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Legacy of Impunity
The
Neoconlonialist inciting political instability is the problem.
Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared
to other nations
by Ezili
Dantò, Haitian Perspectives, October
30, 2006
(See
also - Pointing
Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth
and, Comparing
crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
)
Political security is Haiti biggest problem. It is this political
instability that is primarily responsible for the legacy of impunity,
endemic poverty and violence in Haiti. This political instability
is due to what HLLN calls neocolonialism - the diplomatic, military
and economic efforts of the former colonists and enslavers, who
with their black opportunists in Haiti, work feverishly to limit
Haitian independence and sovereignty, binding Haiti to endless
foreign debt, dependency and domination.
In a recent Miami Herald interview, Haitian President Rene Preval
succinctly stated how violence, crime, corruption and incompetence
are not innate and particular to the Haitian citizenry. He said:
“…It's not insecurity that makes people not come
and invest in Haiti. There is an inordinate amount of kidnappings,
if not more, in other countries whose names I won't mention. The
problem in Haiti is a lack of political security ... Once you
can guarantee that there is political stability, that another
government is not going to come and change the game, there will
be investments... It's a problem of the image of Haiti. …
“…We are underdeveloped in everything, and we are
underdeveloped in corruption too. If they are looking for a country
that has corruption, I don't believe Haiti is the model of corruption.
I believe Haiti has a weakness in fighting corruption but it's
petty corruption; it's not big corruption ... If you put it proportion
to the problems of the country, it resembles big corruption. But
if you look at other countries, we are not yet strong in corruption…”
( Q
& A with Haitian President Preval Miami Herald
Jamaican Gleaner, Oct 26, 2006 http://www.margueritelaurent.com
/pressclips/latortuelegacy.html#interview
)
*
Below is an Oct. 30, 2006 report on Haiti’s current challenges
by the International Crisis Group, stating, in sum, that insecurity,
violence and impunity is Haiti's number one problem. The report:
“examines the security challenges facing René Préval,
including youth gangs, drug trafficking, kidnappings and corruption
in the Haitian National Police (HNP), and outlines what needs
to be done to create a stable environment.”
(http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone
/human_rights_reports/crisis.html#crisis )
Essentially the report states that “The Préval administration
must simultaneously tackle the pervasive violence while launching
infrastructure and development projects to combat extreme poverty
and give people reason to trust in government.” This is
the ideal and would be feasible except for one crucial factor
overlooked by most policy groups analyzing Haiti’s problems:
keeping the Haitian state apparatus in perpetual chaos and instability
is the aim of the world’s most powerful governments and
forces.
President Preval, because he was popularly elected is suspect
to the powerful International Community determined to dominate
Haitian politics and economy. President Preval and his government,
just like President Aristide before him, won’t be supported
to work in the interests of the Haitian majority because the developmental
interests of the Haitian majority is diametrically opposed to
the profit-over-people ideology and values of the economic elites
in Washington who currently run and rule the world.
The International Crisis Group doesn't factor in its analysis
that in order for President Preval to create a stable environment,
the majority poor in Haiti must be empowered. Empowerment means
an end to exclusion - the social, cultural and economic exclusion
of the poor majority in their own country.
To get to building solid and lasting Haitian infrastructure, President
Preval must have, not only state security and stability, but the
political, diplomatic, economic and military support or even the
authentic neutrality at least, of the powers-that-be in the Western
Hemisphere, along with resources – hard cash, funds from
the collection of Haitian taxes, Haitian state enterprises, tariffs
from goods, international credit and decent loan terms –
all this is not what USAID, IMF, World Bank are based on. These
Breton Woods organizations are in the business of containing developing
countries in poverty and exporting all their harvest to the reigning
US/Euro metropolis.
How can President Preval, make infrastructure improvements and
stop the instability when the folks responsible for Haiti’s
political instability deny it as Haiti’s primary problem
and act against Haitian advancement and progress while blaming
the insecurity, chaos, corruption and underdevelopment on incompetent
Haitian leaders and the poor Black majority that elects them?
Until and unless the real reasons for Haitian violence and impunity
are duly addressed, there will be little systemic change in Haiti.
Until the truth about the Neocolonists/international community’s
role in the cyclical Haitian problem of impunity, coup d’etats
and violence is in every report and analysis on Haiti, there will
be no progress made in the understanding of Haiti’s situation.
Nonetheless, it must also be equally pointed out that the International
Crisis Group’ October 30th report, makes all the other valid
and important points that need to be made on Haiti’s current
situation.
