[News] U.N. Security Council goes to Haiti to save their death squad regime

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U.N. Security Council Goes To Haiti to Stop Calls for
Resignation of the Latortue Regime and support U.N.
troops accused of a failed mission and of conducting
summary executions,

By Marguerite Laurent
www.ezilidanto.com
April 16, 2005

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All 15 members of the United Nations Security Council
are in Haiti from April 12 to April 16, 2005 to,
according to their press release on the matter,
"review progress achieved in areas such as security,
development, the political transition, human rights,
institution-building and the humanitarian situation."

Well, if in fact it is human rights and security
“progress” the U.N. Security Council wants to review,
they won’t find any such progress. And please give
Haitians some credit. The great show of slaughtering
soldiers at Petit Goaves and Ravix and Jean Anthony
(Grenn Sonen) in Port-au-Prince less than a week
before the arrival of the U.N. Security Council’s
unprecedented visit, does not suddenly make the U.N.
troops in Haiti “progressive,” “un-biased” or
“peacekeepers” instead of the negative and ineffective
force they have been in Haiti since they got to Haiti.

If the U.N. Security Council would deign to hear the
sons and daughters of the majority of HAITIANS on the
issue of democracy in Haiti, then they would know that
Haitians are suffering more under the auspices of U.N.
troops, there to support the U.N./U.S.-backed Latortue
government, than they have ever suffered under the
Constitutional government it replaced.

If the U.N. Security Council would deign to hear the
sons and daughters of the majority of HAITIANS on the
issue of democracy in Haiti, then the Haitian Lawyers
Leadership Network would urge the U.N. Security
Council to pay very close attention to the new report
on the socio-political, human rights and next
electoral contest situation in Haiti, released by our
lawyers in Haiti, The Association of University
Graduates Motivated For A Haiti With Rights “AUMOHD.”
(Aumohd’s report may be found on our website under the
human rights section)

Haitians are the most politicized people on earth and
they well understand the subterfuges of diplomacy and
the function of politics and propaganda. It is a
mistake to believe that illiterate means
unintelligent. Or, for that matter, that schooling
means one is intelligent.

Kanpe bourik la, that's kreyol for ­ hold up!
understand this - : To many Haitians the U.N. Security
Council's visit is nothing more than an effort to
reconcile the bourgeoisie forces who were just last
week all clamoring for the resignation of Latortue.
The visit’s purpose it to us basically an effort to
solidify and reunite the unraveling immoral coalition
of restavek-elites who helped overthrow Haiti's
elected government. That’s it. A public relations
STUNT to turn the tide towards the original agenda:
Never let the Lavalas party ever be able to win an
election in Haiti again and mount its socially
progressive programs. That’s the agenda. It’s the one
that is being put back on track by the U.N. Security
Council’s visit. Already we are hearing: more
policemen will be sent to Haiti. Of course no one
mentions their function is to kill, kill, kill
peaceful demonstrators and any one supporting Lavalas,
democracy or resisting foreign debt, dependence and
occupation. No that is what’s left unsaid. But there
are plenty of announcements and hand shaking with Gwo
Gerard Latortue and his other fat cats as he grins
from ear to ear greedily thinking about more money for
arms, for bullets, for paying down foreign debt. But
none for literacy programs, affordable housing,
schooling, potable water, electricity, roads,
transportation, sewage systems, to subsidize the high
price of rice, gas or to create jobs with a living
wage for the people.

Just more monies will be thrown to the Coup d’etat
bunch. More and more, that is, for the people of Haiti
to owe which foreign “experts” and the tiny rich
elites will cash in foreign banks, all in an effort to
legitimize the coup d’etat with a selection of Haiti’s
next leader by the U.S., France and Canada.

The presence of the U.N. Security council in Haiti is
to have these colonized Haitian puppies, who have no
popular support in Haiti, whose hold on power over the
masses right now are threaded together only by foreign
monies, foreign troops, a foreign-backed coup, and
media disinformation. The U.N. Security council is in
Haiti to pamper the bourgeoisies’ ruffled feathers ­
hey they neither got the monies promised ($1 billion)
as reward for giving a Haitian face to the coup
d’etat, nor the government positions they thought were
owed. The U.S. pulled out Gwo Gerard and not one of
their own from the former opposition. But no worries.
Papa U.S. will make it better ­ through Brazil,
through the U.N. Security Council, to show the support
it cannot show publicly. See, President Bush can’t get
too publicly INVOLVED with bringing back dictatorship
to Haiti when he’s supposed to be spreading democracy
around the globe.

