraged and supported by president Aristide and Fanmi Lavalas.
As the majority of the people remained faithful to its choice
and the opposition's street demonstrations remained the expression
of a minority unable to motivate the majority in joining, the
governments of the United States, France and Canada, for reasons
already pointed out, had no other alternative than the use of
armed violence to decapitate and dismantle Fanmi Lavalas,regardless
of the human and material damage which had to be inflicted on
Haiti and its People.
The «rebels», members of the old FADH and the torturers
of the old FRAPH, were the ideal COVER, in light
of their well-known history of murderers without creed nor law
and the opportunity offered to them to take revenge on president
Aristide. Once the violent destabilization
objectives were met, American marines, French, Canadian and Chilean
troops would come to hold the «rebels» at bay, long
enough to set up a government of «transition », and
the UN forces would take charge to manage the rest. (Emphasis
added by HLLN. Randall Robinson similarly identifies the "rebels"
as mere Americand DECOYS. See, pg. 196 of An
Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the kidnapping of a
President.)
In spite of a propaganda campaign aiming at reassuring the population
of the «transition's» progress, this blow of Jarnac
(stab in the back) proves to have transformed the social, political
and economic environment into a vast field of latent battle where
every interest group positions itself while making sure to mine
every inch of ground for the others.
Before February 29th, 2004, it was a matter of the majority of
the Haitian People linked to Jean-Bertrand Aristide/Lavalas upseting,
others of the minority « friends of Haiti ». Today,
it is a matter of clans of the disparate minority, some with power,
others on the periphery and/or lusting for power, of the «
friends of Haiti », and of the majority of the Haitian People
always linked to Jean-Bertrand Aristide/Lavalas are underground,
but does not cease upsetting.
While there is still time, would it not be necessary that the
true friends of Haiti, within the OAS, the UN and of the European
Union demand that the genocide triggered off on February 29th,
2004 and which advances under the pretence of a «transition»
which tries openly to hide its true name be stopped? The Action
Plan of a national compromise for the progress of the democratic
process was proposed by CARICOM and ratified by OAS; President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Fanmi Lavalas with the support of the
Majority of Haitian people approved it and were ready to implement
it.
For more than three (3) months, American marines, French, Canadian
and Chilean force of FIMIH operated in a way that opened the possibility
of leading Haiti and its People in the grip of undercover militarism.
The MINUSTAH forces took over for the purpose, they pretend, of
stabilizing a socio-political environment in which the potency
of weapons had overtaken reason and wisdom in the democratic game.
The overwhelming majority of Haitian People, deliberately and
freely engaged in establishing lasting institutional structures
for the sustainable practice of democracy; it should be noted
how powers within the OAS, the UN and of the European Union in
the course of last three (3) years joined forces in order to render
viable, by any anti-democratic politicking subterfuge, or even
dishonesty, a marginal and scattered opposition, to the point
of keeping silent on, if not supporting or even including in their
efforts, the pressure of weapons to reach their objectives.
Resolutions 1529 and 1542 of the UN Security Council authorized
FIMIH and Minustah for the promotion of peace and stability, and
that of the OAS acknowledging the de facto Alexander Boniface/Latortue
government were taken on the basis of documents which would normally
be credible, because of the stamp of State authorities who acted;
nonetheless, what the UN and the OAS should know, is that these
Haitian authorities acted at a time and in circumstances where
they could only rely on your guarantee of the truth of the events
surrounding President Aristide that morning of February 29, 2004.
In the final analysis, all the OAS resolutions on Haiti relative
to the problems of the May 21st, 2000 elections, and the Plan
of Action of CARICOM seemed to assert imperious the obligation
to guarantee democratic assets and the continuous progress of
the process; the membership of the actors and the period when
the opposition's armed aggression took the character of a declaredwar
against the State, should have triggered off the alarm for the
OAS side, for the « friends of Haiti», and even for
the UN so that precautionary actions be taken, in order that the
requirements of building and protecting democracy be respected
and applied by all interested parties.
The originators, the implementor and beneficiaries of the February
29th, 2004 coup d'etat are using all kinds of machinations to
incriminate Fanmi Lavalas, as well as all types of promises, in
the hope of co-opting, without including it, the majority of a
population brutally deprived of the symbol motivating its patience
and its efforts and sacrifices to mobilize and participate in
the improvement of its living conditions.