In fact, this policy group, like COHA, has been consistent in
outlining the Haitian situation without demonizing and criminalizing
Haiti’s majority poor and without making Haiti’s small
youth gangs the major cause of Haiti’s insecurity, corruption,
underdevelopment and impunity problems. (See, Haiti pulls back
from the brink: Campaign aims to disarm gangsters; 'A country
where almost everything is broken' and From
Thug to Freedom Fighters,
COHA, Larry Birns and Seth
DeLong, December 14, 2004)
For this they remain in the singular minority amongst think tanks,
policy groups and foreign NGOs. Fact is, it is not their business
to challenge the status quo and advocate for Haitian rights, sovereignty,
liberty and self-determination. But that is HLLN's mission.
And thus we submit to our Network this Oct. 30th report, as we
continue our series on the bicentennial of the assassination of
Haiti’s founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines.
The point we make here is that to understand Haiti's legacy of
violence and impunity and know President Preval’s challenges,
one must acknowledge the criminal interference of the International
Community and the Haitian economic and Eurocentric elite in undermining
the poor majority's historic and daily quest for liberty, fraternity
and equality in Haiti.
Until this is at the center of EVERY conversation, analysis and
report about Haitian rights, progress, violence and the legacy
of impunity in Haiti, we shall stay on this treadmill of coup
d'etats, slaughter of the poor and defenseless, execution of Haitian
youths, destruction of all progressive Haitianist achievements,
followed by an Internationally-pressed reconciliation with injustice,
where the Duvalierists, the FRAPHs, the Lame Timanchets, the Toto
Constants, Guy
Philippes, Raoul Cedras, Phillipe Biambys, Louis Jodel
Chamblains, the Boulos, the Apaids, Bakers, Stanley Lucas’
are continually absolved for their human rights violations, even
given US-Euro-sponsored asylum, amnesty, visas, golden parachutes,
jobs, legitimacy and "respectability.“ (See,
From Thug to Freedom Fighters,
COHA; RandallRobinson.com.)
Until the role of the International aiders and abettors to Haiti's
containment-in-poverty, misery, violence, impunity and underdevelopment,
is at the center of EVERY conversation, analysis and report about
Haitian rights, progress, violence and the legacy of impunity
in Haiti, we shall stay on this treadmill of Haitian underdevelopment
that enriches
only the white settlers and their Haitian agents.
Who is primarily responsible
for the political instability that fosters violence and the conditions
that lead to impunity, allows for no State accountability and
maintains the misery in Haiti?
No report, or analysis can be
made about the security challenges facing President René
Préval, “including youth gangs, drug trafficking,
kidnappings and corruption in the Haitian National Police (HNP)”
that doesn’t acknowledge the primary authors of the violence
and security challenges facing President Rene Preval.
No analysis of the political instability of Haiti, may authentically
speak of youth gangs, drug trafficking, kidnappings and corruption
in Haiti that remains silent about why the disenfranchised majority
in Haiti MUST constantly take up arms (from the Maroons, to Gorman,
to the Pikets, to the Cacos, to the people and youth gangs of
Site Soley, Bel Air, Gran Ravine, Cap Haitian, Gonaives...) to
defend themselves because of the weakness of the Haitian state,
which is supposed to be responsible for the security and well
being of Haitian civilians. For, Haiti’s political instability
did not start with Aristide or President Preval, or because of
the defensive actions of the totally disenfranchised youth "gangs"
in Site Soley or elsewhere in the populous neighborhoods of Haiti.
The PROBLEM began and continues to exists because the Haitian
economic and Eurocentric elites, intellectuals and technocrats,
along with their powerful foreign allies in the International
Community, bring on the POLITICAL instability and insecurity in
Haiti (which, in Feb. 2004 were: the US, France, Canada) that
is the FOUNDATION of Haiti's underdevelopment, violence and legacy
of impunity. From Dessalines' murder in 1806, ONE SECTOR, this
sector - the Haitian economic and Eurocentric elites - educated,
emboldened, financed and sponsored by the Euro/US Neocolonists
and former slaveholders, are the ones who benefit from, and are
sustained by, Haiti's chaos, violence and impunity.
The critical question today is not how can President Préval’s
administration “simultaneously tackle the pervasive violence
while launching infrastructure and development projects to combat
extreme poverty and give people reason to trust in government.”
For indeed the majority of Haiti’s peoples TRUST President
Preval (to a point). But they don’t trust the UN who has
been acting as military proxy for the Haitian elite and Washington’s
neo-liberal hit men. They trust Préval to try and work
in their interests, but don’t trust the coalition government
and economic elites not to block his progressive endeavors.
