The Haiti occupation continues

Canada provided the "soft" support for regime change in Haiti. Just playing our part in the imperial order of things. Like all the other countries we have helped rid of their insufferable elected governments it seems that the conditions that were used as an excuse for the original coup are far worse not better.

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday, according to a statement from the country’s interim prime minister, who called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-killed-b56a0f8f...

 

Aristide was the best chance Haiti to develop, but the US, France, the UK and Canada made sure he lost power and preferred he be replaced by narco paramilitary allies. 

I completely agree with you, Jerry. The ouster of Aristide was criminal.

In recent months, as the country erupted in protest over abuse of power by the political elite, Mr. Célestin has been parrying accusations of corruption from Haitian activists over his purchase of a mansion almost 2,000 miles away in Canada.

The sprawling $3.4 million villa, with its 10-car garage, home cinema and swimming pool overlooking a lake, was among the most expensive homes ever sold in one of Quebec’s most affluent neighborhoods, and the purchase set off a corruption investigation into Mr. Célestin by officials in Haiti.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/world/canada/Haiti-Canada-Celestin-corruption.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Wow. After 18 years of the western media vilifying Aristide, NYTimes publishes this report that finally confirms that the US, France and Canada orchestrated a coup against him in 2004, partly to kill his national campaign for reparations from France.

Demanding Reparations,and Ending Up in Exile

The shock came midway through the speech.

“Reparation!” boomed Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s firebrand president, to the cheers of the farmers, workers and students in the crowd.

The French ambassador sitting on stage hid his alarm behind an awkward smile. He knew Mr. Aristide well enough to expect barbs at Haiti’s former French colonizers and slave masters. But on that day, April 7, 2003, the president suddenly started calling for reparations, a bombshell that became a hallmark of his presidency — and, diplomats now concede, part of his undoing.

“We had to try to defuse it,” the French ambassador, Yves Gaudeul, said of Mr. Aristide’s call for reparations, calling it an “explosive.”

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“We were very disdainful of Haiti,” Mr. Gaudeul recalled. “What I think we will never forgive Haiti for, deep down, is that it is the country that beat us.”

Even after Mr. Aristide’s removal in 2004, the calls for restitution have continued to reverberate, leading to a stunning concession more than a decade later by François Hollande, France’s president, who referred to the money Haiti was forced to hand over as “the ransom of independence.”

Since then, scholars have increasingly explored the history of Haiti’s payments. Just this past December, at a conference on the grounds of the French Finance Ministry, one of the most prominent French historians on relations between the two countries, Jean-François Brière, called the payments a form of “meta-slavery” that prevented Haiti from breaking free of France, long after independence.

“All French people are affected” by the nation’s past in Haiti, said Jean-Marc Ayrault, a former French prime minister. Yet, he said, French students don’t learn about it and few officials discuss it.

“It’s never taught,” he said. “It’s never explained.”.....

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his wife, Mildred Trouillot, and bodyguards on April 7, 2003, when he asked France for reparations.Credit...Thony Belizaire/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A week after President Aristide was ousted from power, American Marines on patrol in Haiti in 2004, left, were followed by a taunting crowd of his supporters.

Haiti remains mired in poverty and injustice based on heavy handed meddling of western powers. This is the fate that possibly awaits Venezuela and Cuba if they stop fighting for the control of their own destinies. Although, it seems that Haiti has always been stomped over and abused more than most other nations.

On another note, how is Aristide and his family doing? I can't remeber what country they escaped to but I hope they are well.

Protesters Reject Call for Deployment of Foreign Forces to Haiti

In Haiti, several people were shot Monday — at least one of them fatally — after police fired tear gas on thousands of protesters who took to the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince. Protesters demanded the resignation of the U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry and called on the government to reverse its decision to seek foreign military assistance.

Jean Levelt: “Unemployment, the high cost of living, insecurity — it is all for these reasons that I am in the street. I take to the streets to say no to the occupation.”

The United Nations is urging the activation of a “rapid action force” to Haiti to combat armed gangs that have blockaded the main terminal in Port-au-Prince, blocking imports of food, fuel and other necessities. This comes amid warnings of a looming public health disaster after a new outbreak of cholera emerged this month. In 2010, U.N. peacekeepers inadvertently sparked a cholera outbreak that killed 10,000 people, and U.N. forces in Haiti have been accused of sexual violence.

So basically ignore Haiti? Give no aid, give no troops, cops, hospital workers or UN intervention of any kind and let the country itself solve its own problems?

Bacchus wrote:

So basically ignore Haiti? Give no aid, give no troops, cops, hospital workers or UN intervention of any kind and let the country itself solve its own problems?

It might be an interesting experiment. We've sent Haiti over 2 billion dollars. Let's use that money in the future on Canadian health care and dental care instead.

86% of Haitian-Canadians live in Quebec. The Liberals are safe to upset them.

Personally? I think anything we (the world) does will be criticized to hell and back so I would recommend we do exactly as they ask and send nothing

..txs. agreed.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/haiti-gang-makes-demands-in-test-of-power-w...

Later in the day, a report from UN agencies and international aid groups said a record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in the gang-controlled Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince.

It is also becoming a crisis for women. The United Nations Population Fund said Friday that 30,000 pregnant women are at risk because roughly three-fourths of Haiti's hospitals are unable to provide services due to a lack of fuel.

In addition, gangs are increasingly raping women and girls, as well as boys and to some extent men, to exert and retain control over territory, according to a UN Human Rights report released Friday.

Helen La Lime, the top UN official in Haiti, told reporters that human rights abuses including rape and sexual assault have reached alarming levels.

"The testimonies of victims are truly horrible," she said. "This must stop."

Arnaud Gustave Royer, with the UN's Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, noted that one woman saw gangs execute her husband and was then raped by several armed men in front of her four children for several hours.

"Rape becomes a weapon, a tactic for gangs," he said, adding that the acts committed are extremely violent and done in front of family members to humiliate victims.

Gangs, who control an estimated 60 per cent of Port-au-Prince, have raped children as young as 10 and elderly women as well, according to the UN report.

In one case, a 12-year-old boy was raped by five individuals who just minutes before had raped his older sister during gang clashes in April, the UN said: "A few days later, his body was found, with a gunshot wound to the head, laying on a pile of garbage in an abandoned area."

U.N. Secretary-General Calls for “Armed Action” in Haiti

The United Nations is calling for “armed action” in Haiti amid worsening violence and instability as gangs continue to control much of the country. A weeklong blockade of a key port in Port-au-Prince by gangs has led to a critical shortage of fuel, food and water for millions of people and has hindered efforts to respond to a new outbreak of cholera in Haiti. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the crisis Monday.

Secretary-General António Guterres: “It’s an absolutely nightmarish situation for the population of Haiti, especially Port-au-Prince. … I believe that we need not only to strengthen the police, strengthening it with training, with equipment, with a number of other measures, but that in the present circumstances we need an armed action to release the port and to allow for a humanitarian corridor to be established.”

The answer to your question is obvious. Russians are the real criminals that deserve to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Don't we have enough whataboutism on this board already without trying to discredit the US once again. Going back twenty years ignores that history started in February of 2022. Any crime against humanity committed before that date is not to be raised, except by tankies.