The government in power, its international advisers and the national
sector organized to draw all possible benefits, they all pretend
to ignore the evolution of the majority, relative to its knowledge
and to its will to enjoy its rights; or perhaps they would like
to believe in the however unpredictable perspective, that the
specter of the members of the old FADH/FRAPH, of the UN force,
or of the cunningness of the government and of the International
will suffice to undo the closeness and the trust developed during
more than fifteen years between the great majority of the Haitian
People and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Haiti in the year of the Bicentenary of its Independence still
wedged in the bi-secular gears of the original antagonism sclerosing
between its socio-economic categories; reinforced antagonism and
made complexed in the course of the centuries by their reproduction's
internal dynamics and that of the active external elements which
grafted themselves on top or became part and parcel.
In the course of the last fifteen (15) years, an important and
promising mutation started at the grassroots majority of the Haitian
population, in cities and in rural areas. The elites, taught to
consider themselves representative of Haiti's values and raison
d'être, did not understand or became alarmed when faced
with the progressive range of this mutation in social, economic,
political and cultural domains in the country. Do the influential
powers within the OAS, the European Union and the UN on the Haiti
dossier, realize that this mutation is generated by the increase
in needs, demands, democratic practices of the population's broad
base grassroot onwhich depends the sustainable stability and peace,
and that this mutation is irreversible?
I would therefore not be able to imagine that the majority of
the OAS Member States, of the EU, of the Security Council of the
UN, the majority of the representatives elected by American, Canadian
and French people, made a pact with the politico-military plan
to destabilize the Haitian State with the objective of causing
the banishment of President Aristide at about two (2) years of
the end of its 2nd non-renewable, constitutional mandate.
If such is not the case, it is in the best interest of the future
of the democratic process, in an environment of peace and stability
that OAS, the European Union and the United Nations grab the opportunity
of the presence of the Blue Helmets to organize the establishment
of a context conducive to the CARICOM Plan and the assets to be
supplemented as part of the initially agreed plan partly negotiated
under the aegis of OAS.Such correction would put Haiti back on
the rails leading, as part of the training and strengthening of
democracy, in a third constitutional transfer of power by an elected
president to a new also elected president, according to the prescriptions
of the Constitution.
M. Ambassador Foley, you and your colleagues must, without a doubt,
feel comfortable and content in doing in and to my country whatever
the military and economic might of your governments dictate; as
far as I am concerned, my source of wisdom, strength, serenity
and pride, in the face of the wickedness of certain people in
power, is the never-ending will of the poor majority of my compatriots
to keep hope for a better alive and active tomorrow.
Slavery and dictatorship had been imposed upon us; we have fought
and stopped them. Today, in whatever form they are planned in
order to undermine our option for effective participatory democracy,
others and us who truly believe in these principles and objectives,
should never, under no circumstances, betray them. Democracy is
a human concept originated from the experience of life of mankind.
Societies the world over are still experimenting it, at one degree
or another.
Whenever undemocratic means are condoned and/or used to purportedly
protect the gains and/or steady the course of the democratic process,
that sends to the people apprenticing democracy a confusing message
about the facts, the meaning and the rules of democracy, and that
threatens to take us all back to the jungle law of the strongest;
in fact, quite often nowadays, what prevails is the will of states
with hegemonic economic and military powers, and having the largest
and deadliest arsenal.Democracy is said to be a game of compromise;
but unfortunately for Haiti and its people, your government and
others who claim to be their friends, instead of standing upfor
compromise between the Lavalas majority led by President Aristide
and the platform of the opposition minority and its armed aggressions
against the state and Lavalas; they chose to side with and act
in favor of the uncompromising opposing minority; thus breaking
dangerously the democratic process and jeopardizing its future.
Between the genuine struggle of the popular majority and the intellectual
business «elites» your government and others opted
for the disparate politically incoherent «intellectuals»
and the corruption prone business "elite", both of which
you and your predecessor have publicly qualified as such.
Generations upon generations of Haitians have been wasted, and
Haiti has long been on the verge of becoming a totally barren
and disaster plagued land, with an exploding and agonizing population.
The historical and contemporary facts are available to whoever
is truly interested in what should be done urgently and in the
short term, so that the long-term future of the country could
finally rest on gradually secure political and economic ground.
Caring friends of Haiti, republicans and democrats, liberals and
conservatives, socialists, and capitalists would best serve Haiti
by always acting in ways to encourage all sectors of Haitian society,
political parties and government to operate in all circumstances,
with no exception, within the framework of the Constitution and
the law.
