[News] Stop Haiti's Electoral Coup, Violence & Repression Against Protestors
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*//**//****STOP HAITI’S ELECTORAL COUP & VIOLENCE & REPRESSION VS
PROTESTERS! *
Two days after Haitians marked the 213^th anniversary of their
revolution, onJanuary 3, 2017 Haiti’s electoral council ignored massive
protests and named Jovenel Moise Haiti’s new President. Jovenel Moise
is a businessman handpicked by former Duvalierist President Michel
Martelly and backed by the US and the EU. The process by the US/UN
occupation of re-imposing a dictatorship on the Haitian people, which
began with the 2004 coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
is becoming further entrenched.
Thousands of protestors decrying massive fraud in Haiti’s recent
Presidential and legislative electionshave taken to the streets daily
since the November 20^th election. They are being met with violence and
other repression by UN trained/supervised police including tear gas,
bullets, batons and rifle butts.
lCrowds are being shot at with both rubber and real bullets. On
Christmas Eve, heavily armed militarized police shot indiscriminately
into a crowd of thousands, and many demonstrators were wounded.
l Protestors are being repulsed with water cannons – a caustic irritant
has been added to the water which burns people’s skin.
l Tear gas has been lobbed by police into sleeping communities known to
be strongholds of Lavalas support. Three babies suffocated to death as
a result of the amount and strength of tear gas used.
*Jovenel Moise has announced that his government will build more prisons
and pass a law to further limit freedom of alternative media.*Already
reporters from Radio Timoun, an alternative media outlet, have been
violently attacked.
The Provisional Electoral Council or CEP, with the cooperation of the
US, EU and UN ‘peacekeeping’ forces, swept evidence of massive fraud
under the rug and orchestrated an electoral coup d’etat favoring the
candidate of the business elite as Haiti’s new President. See /Human
Rights and Alternative Media Delegation
Report**/http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/human-rights-and-alternative-media-delegation-report-haiti-november-20th-elections.
Three major candidates formally protested the fraudulent election
results including Dr. Maryse Narcisse, the candidate of Fanmi Lavalas
the political party and movement headed by Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Haiti's first democratically elected president. But the protesting
candidates and their legal representatives were denied access by CEP
judges to the tally sheets - this after they discovered and objected to
massive discrepancies in the tally sheets they initially had access to.
The fraud was so grossly blatant and massive that, in a sample being
verified before access was denied, 85% of the votes for Jovenel Moise
were disqualified. Lavalas has issued a communique rejecting the
fraudulent results of the CEP and calling on people to mobilize against
this massively orchestrated fraud/electoral coup d/etat.
The Haitian grassroots are yet again risking their lives for the right
to choose their own president. In the lead up to the election, 68
Haitian grassroots organization issued a a statement calling
for solidarity with Haiti's struggle for free and fair elections,
dignity and justice under the banner, Nou Pap Obeyi - We Will Not Obey
Illegitimate Authority. Excerpt from the Statement of 68 Grassroots
Organizations:
/"Right after the earthquake, the internationals took advantage of our
momentary state of helplessness to occupy the political space. Today,
the Haitian people are engaged in an all out struggle to reclaim that
space and to exercise their right to vote. The very ones who hijacked
the reconstruction money want to prevent the people from choosing their
government, in a wide scale conspiracy to continue the looting of the
country’s resources... The Haitian people…are in a fight for their very
existence. We say NO, WE WILL NOT OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS... Today,
confronted by the danger presented by local and international
colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE
movement. We ask for people to people solidarity from everywhere on the
planet."/
“/Nou Pap Obeyi”/ is a powerful slogan for all as we approach the new
and challenging years ahead. Stand with the people of Haiti and their
resistance to this electoral coup - we all owe Haiti a great debt
beginning with their 1804 revolution that defeated the powerful French
army of Napoleon and led the way for the ending of slavery in the Americas.
*
**What you can do:*
·Circulate this information, not covered by corporate media, to your
friends and networks
·Contact US officials to protest US complicity in voter suppression and
fraud, and to urge the US not to recognize this fraudulently-elected
leader of Haiti
-President Obama: 202-456-1111 <tel:202-456-1111>
-US State Department: haitispecialcoordinator at state.gov
<mailto:haitispecialcoordinator at state.gov>, Secretary Kerry @John Kerry
-Your Member of Congress: 202-224 3121 <tel:202-224%203121>
·Protest to the UN Mission in Haiti and demand an end to violent
suppression of free speech:
minustah-info at un.org <mailto:minustah-info at un.org>
·Donate to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, which supports democracy,
independent media, education and more in
Haiti**at:www.haitiemergencyrelief.org
<http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/>
*Issued by: Haiti Action Committee, Global Women’s Strike & Women of
Color/GWS*
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**For more info:
*https://www.facebook.com/Haiti-Action-Committee-262983839885/*
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**For additional independent news coverage:
*http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18067
https://soundcloud.com/sojournertruthradio/sojourner-truth-radio-moise-confirmed-haitian-president-despite-voter-suppression-and-mass-protest?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:17816:Protesters-in-Haiti-Say-Moise-Victory-Amounts-to-%27Electoral-Coup%27
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=247221
https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-december-20-2016/
http://sfbayview.com/2016/11/the-people-of-haiti-are-under-attack-as-they-fight-for-their-liberation/
http://sfbayview.com/2016/12/resisting-the-lynching-of-haitian-liberty/
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