The International Crisis Group report correctly finds that: “Haiti
will turn the corner only when citizens sense a reappearance of
state sovereignty and the rule of law in daily life”, says
Mark Schneider, Crisis Group Senior Vice President. “That
will require cleaning up the HNP, wiping out the perception of
the state as a means to personal enrichment and opening up opportunities
for the poor”.
But the economic elites in Washington and in Haiti NOT opening
up “opportunities for the poor” in Haiti is precisely
why the there is no state security apparatus. To keep the popularly
elected Haitian state apparatus in perpetual chaos and instability
is the AIM of the world’s most powerful governments and
forces.
The political insecurity in Haiti is created in order that there
will be no development and opportunities for the poor. The International
Crisis Group’s October 30th report states: “The state
security apparatus” in Haiti is as much a source of “the
problem as the solution.” That’s true. But, what the
report does not write is that the Haitian economic elites - black
overseers in Haiti - with their powerful friends in the International
community don’t EVER intend to use their resources to SOLVE
the problem because NOT opening up “opportunities for the
poor” in Haiti is the VERY REASON why they strum and create
political insecurity, impunity and chaos in Haiti.
Until the Haitian majority are able to make a way out of no way,
these fascists opportunists will consistently make sure that a
popularly elected Haitian president does not have a community-based
and adequately trained Haitian police force, well equipped, duly
trained and adequately compensated to service the majority in
Haiti.
This powerful and well-connected anti-people force will actively
work to assure that Haiti does not have a competent and un-co-opted
Haitian judiciary; nor a Haitian legislature, judiciary and president
that is afforded the diplomatic respect of the Western nations
and not boycotted or blocked in their attempts to confront, within
the parameters of Haitian and international laws and with complete
sovereignty, the State issues faced by most governments such as
job creation, providing social services, electricity, sewage,
clean water, affordable housing, transportation, health and Haitianist
education policies and goals, and implementing provisions to counter
smuggling of drugs, weapons, contraband and to protect and prioritize
Haitian civilians, Haitian businesses while securing Haiti’s
ports and borders form illegal activities and other foreign meddling.
If the International community did not block these goals in Haiti
that most Haitians struggle to bring into manifestation, this
would mean a respect for Haitian sovereignty and that would be
against the tenets of the neocolonialism that has reign in Haiti
since the assassination of Jean Jacques Dessalines.
(http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips
/kangamundele.html#ahead ;
Pointing
Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth;
Comparing
crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
;
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization
to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207;
'Black People Remain Oppressed', The Herald (Harare) May 25, 2006,
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips
/gods_goddesses.html#oppressed, and
F.M.I., travay Feliks Moriso Lewa http://www.margueritelaurent.com/
pressclips/kangamundele.html#fmi )
From 1806
to 2006
Who killed Dessalines, Haiti's founding father? Toussaint Louverture
was kidnapped and killed by the French enslavers and colonists.
Then, the Haitians, most allied to these white colonists and enslavers,
killed Haiti's founding father.
Petion/Gerin- the Reactionary Mulatto Generals more allied to
French/colonial economic and cultural interests than the Haitian
majority are responsible for the assassination of Jean Jacques
Dessalines because he wanted the bounty, the assets of Haiti to
be equitably divided amongst Haitian citizens. (See Three Historical
Documents on Dessalines assassination, http://www.margueritelaurent.com/
pressclips/kangamundele.html#letters )
Following Dessalines' assassination in 1806, under the long Mulatto
and Eurocentric presidencies of Petion (12 years) and Boyer (25
years), the name Dessalines was execrated, declared loathsome,
cursed, marginalized and not allowed to be spoken.
Neocolonialism had begun in Haiti, would be formalized with Boyer's
"Independence Debt" ($22 billion with the last slave-trade
payment made in 1947 to US, the richest country in the world by
Haiti, the most defenseless and poorest. See HLLN's
Open Letter to the People of France. http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/
campaignseven/openletterfrance.html .)
The legacy of the impunity and undemocratic offenses of this one
class and sector of Haitian society, continues to this day…
This Haitian
economic elite with their foreign allies cannot accept
the principal of one citizen-one vote because it would mean that
they would lose their privileges and influence. Hence, the Feb.
29, 2004 coup d'etat and current UN protectorate under President
Preval which pursues the interests of foreigners and their black
overseers in Haiti.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips
/kangamundele.html#ahead
and Answers
to media questions about Haiti by Ezili Dantò
of HLLN, March 2, 2004 ).