On march 2, with the probable approval of Secretary of State Colin
Powell and Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, you «let
me know» that I should leave Haiti (go into exile) as soon
as a new, i.e. putchist Prime Minister is appointed, or I would
risk being jailed and/or assassinated (while the US marines were
and the UN soldiers, are in Haiti supposedly to provide at least
a sense of security to all sectors?).On the one hand, you are
well aware of article 41 of the democratic Constitution of Haiti,
which states that, «no one of Haitian nationality, for no
reason whatsoever may be deported or forced to leave the Haitian
soil».
On the other hand, I spent three (3) months or so under cover
(from March 12 to June 27); since then I have been for months
in the jail of the facto government and its allies.
I know this letter may trigger sooner or later, both from the
de facto government in Haiti and the US government additional
actions or pressures to the ones I have been subjected to so far.
Mr. Ambassador, what next do you know is in store for me?
One of the essential guarantees of durability of Justice, security,
stability, peace and progress in the world, must be consistancy
and coherence of the international and regional organizations
of States, and rights of the People and the person, in their systematic
refusal to recognize the existence of any government issued from
a coup d'etat, whatever the reasons, the means and form, in a
country where democracy is already established.
Yvon NEPTUNE
Former Prime-Minister
Member of Fanmi Lavalas
Political Prisoner
N.B.: Mr. Ambassador Foley, before sending you this correspondence
dated August 23rd, 2004, I want to take time to observe the reaction
of the OAS, the UN and particularly that of the American, French
and Canadian governments, in the following significant events:
I. The public admission not only of members of the old
FADH and FRAPH, but also from the Group 184 and from certain political
parties, to have been collaborating from the inception:
A. Of the terrorists acts against :
a) The Police Academy on July 28, 2001
b) The National Palace on December 17, 2001
c) Public buildings, such as police Precincts (with police officers'
assassinations), court houses, customs offices, the Péligre
Electrical Power Plant, etc.
B. Of the armed occupation of cities such as Gonaïves, Hinche,
Cap-Haïtien, Fort-Liberté etc.
II. The occupation of police stations by members of the
old FADH and FRAPH after they chased the agents of the PNH, and
armed parades staged by members of the demobilized army in various
cities of the country with the full knowledge of the de facto
government, the PNH and the UN forces.
III. Socio-political discrimination at the detriment and
stigmatising diabolisation and ostracism of the poor majority
of the population, by de facto regime and its associates, because
of Lavalas' affinity with this majority.
IV. The continued persecutions, arbitrary and illegal
arrests of cadres, members and supporters of Fanmi Lavalas, and
also other simple citizens in general from the poor majority.
V. Trials and/or verdicts pre-orchestrated by the political justice
machine of de facto regime of which one of the most brazen examples
is that of the defendants in the assassinations of Antoine Izméry
and of father Jean - Mary Vincent.
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HRES
941 IH : http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.RES.941:
Honoring the service of Gerard Latortue, Haiti's Interim Prime
(!!!!!??)
Minister. (Introduced in House)
HRES 941 IH |109th CONGRESS |2d Session
H. RES. 941Honoring the service of Gerard Latortue, Haiti's Interim
Prime
Minister.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 24, 2006
Mr. SHAW (for himself and Mr. FOLEY) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International
Relations
RESOLUTION
Honoring the service of Gerard Latortue, Haiti's Interim Prime
Minister.
Whereas Gerard Latortue was born on June 19, 1934, in Gonaives,
Haiti;
Whereas Gerard Latortue worked as a lawyer and law professor in
Haiti
after studying politics and economics in Paris, France;
Whereas Gerard Latortue co-founded the Institute of Economics
and
Business Study so that Haitians could study economics locally;
Whereas Gerard Latortue served as an official with the United
Nations
Industrial Development Organization in Africa;
Whereas Gerard Latortue served
as Haiti's Foreign Minister in 1988;
Whereas Gerard Latortue hosted talk shows on South Florida's Haitian
Television Network;
Whereas the seven-member Haitian Council of Sages appointed Gerard
Latortue as Interim Prime Minister on March 9, 2004;
Whereas Gerard Latortue was sworn in as Interim Prime Minister
on March
12, 2004;
Whereas Gerard Latortue worked to eliminate political cronyism
and
corruption in the Haitian civil service;
Whereas Gerard Latortue collaborated with officials of the United
States Drug Enforcement Administration on counternarcotics initiatives;
Whereas Gerard Latortue sought to restore international relations;
Whereas Gerard Latortue promoted and oversaw free elections for
a
democratic Haiti; and
Whereas on February 7, 2006, over two million Haitian citizens
went to
the polls to elect a permanent and democratic government: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) congratulates the people of the Republic of Haiti for
holding peaceful and democratic elections on February 7, 2006,
resulting
in the election of President Rene Preval and Prime Minister
Jacques-Edouard Alexis;
(2) expresses appreciation to Gerard Latortue for his
service to Haiti during a tumultuous period of civil unrest; and
(3) recognizes Gerard Latortue's tenure as Interim Prime
Minister of Haiti from March 12, 2004, to June 9, 2006.