It’s all doable though. Because now that the Coup
d’etat contingent are rubbing shoulders with the rich
and powerful surrogates of the Western powers, the
U.N. Security Council, no less. Well, they feel
better. They’ll hold up on clamoring for Gwo Gerard’s
resignation.

That’s what all the theatrics (slaughtering of former
soldiers) leading up to the meet with the
powers-that-be-and-rub-shoulders-and-get-validated was
about. The desires and democratic and justice needs of
the ordinary Haitians in Cite Soleil, Bel Air, Milot,
Petit Goave, Au Cayes, well, it’s not and has never
been a real part of the equation. Ambassador Foley’s
agenda for Haiti is simply back on track.

HAITIAN STREET DEMONSTRATOR: "The Whites are shouting
elections, elections, ELECTIONS for Haiti! Elections
have become the new chain the former slave-owners and
their black overseers want to encircle around black
feet in Haiti. Where was the U.N. Security Council
when Caricom called for assistance, when President
Aristide called for assistance that would have shored
up the elected Haitian government? Now that the
people's voting rights have been trashed, their voices
silenced, their freedom taken away, their country
occupied, now the Whites and the bourgeoisie can't
stop calling for elections in Haiti...."

The demonstrators on the streets of Haiti are saying
that Haiti's slide into complete lawlessness started
with the bi-centennial coup and continues today with
most of the former Haitian military, known human
rights abusers, drug dealers, gangsters and rapists,
paid 5,000 each and restructured into the new “law and
order” state apparatus.

The demonstrators cannot forget the U.N. entered Haiti
to stop human rights abuses, protect civilians and now
suddenly all they are there to do is “prepare the
country for elections.” How can they when they are the
victims of the U.N. troops’ unwillingness to disarm
the coup d’etat instigators, the victims of the U.N.’s
willingness to arm the former military, paramilitary
and re-imaged them as “police” or so-called
“legitimate” political party candidates. The peaceful
demonstrators cannot conveniently forget that the
U.S./Canada and French soldiers invaded Haiti with the
U.N. Security council's permission to purportedly
"stop a bloodbath from occurring" after the ouster of
President Aristide. But a bloodbath wasn't averted at
all. More than 10,000 Haitians have been reported dead
as a result of the U.S.-backed regime change in Haiti.
And the human right situation that the U.N. allegedly
entered Haiti to stabilize has worsen, making Haiti a
hell on earth for the majority of poor Haitians.

In fact, let us not forget, the first thing the U.S.
Marines, who preceded the UN troops, did in Haiti was
allow the paid mercenary, Special forces-trained
assassin, Guy Phillipe, into Port au Prince while the
U.S. soldiers closed down the medical school doors to
over 200 Haitian medical students turning the school
into its army barracks.

Let us not forget that with the February 2004
bicentennial coup, more than three thousand (3,000)
hard core prisoners from the National Penitentiary
were simply let out of prison and are today roaming
the streets of Haiti killing, pillaging, raping and
generally presenting a significant danger and
contributing to the question of insecurity that has
increased rather than decreased as over 7,000 UN
troops strut through the streets of Haiti, weapon at
the ready.

Weapons, a few Haitians are saying, used to force
Haitian women into corners for UN soldiers to rape
them. Weapons that have summarily executed suspected
“chimeres” (“bandits”) including brutally murdered
pregnant Haitian women, as in Cite Soleil last week,
school children, market women, unarmed civilian
demonstrators and an unknown number of young black
Haitian men, who the interim government has
criminalized to dehumanized as "bandits" to justify
the summary execution. (See, Robert Muggah, Small Arms
Survey,
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/occasional.htm
in the
Globe and Mail, indicating that despite the U.N.
troops public position that they are on operations to
"disarm" armed factions, the Pentagon and the Bush
administration have sold at least $7 million worth of
arms to the
current U.S. installed regime in Haiti to equip a
police force summarily executing civilians in Haiti.
See, the Issue of Disarmament under Matters for
Investigations by OAS/Caricom, African Union, U.S.
Congress in Haiti.)