Haiti’s founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines, said,
"I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided"
and for that he was assassinated.
That was the first coup d'etat in Haiti. This, the new stage in
the Haitian holocaust following 300-years of horrific European
chattel slavery – the organized exclusion of the masses,
their orchestrated misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic
elite – continues to the present, with Feb. 29, 2004 marking
the 33rd coup d'etat in Haiti.
These coup d’etat’s, these POLITICAL instabilities
in Haiti, are the foundation for Haiti's current instability,
insecurity and proliferation of human rights crimes, violations,
kidnappings, foreign pillage and rapes of Haiti’s resources
and assets.
(Haiti:
Latortue's Legacy , Jamaican Gleaner, Myrtha Desulme,
Oct 22, 2006; Pointing
Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth
and, Comparing
crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
).
Haiti's peoples continue to resist the return of despots, tyrants
and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black, contain-them-in-poverty
through neocolonialism' debts, "free trade" and foreign
"investments." These neocolonial tyrants refuse to allow
an equitable division of wealth - excluding the majority in Haiti
from sharing in the country's wealth and assets. (See Expose
the Lies of the International Community about Haiti,
its People and Resources. Demand The International Coup Detat
Countries (France/US /Canada) and enforcers (UN/OAS) not President
Rene Preval, Set All The Political Prisoners Free, End The UN
Military Occupation, began a Humanitarian and true civil exchange
with Haiti; And Return Stolen Haitian Assets )
HOW IMPUNITY WORKS:
The powers-that-be create death programs through endless debt.
They also create, harbor and pay death squads, and then use their
diplomatic, political, military, media and economic powers to
guarantee their thugs, mercenaries and economic hit men will not
serve time for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In 2006 - The same French colonial
mindsets, along with the same mentally-colonized Haitian sector
that was responsible for the Independence Debt in 1825, its protection
and implementation down the annals of Haitian history, is also
responsible for the 2004 ouster of President Aristide for, inter
alia, demanding, in 2003, for the return of said embezzled funds
($22 billon) by France to the people of Haiti. This same Euro/US
intellectual sector and their few economic and Haitian agents,
responsible for the death of Dessalines, are the same forces that,
in 1991 brought the first coup d'etat against president Aristide
and, the second coup d’etat in 2004. The same Euro/US intellectual
sectors, along with Haiti’s Eurocentric and economic elites
were represented when the United States Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) forces in Haiti created the Haitian death squad called "FRAPH."
It is this Haitian economic elite with its powerful foreign handlers
that were represented, when, on October 14, 1993, according to
a secret internal memo, the United States Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), met with Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, an
acknowledged CIA asset and FRAPH’s leader, to help senior
officials in Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras regime assassinate progressive
Haitian Justice Minister, Guy Malary.
Justice Guy Malary's death still goes unpunished. Just as tens
of thousands of other Haitian progressives, down the annals of
Haitian history, continue to fight against these despots and tyrants;
continue to be assassinated, sent into exile, or, imprisoned-until-death,
like Toussaint Louverture was, by these same foreign forces determine
to destroy Haiti, since the beginning of Haitian independence.
Most current analysis of Haiti’s problems tend not to single
out the immoral role of the greatest military and economic powers
on earth against Haiti defenseless peoples and base their analysis
on the “humanitarian and benign” interventions of
this “International Community,” hardly contextualizing
the insecurity in Haiti with insecurity in other parts of Latin
America. Hardly proportionally balancing on the scales that there
“is an inordinate amount of kidnappings, if not more,”
in other countries. And that the problem in Haiti, as President
Preval points out, is not about crime, but “lack of political
security - Haiti is underdeveloped in everything, including, again,
as President Preval states, “…we are underdeveloped
in corruption too. If they are looking for a country that has
corruption, I don't believe Haiti is the model of corruption.
I believe Haiti has a weakness in fighting corruption but it's
petty corruption; it's not big corruption ... If you put it proportion
to the problems of the country, it resembles big corruption. But
if you look at other countries, we are not yet strong in corruption…”
( Q
& A with Haitian President Preval
Miami Herald Jamaican Gleaner, Oct 26, 2006 )
Most in the corporate media and those who regularly analyze Haiti’s
problems would face alienation, not be rewarded with financing
or status quo approval if they should point to and contextualize
the long and protracted Haitian struggle to survive in a hostile
American Mediterranean. But one simply has to take a brief look
at Haitian history and current affairs to know, in general, which
Haitian sector has continually been responsible for the impunity
and violence in Haiti. It is not the youth gangs and folks in
Site Soley without international reach or powerful moneyed allies.