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"Rezistans" (Lyrics
to "Rezisans", a song written and sung by Sò
Ann)
Source: Haiti Action Committee - English Translation
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/SAlyrics.html
*
Chorus
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
We have endured 30 seasons of pain
We are trapped in a tornado of danger
We are bent/stumbled but have not broken/fallen
We are a people who have resistance
We spent days without food
We crossed the desert on foot
We spent nights without closing our eyes
We are a people with resistance
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
Resistance o resistance o we are a people who have resistance
Resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance
Resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance, resistance
We have learned to walk under ground
Hold our breath under the sea
Defend ourselves against evil spirits
We are a people who have resistance
They have stepped on us but can't squash us
They have shewed/moistened us but can't swallow us
We are hard as a rock
We are a people with resistance
ChorusThey have made us know the way to jail
Shut us in concentration camps
But we have not lost our objective
We are a people who have resistance
Slavery or occupation nothing has eliminated us
We have escaped under all maneuvers
We are a people who have resistance
ChorusWe went to hell even though we are not dead
We came butted head with Lucifer
We told him we believe in paradise
We are a people who have resistance
We have endured 30 seasons of pain
We have been taken by tornado of danger
We are bent but have not fallen
We are a people who have resistance
Chorus
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Kreyol Original:"Rezistans" (Song written and sung by
Sò Ann)
English translationRezistans o rezistans o nou se yon pèp
ki genyen rezistans (4x)
Nou pase trant sezon doulè, nou pran nan toubiyon malè
Nou panche men nou pa tonbe, nou se yon pèp ki genyen rezistans
Nou pase jounen san manje, nou travèse dezè a pie
Nou fè nuit san n pa fèmen je n, nou se yon pèp
ki genyen rezistans
Rezistans o rezistans o nou se yon pèp ki genyen rezistans
(4x)
Rezistans, rezistans, rezistans, rezistans, rezistans, rezistans,
rezistans (2x)
Nou aprann mache anba tè, kenbe souf nou anba lanmè
Defann tèt nou kont tout move zè, nou se yon pèp
ki genyen rezistans
Yo pile n yo pa sa kraze n, yo mouye n yo pa sa vale nou
Nou di pase yon ròch kòlòròch, nou
se yon pèp ki genyen rezistans
Yo fè nou konn chimen prizon, fèmen n nan kan konsantrasyon
Men nou pa pèdi direksyon, nou se yon pèp ki genyen
rezistans
Lesklavaj ou lokipasyon anyen pa janm rive fè fen n
Nou chape anba tout mannèv, nou se yon pèp ki genyen
rezistans
N al nan lanfè san nou pa mouri, nou troke kòn ak
Lisifè
Nou di li nou kwè nan paradi, nou se yon pèp ki
genyen rezistans
Nou pase trant sezon doulè, nou pran nan toubiyon malè
Nou panche men nou pa tonbe, nou se yon pèp ki genyen rezistans
****************************************************** Haïti
: Mobilisation contre la présence des militaires étrangers
http://www.alterpresse.org/article.php3?id_article=4980
vendredi 28 juillet 2006
P-au-P, 28 Juil. 06 [AlterPresse] --- A l'occasion du 28 juillet
2006, date qui ramène le 91e anniversaire de la première
occupation
américaine d'Haïti, le Mouvement Démocratique
Populaire (MODEP) lance une
campagne de sensibilisation contre l'occupation d'Haïti par
des
militaires étrangers sous le couvert des Nations Unies.