The U.N. soldiers along with Haitian police have been
accused by human rights activist of summary
executions. The current slaughter in Cite Soleil by
MINUSTHA is an example. Yet, Haiti doesn't have a
death penalty.

Even criminals, like for instance the ex-soldiers who
took up arms against the Constitutional government,
such as Ravix and Grenn Sonen, do not deserve to be
summarily executed by U.N. troops. No human being, who
is unarmed, wounded and defenseless, even a Hitler
deserves a trial if he could have been duly arrested
without risking any more innocent lives. That is what
civilization is about: the rule of LAWS!

According to reports both Ravix and Grenn Sonen (Jean
Anthony) were caught alive, were wounded, disarmed or
not even armed in the case of Ravix, and couldn't
defend themselves. Yes these guys are killers and
needed to be stopped but where is the example of
justice-at-work that the UN is supposed to be teaching
Haitians? How is pumping so many bullets into Ravix
and Grenn Sonen, to the point where their faces are
unrecognizable, a sign of democracy-at-work, an
example of "stopping the Haitian bloodletting?"

Because people who went to see these two bodies found
them so completely unrecognizably filled with bullets,
some Haitians are even speculating that both these
men, former military who took up arms against the
Constitutional government, were not actually killed by
their former benefactor's proxies, but were just taken
off the scene for SHOW. To prepare for the U.N.
Security Council's meeting in Haiti and show that the
U.N. troops were not only, for a year, presiding over
the killing of Lavalas supporters but are "fair and
even-handed" and are neutralizing all armed factions.
(See, Andrew Buncombe's article, "Bush Administration
'Broke its own embargo to sell arms to Haiti police'
and Robert Muggah's article in the globe and Main in
Canada "U.S. Funnels $7 million in Arms to haiti's
Puppet Regime, Death Squads"
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1303 )

The truth of the matter is, it is not hard to see why
Haitians don't trust the U.N., the U.S. or any of the
International Community bodies traditionally
supporting the armed factions for the bourgeoisie
against the people's liberation. The Haitian people
have been clear, they prefer to die than abdicate
their power as a nation, as a people to foreign-made
sweatshop kingpins and the variously elite architects
of the demise of justice and democracy in Haiti.

The U.N. Security Council members in Haiti could learn
a lot about what democracy means if they would come
down from the Montana mountain to observe the daily
demonstrations against the Coup d’etat which are bound
to continue. Even as they fall down under U.N.
bullets, even (it was reported that at yesterday’s
(April 15, 2005) demonstration for the return of
President Aristide, at least 10 peaceful demonstrators
were slaughtered) as innocent Haitian civilians
attempt to make their voices heard, even as young
Haitian men, who unlike the criminals freed from
prison as a result of the U.N. security council's
intervention, men who had no criminal record, are
continually arrested, brutally murdered by both
Haitian police and UN soldiers, they refuse to stop
calling for the physical return of President Aristide
and the Constitutional government.

“Democracy” the people of Haiti are saying means the
process by which they get better access to literacy,
health care, a living wage.

Elections is not a means in and of itself. It must
represent a believable-by-the people, for-the-people
push towards potable water, peace, justice, freedom of
expression, end of social repressions, summary
executions!. There can be no elections if the peoples’
call for justice, civil and human rights, for return
of President Aristide, for validation of their last
election, for respect for their will, there can be no
legitimate elections in Haiti if these demands of the
people of Haiti, are not part of the equation for the
U.N. security councils-backed elections in Haiti. Will
the U.N. Security Council hear the people of Haiti or
turn a deaf ear, blind eye and unwisely and
undemocratically continue pushing for an election the
Haitian majority has said it will not stand for unless
President Aristide is physically returned to Haiti,
all political prisoners are released, and all illegal,
arbitrary arrests, extended and improper detentions
and summary executions in Haiti stops.

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