It is the so-called "beautiful people" in Haiti and
abroad, the so-called technocrats “representing” Haiti
in their suits and ties - the economic hit men, living behind
foreign embassy gates and Haitian mafia families with multiple
passports and high-powered friends like the accused, Republican
pedophile, Mark Foley. They are the ones bringing brutality, oppression,
exclusion, perversion, immorality and they live, not in Site Soley,
but in the non-tax-paying, gated and well-armed sections of Port-au-Prince,
Jacmel, Cap Haitian, et al. (See, Mark
Foley - The US Congressman who insulted the Haitian majority
by sponsoring a Congressional bill to honor the Gerald Latortue
for his hatchet job as the unconstitutional Prime Minister in
Haiti, and who sponsored HR611 which gives coup d'etat USAID more
support in Haiti, has just RESIGN from Congress over "improper
conduct" with a teenage boy! http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-09/msg00010.html
)
For example, according to the October 28, 1993 internal CIA memo,
on Toto Constant and the killing of Justice Minister Guy Malary:
“In early to mid-October, [Brig. Gen. Phillipe] Biamby and
his associates coordinated the murder of Justice Minister Guy
Malary, which took place on October 14, with members of the Revolutionary
Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress (FRAPH).”
“FRAPH members Jodel Chamblain, Emmanuel Constant and Gabriel
Douzable met with an unidentified military officer on the morning
of October 14 to discuss plans to kill Malary,” the memo
added. Gunmen shot and killed Malary and two aides later that
day just as they were leaving the ministry in downtown Port-au-Prince."
"U.S. officials and Constant, FRAPH’s founder, have
admitted that he
worked for the CIA between 1992 and 1994 for a reported
$500 a month. Constant, who escaped to the United States on a
visa issued by the American Embassy in Port-au-Prince in October
1994, said he met with U.S. intelligence officials frequently,
often daily."
(Go to: http://www.americas.org/index.php?cp=item&item_id=12260
;
Constant on ; and US judge orders Haitian
strongman to pay $19.5 million to rape victims, AP,
October 25, 2006 ; The
Morally Repugnant Haitian Elites and The Families:
The
Seven Mercenaries and others).
It is these same morally repugnant Haiti forces along with their
powerful foreign allies, who rode the coup d’etat repression
wave and tried to legitimize the rule of the un-electable Haitian
technocrats, like the Boca Raton regime and their ilk; who hire
mercenaries, such as death squad leaders and warlord Toto Constant,
Guy
Philippe,
Raoul Cedras, Jodel Chamblain, and now, as of 2005, who arm and
hire, the mercenaries of Lame Timanchet (Lame Timanchet, Labanye
and his successors and the rogue Haitian police, protected by
the UN, have taken over the bloody role of FRAPH and the Haitian
army in this second coup d'etat against Aristide.) These undemocratic
forces, are the ones primarily responsible for continuing Haiti's
legacy of impunity, violence and poverty. The organized press
won't tell you this. The big human rights groups, like Amnesty
International, et al, won't spell this out clearly and unequivocally.
But it is this rabid world elite, their Black overseers - previously
called Afranchis, or Black freedmen, that will rarely express
outrage as the U.S./Euros organize either a press conference or
"democracy enhancement" USAID-sort workshop for the
likes of Emmanuel Toto Constant and his colleagues or calls FRAPH
and Group 184, the legitimate opposition to Haiti's democratically
elected governments, giving these fascists mercenaries a US/Euro
platform and 'civil society' facade through funding from IRI,
NED, and or, NGO organizations such as, Reporters Without Borders,
The Solidarity Center or the Haiti Democracy Project.
It is these same fascists, predatory forces, demagogues and their
Haitian house negroes, who after the Haitian people have fought,
as they just did from Feb. 2004 to the election of President Preval
in 2006, and through sheer will and flow of their blood, checked
these rabid world elites' unfettered brutality and repression,
who will then, write long bureaucratic tracks for consumption
by Washington law-makers and key-stakeholders about "Management
Without Principle: A Path towards Chaos." (See Stanley Lucas'
- the
Washington Democracy Project- advise to Preval on how
to handle Haiti's chaos and insecurity! see, also Response #1
to Stanley Lucas- the
new and modern incompetent "intellectual" house nigger
) Mr. Lucas, like Toto Constant, Andre Apaid, the Boulos', the
rich mafia families in Haiti, the Jodel Chamblains, the Guy Phillipes,
Lame Timanchets, all, work for the interests of their Washington
"Democracy" project masters, and for their "trickle
down dollars," not for Haitians.