Le coup d'envoi de cette mobilisation pour la désoccupation
du pays
a été donné dans la localité de Marchaterre
(Cayes, troisième ville
d'Haïti dans le département du Sud), où a été
perpétré le massacre d'un
groupe de paysans haïtiens sous l'occupation américaine
(1915 - 1934),
suivant les informations obtenues par l'agence en ligne AlterPresse.
En présence d'une centaine de riverains, une délégation
du MODEP et
du Mouvement de l'Unité du Peuple Aux Cayes (MUPAC) a incendié,
ce 28
juillet 2006 à Marchaterre, un drapeau américain
et hissé le bicolore
bleu et rouge haïtien à l'endroit même où
était érigée, après 1986, une
statue réalisée par l'artiste haïtien Jean
René Jérôme en mémoire des
paysans tués sous la première occupation américaine.
La statue, qui montrait un paysan muni d'une pioche en position
de
résistance, avait été détruite par
des mains inconnues en 1989.
Dans l'après-midi de ce 28 juillet 2006, les promoteurs
de la
campagne de sensibilisation contre la désoccupation du
pays ont tenu une
conférence-débat aux Cayes, dans la station de radio
communautaire
dénommée Voix Claudy Museau, du nom d'un militant
politique assassiné pendant
la période du coup d'Etat militaire (1991 - 1994).
Dans la localité historique de Marchaterre, les membres
du MODEP
ont donc mis en branle leur campagne contre la présence
de 7300
militaires et environ 1700 policiers de plusieurs pays qui composent
la Mission
de Stabilisation des Nations Unies en Haïti (MINUSTAH).
« Toutes les organisations, tous les militants et citoyens,
ne
doivent pas marchander leur participation dans la lutte pour la
libération
du pays humilié par ses amis de la communauté internationale
», affirme
Smith Maximé.
Selon ce responsable du MODEP, cette campagne vise, entre autres,
à
sensibiliser les citoyennes et citoyens d'Haïti sur ce problème,
dénoncer les exactions des occupants sur la population
et contraindre les
autorités haïtiennes à utiliser leurs propres
ressources pour garantir la
sécurité du pays.
Une pétition contre l'occupation ainsi que d'autres documents
y
relatifs seront publiés. Des conférences-débats,
des affiches
publicitaires, sit-in et expositions de photo seront organisés,
indique, pour sa
part, Rodeney Cirius du MODEP.
Le Mouvement Démocratique Populaire estime que la présence
des
soldats onusiens dans le pays contribue largement à la
détérioration de la
situation économique du pays.
« Nous avons un pays délabré, un pays qui
dépend financièrement de
l'aide internationale », fustige Smith Maximé. [do
rc apr 28/07/2006
16:50]
**************************************************Special note
to a valued HLLN member:
Thank you, once again, Professor Frantz Jerome for a job well
done. The
Neptune letter was very, very, long and many others called to
help with
the translation did not answer. We thank you for your continued
volunteered services to HLLN and the Ezili Danto Witness Project.
In fact, as I was posting this e-mail and came across the Altepress
article ("Haïti : Mobilisation contre la présence
des militaires étrangers
" copied below.) The article reminded all of us of your family's
service to Haiti. For, according to the article, yesterday, July
28, 2006,
Haitians in Haiti who remembered their Haitian history, who remembered
the 91st anniversary, on July 28, 2006 of the first US occupation,
especially the Haitians at Marchaterre, Cayes were moved enough
to raise
the Haitian flag at the exact spot where your dear brother, the
celebrated Haitian artist, Jean René Jérôme,
after 1986, had put up a wonderful
artwork to memorialize the peasants who were massacred there by
the US
during the first US occupation of Haiti.
Of course, like all other Haitian development, productivity and
advancement, the puppet Macoutes who work for Haiti's enemies
and the US
containment-in-poverty agenda for Haiti, have long since destroyed
your
brother's memorial, just as the US Marines destroyed the Haitian
medical
school in 2004 and replaced it with prison barracks and their
military
quarters. Just as the first thing the Philistines (Guy Phillip/Louis
Jodel Chamblain), whom the savage Latortue represent and celebrates,
destroyed the Haitian museum as they entered Port au Prince in
2004. Jean
Renè Jerome's amazing artwork no longer exists, except
in our hearts and
memory. Which is why HLLN exists, to remind folks of what is constantly
being erased about Haitians. To remind the world of Jean Renè
Jeromes
memorial. For, anything indigenously Haitian is rejected by these
modern-day slaver-makers and, as Yvon Neptune's August 23, 2004
letter
indicates, the destruction of Haiti's fledging steps towards democracy
-
it's two democratic assets, the February 1996 and 2001 peaceful
and
constitutional transfer of power - should have been reinforced
by the US
and the so-called international community, not deliberately and
purposefully destroyed under US behest and direction. But it was,
just as
these puppets destroyed Jean Rene Jerome's memorial artwork and
get
lifetime pensions for a "job well done", ten years back-pay
and now bills to
honor them in the US congress, sponsored by folks with last names
like,
"Foley."
