[News] Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas - 31 years since the criminal assassins organized a coup d’etat against the Haitian people

[Anti-Imperialist News]

/Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish and circulate this 
statement from Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization. It was released on 
the 31st anniversary of the 1991 coup d’etat that overthrew Haiti’s 
first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and led 
to a reign of terror throughout the country. Today, the Haitian people 
are still resisting the same forces that organized that coup. We hope 
you will read the statement and circulate it widely./

*Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization*
*Press Release* 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/voices-from-haiti/fanmi-lavalas-press-release-sept-30-2022/>
* September 30th, 2022*
/(unofficial translation by Haiti Action Committee)/

September 30th, 1991 – September 30th, 2022: Thirty-one years since the 
criminal assassins, the enemies of change, organized a coup d’etat 
against the Haitian people. This was an attempt to destroy their dream 
for democracy to flourish in the country with peace of mind and peace in 
the stomach for everyone. On this day of September 30th, 1991, much 
blood was shed all over the country, especially in popular 
(working-class) neighborhoods where the anti-change forces massacred 
more than 5,000 people who had refused to accept this crushing system of 
exploitation.

Only seven months after the first free, fair and democratic election the 
country had ever known, when the people had chosen President Aristide to 
lead the country, the population was beginning to see the light of 
change. However, the criminals wanted to keep in place the system of 
corruption, the system that is established on the exclusion of the 
majority. September 30th, 1991, they massacred us with firearms, with 
machetes. To this day, the victims are demanding justice. Since that 
time, it has been one coup d’etat after another, which has brought about 
the high cost of living, misery and hunger. Added on to this today are 
insecurity, gangs and kidnappings-- all on top of the high cost of 
gasoline that threaten to bury us alive.

On the occasion of September 30th, Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization 
salutes the courage and determination of the Haitian people who are 
taking a strong stand all over the country to say that the system has 
come to its end. The people are saying that things must change. The 
population is rising against insecurity, gangs, massacres, kidnappings, 
corruption, high cost of living, and the price of gasoline that keeps 
rising on the backs of the population.

The struggle will never be over until we have blazed the trail with a 
transition that is a definitive break with this system, by establishing 
a Government for Public Safety (/Sali Piblik/). This is what this crisis 
has made necessary. This is what the population is demanding with 
determination everywhere in the country.

Mobilize! Mobilize! To bring the system of exclusion to an end. To move 
forward with a transition and a Government for Public Safety.

Alone we are weak, Together we are strong. All Together *WE ARE LAVALAS*

*Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas.*
Dr. Maryse Narcisse
M. Joėl Vorbe
Dr. Jean Myrto Julien
Agr. Anthony Dessources


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Celebrating 30 years of solidarity with the anti-colonial grassroots 
struggle for dignity, democracy and self-determination of the Haitian 
people!

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