Recently, a New York court handed a verdict against US-created
Haitian warlord Toto Constant and, for once, the impunity in Haiti
was handed a blow. (See, “US judge orders
Haitian strongman to pay $19.5 million to rape victims,
AP, October 25, 2006, )
But the rare verdict against Haitian war criminals and political
terrorists has been handed down before with one or two of these
US/Euro-sponsored warlords and poverty pimps. Colonel Carl Dorélien’s
November 2000 US verdict and conviction for conspiracy and complicity
in murder and other crimes in connection with the Raboteau massacre
is a case in point; or the Haitian justice system's convictions
of the many other Raboteau warlords. But these conviction were
never prosecuted to completion, and were effectively vacated or
voided during the 2004 coup d’etat and under the reign of
the Boca Raton Regime’s coup d’etat judges. (See,
Haiti:
http://www.cja.org/cases/dorelien.shtml : Amnesty
International - http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engamr360132004)
According to Amnesty International, all the Haitian warlords listed
below ESCAPED prison during the 2004 coup and roam freely in Haiti.
Three days after the Feb. 2004 coup d’etat, on March 3,
2004, Amnesty International issued an urgent action release listing
these escapees and calling on the international community, through
its Multinational Interim Force, “to take immediate steps
to counter the threat to human rights and the rule of law posed
by these individuals.” Neither the UN nor the Multinational
Interim force attempted to capture and re-imprison these coup
d’etat warlords that always commit crimes and human rights
abuses on behalf of foreign interests. In fact, ten years back-pay
was given to the former Haitian army under the imposed Boca Raton
regime, the Raboteau verdicts against military leaders involved
in the 1994 mass massacres of residents in Gonaives were summarily
overturned by Latortue’s coup detat Supreme Court; and,
in a sham overnight trial, Louis Jodel Chamblain’s conviction
for Antoine Izmery’s assassination was voided. He
was acquitted for the Site Soleil burnings in the first
coup d'etat, Antoine Izmery's murder and for war crimes as the
#2 strongmen for the death squad, FRAPH
( http://www.williambowles.info/haiti-news/2005/hlln_100505.html
)
Wanted Haitian criminal, Guy
Phillipe, the agent who led the failed 2001 and 2002
coup d'etat attempts, and a DEA-accused drug-trafficker, was provided
major international press coverage, with an “embedded”
reported in his vehicles as he and his commandos crossed the border
from the Dominican Republic to attack police and civilians during
his 2004 coup d’etat killing rampage. Phillipe was fêted
and interviewed on major corporate press, including on CNN with
Wolf Blitzer during his murderous rampage as shocked Haitians
watched abroad in complete horror. He was called a “freedom
fighter” by Latortue, and propped-up and allowed to run
for president of Haiti after he had oustered the legitimate President
as if he wasn't a known criminal to the Haitian people. Phillipe
received less than 1% of the vote in the elections. But, to his
foreign handlers, he, like Latortue, are still "honorable"
men. During the 2004 coup d'etat attacks on the police and jails,
over 3,000 prisoners, murderers, thieves, rapists and crooks,
were set free. Guy Phillipe, Louis Jodel Chamblain and a great
many other bloody military and paramilitary officers, roam Haiti
freely right now, while thousands of innocent political prisoners
are still in jail and the Empire forbids Haiti’s democratically
elected president from returning to the country of his birth.
(From
Thug to Freedom Fighters,
COHA, Larry Birns and Seth
DeLong, December 14, 2004).
On March 3, 2004, Amnesty International had issued this statement:
 |
| Escaped
from prison during current (Feb. 2004) crisis and of concern:
Jean-Claude Duperval - deputy commander
in chief of the army convicted in Raboteau massacre trial.
Sentenced to forced labour for life and returned to Haiti
from the USA to serve the sentence.
Hébert Valmond - lieutenant colonel
and head of military intelligence convicted in Raboteau
massacre trial. Sentenced to forced labour for life and
returned to Haiti from the USA to serve the sentence.
Carl Dorelien - Colonel convicted in
Raboteau massacre trial. Sentenced to forced labour for
life and returned to Haiti from the USA to serve the sentence.
Jackson Joanis - military police captain
convicted of the extrajudicial execution of Antoine Izméry,
and sentenced to forced labour for life. Returned from
the USA to Haiti to serve the sentence. Also indicted
in the investigation into the assassination of Father
Jean Marie Vincent; case not yet brought to trial.