These particular Americans only wish to raise edifices to their
lies
and honor their puppets who kill our people like Latortue. But
you,
Frantz Jerome, just like Jean Renè Jerome, build sculptures
that live
indelibly in our memories, our psyches and consciousness as a
people, a
nation of resisters to white tyranny. And, no matter how many
coup d'etats
or Apaids, Lucas' or Latortues the white men brings to give a
"black
face" to his oppression, their work shall never live in our
Haitian memory
as anything but the work of assassins, liars and thieves.
When our ancestors came to the Americas, they came naked and in
shackles. Only what was inside their heads, hearts and souls sustained
them,
just as Jean Rene Jerome's artwork remains in our hearts and memories
to
sustain us. Today, Haitian productivity, all our indigenous edifices,
our physical structures are always being destroyed by the white
man's-sponsored and financed coup d'etats. But, in our heads,
heart and soul,
lie the Haitian legacy, the Haitian pride and no one can bestow
this on
any Haitian. Those who trash their heritage for white approval
and
Eurocentric jobs and honors that destroy and kill Dessalines'
descendants
are white (wo)men in black face like Latortue, Annan, Condi and
Powell.
They are not Dessalines' "Black" folk. For, what lives
in us Black
folks cannot be indefinitely imprisoned, dishonored or destroyed.
Thank you
Professor Frantz Jerome for translating this very long Yvon Neptune
August 23, 2006 letter. Thank you for continuing to serve the
people
of Haiti and following the Jerome legacy.
Men Anpil Chay Pa Lou!
Ezili Danto,
HLLN, July 29, 2006
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Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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See,
Should Haiti Declare 'War Against Terrorism" Against the
United States? by Steve Pitteli,
4Report.com | July, 2006
and, Haiti
Terrorist Toto Constant
Arrested in Long Island by
Bill Weinberg, hopedance.org | July, 2006
See, Lame
Timanchèt: The DDR Fiasco,
Ezili Danto Witness Project, July 19, 2006 (Matisan Video Clips
- Clip
1
begging forgiveness, Clip2
- March 19, 2006 interview with Sason;
Clip3
- Peace between Gran Ravine activists and the police would turn
false as police-created Lame Timanchèt would 3-months later
attack the Gran Ravine community, again )
See,
Massacre of Haiti’s Innocents: What's Destabilizing Haiti?
No. Not
the "Demand for the Return of Aristide" as the Superpowers
who kidnapped
him out of Haiti would have us understand, but the Coup D'etat's
continued
oppressions, massacres and indefinite detentions. See, HLLN's
page on UN
firing down unarmed civilians and the Coup D'etat Turmoil |July,
2006
and;
July
18, 2006 Ezili Danto Witness Project Reports: 1) President Preval
is
reported to be in possession of a list of politicians and media
personalities
who have participated in the conspiracy to destroy the country
and received
huge sums of aid money in the process. The rumors of his death
may be to
intimidate Preval/Alexi government into not pursuing these criminals
and
corrupt officials. 2) MINUSTHA's raining bullets in Site Soley
and 3) Arrest
Warrants have been issued for Lame Timanchèt suspects for
the July 7, 2006
massacre in Gran Ravine Translation of excerpts of a July 18,
2006 Radio
Levekampe Broadcast (Masner Beauplan show) Report direct from
Haiti,
Translated for the Ezili Danto Witness Project from Kreyol original
into
English by Frantz Jerome, Ezili Danto Witness Project, July 19,
2006
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Expose the Lies of the International Community about Haiti, its
people and resources
Demand
the International coup d'etat supporing countries and enforcers,
not Rene Preval, set the political prisoners free, end the UN
occupation, return Haitian assets to the people of Haiti by Marguerite
Laurent, June 26, 2006, Haitian Perspectives
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Ezili Danto Spoken Word Dance Theater
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