Castera Cénafils - army captain convicted in Raboteau
massacre trial. Sentenced to forced labour for life.
Prosper Avril- General and leader of
the 1988 coup d'état, indicted in the investigation
into the 1990 Piatre massacre; case not yet brought to
trial. (For full statement, go to: Amnesty International
- “Haiti: Perpetrators of past abuses threaten human
rights and the reestablishment of the rule of law”
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engamr360132004)
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In fact, General Prosper Avril
was prominently seated, in front rows with the International community
representatives who employed him, during President Preval’s
2006 inauguration. The irony here is that it was President Preval
himself who had personally participated in the initial arrest
of Prosper Avril during Preval’s first presidency from 1995
to 2000 for his mass killings and human rights abuses. (See Hope
and Humiliation: HLLN’s analysis of May 18, 2006
and the Inaugural of President Rene Preval by Ezili Dantò
of HLLN.) The legacy of impunity in Haiti of the sector working
against Haitian national interests, and for their war crimes,
continues virtually unabated.
CONCLUSION
When will the likes of IRI's Stanley Lucas, sweatshop kingpin,
Andre Apaid, the Afebril-scandal-Bouloses, or the Charles Henri
Bakers and their Euro/US handlers face dishonor, to say the least
of criminal chargers, convictions and judicial punishment that
stick, for the Haitian murders, mayhems, massacres and political
destabilizations and instabilities they strum up in Haiti that
cause unspeakable suffering to the Haitian majority and destroys
Haitian image internationally? (See, for instance, Children
growing up without deported mom By Dianna Smith, Palm
Beach Post Staff Writer | October 22, 2006; Haiti's
Desperate Women).
Haiti has gone through not one, but two US/Euro-sponsored coup
d'etats in less than fourteen years. No one from this international
sector, with multiple passports has been seriously hampered in
their repugnant tasks in Haiti.
Lame Timachet, the rogue Haitian police and other such coup d'etat
executioners, emboldened under the Latortue regime, carried out
and still are carrying out the role FRAPH held under the first
Coup d'etat as death squad assassins. Political destabilization
is Stanley Lucas' specialty and with his various tracts, (like
the one noted below), he pecks at the Preval Government, doing
what he does best for Washington: to bring on another forceful
ouster of a democratically elected Haitian President, the result
of which is always the death and further misery of thousands upon
thousands of innocent Haitian civilians. (See, Stanley
Lucas' Management Without Principles: A Familiar Path
to Chaos in Haiti, Oct. 28, 2006 ).
When will Guy
Malary and the peasants of Piatre, the peasants of
Jean Rabel and the 2004 coup d'etat victims of Fort National,
Bel Air, Site Soley, Gran Ravin get a hearing? Whether its IRI's
Stanley Lucas, the bloody Haitian army's Guy Phillipe, or FRAPH's
Toto Constant; if the world was governed by laws, the time would
come when their Washington handlers would not be able to shield
these Haitian warlords from prosecution, conviction and actual
punishment, for their heinous crimes in Haiti.
When that time does come, when the corporate press stops citing
these murderers as if they were representative of Haitian society
at large, when that time comes when the Haitian struggle will
be contextualized by those writing "human rights" reports
on Haiti, that will be when the era of complete impunity in Haiti,
of the Washington protected or economic elite and their military-arms,
will end. And, Haiti's people may begin to build a sovereign,
independent and progressive nation. (See, http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/voting.html#malary
and http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/bushblock.html
)Until that day, the Haitian majority, trying to make authentic
Jean Jacques Dessalines' ideals and legacy, has no choice but
to continue to protest with their life, their breath, talents
and skills, the rage of the world's rabid elites. No choice but
to continue struggling, from one generation to the next, for inclusion,
for equality, for justice and for economic democracy. (See,
"We Will Fight From One Generation to the Next: Remembering
Genevieve 'Kòkòt' Laguerre, her living
legacy, Remembering a proud Haitian Continuum” | Sept. 9,
2006 )
Haitians of the mother and father soul of Haiti know no alternative
to slavery, in all its forms, except freedom. They are continually
facing the hypocrisy of the International Community and making
a way out of no way. They wait without hate for when that day
comes when the Haitian problem will correctly be stated by one
and all. ("Why
the Hostility Towards Me: We've Not Met Before" by
Ezili Dantò of HLLN, from the Red, Black & Moonlight
monologues.)
When that day comes, Haiti will no longer have this endemic problem
of coup d’etats, state orchestrated violence, containment-in-poverty
and the blanket impunity of the economic elites who deliberately
cause most of this damage to Haiti and how it is perceived.
Ezili Dantò
Founder and President,
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
Oct. 30, 2006
For the October 17th Events - HLLN's FreeHaitiMovement - Dessaline
is Rising Worldwide
Links Noted:
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Q
& A with Haitian President Preval, Miami Herald
Jamaican Gleaner, Oct 26, 2006 http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/latortuelegacy.html#interview
Haiti:
Security and the Reintegration of the State Int'l Crisis Group,
Oct, 2006
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4475&l=1
Media
release for of the Intl' Crisis Group on Haiti: Security and the
Reintegration of the State
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4475&m=1;
Pointing
Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth;
Comparing
crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
;
Stanley
Lucas' Management Without Principles: A Familiar Path to Chaos
in Haiti ,Oct. 28, 2006
Recommended
Links on Stanley Lucas and IRI
Response
#1: Letter from Mr. Emmanuel to Stanley Lucas
in reference to: Margeurite Laurent: Mwen se kiye bwa mwen pa
pe chale"- The new and modern incompetent "intellectual"
house nigger.
Response
#2 on Stanley Lucas from Yves Erols:
"Zili, pa pedi tan ou avek tyoul blan sa-yo, apatrid sa-yo,
moun ki abitye kraze peyi sa-yo... "
Response
#3 on Sanley Lucas from Michel Sanon: "
Kiyè bwa oubyen Tizon dife?" Nov. 3, 2006
Haitian pro-democracy group
(Jean Yves Point-du-Jour of "Democracy for Haiti") writes
letter protesting IRI delegation in Haiti (in Kreyol and English):
Statement concerning the visit of the members
of the International Republican Institute (IRI) in
Haiti this week, October 26, 2006 |yves@erols.com
Letter
from Stanley Lucas to HLLN entitled "Margeurite Laurent:
Mwen se kiye bwa mwen pa pe chale"
NY
Times on IRI and Stanley Lucas:
Democracy Undone | Back Channels vs. Democracy: Mixed U.S. Signals
Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG,
January 29, 2006, New York Times
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Conspiracy or Not?
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Coincidence
or Intentional? -Is there
an International plan to depopulate and exterminate a large portion
of Haiti's population?
IRI's
former head man, Stanley Lucas, says he's inspired by Rwanda
The
Ottawa Initiative
on Haiti in 2003 demanded regime change in Haiti before January
1, 2004. At this high level meeting of Western diplomats, including
the OAS and European Union, Canada's foreign Minister, Denis Paradis,
reportedly stated that Haiti's internal problems is a "threat"
to North American countries because Haiti might have, by some
estimates, a population of 20 million by 2019. "It is a time
bomb," Paradis said, "which must be defused immediately."
(See,
Haiti Progres' Canadian
Officials Initiate Planning for Military Ouster of Aristide
| http://www.haiti-progres.com/2003/sm030305/eng03-05.html
Le
Rwanda et Haiti 12 ans Apres by Stanley Lucas, Nov. 2, 2006
Haiti Democracy Project's
Edwidge
Lalanne says 5% of the population (450,000) of Site Soley should
be physically eliminated
(in French)
According
to UN consultant, Johanna Mendelson, Haiti is a menace to its
neighbors, (Alterpress,
Oct. 25, 2006,
http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article5293; See also, Johanna
Mendelson at USIP/Haiti Democracy Project's workshop with Jacques
Bernard, the discredited CEP Executive director. Listen to Mendelson
at the USIP workshop Jacques Bernard was flown out off Haiti to,
in a "special flight" arranged by the US Embassy, to
appear at after his hatchet job in the elections. Listen to C-Span’s
Haiti coverage; to HDP and Washington’s first use of Jacques
Bernard the way they used zealots, Leon Manus and Pierre Paquiot
to undermine Haiti’s elected government: www.usip.org/events/2006/0222_haiti.html
)
HLLN's
comments on the Edwidge Lalanne Declaration to exterminate 5%
of Site Soley
Judge
Orders Top Haitian police, Arrested
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RandallRobinson.com
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Randall
Robinson on " An Unbroken Agony: Haiti: From Revolution to
the Kidnapping of a President,
Democracy
Now!,
July 23rd, 2007
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From
Thug to Freedom Fighters,
COHA, Larry Birns and Seth
DeLong, December 14, 2004
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Haiti's
Desperate Women
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Updated link-
Guy
Philippe wanted on Drug charges- U.S. and Haiti to continue Joint
Offensive,
AP, July 20, 2007
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