[News] Powerful Statement from Haitian Women's and Popular Organizations

[Anti-Imperialist News]

/Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this press release issued 
by women’s and popular organizations in the Grandans department of 
Haiti. Their statement expresses solidarity with the neighborhoods of 
Bele, Solino and other working class areas where residents have been 
continually attacked by paramilitary death squads working with the 
Haitian police. Over the last few months, these death squads have 
assaulted over 20 urban and rural neighborhoods -- burning homes, raping 
women, killing women, men and children, and displacing hundreds of 
families in what amounts to a military terror campaign against the 
population./

/We hope that you will read this powerful statement and spread it far 
and wide -- and that we can come together to strengthen our solidarity 
with the Haitian people in the face of this terror./

Press Release - English Translation


Jeremi, March 17, 2023

Press Release


We members of women’s and popular organizations in the Grandans 
department raise our voices in solidarity with all women and men who are 
the victims of kidnappings, rape, assassinations, home burnings and 
pillage that the G9 gang and all the other gangs are perpetrating 
against the population.


We strongly condemn the dictatorial and criminal government of Ariel 
Henry along with the United States, France, Canada and the Core Group 
that have imposed Henry on the Haitian people. They continue to support 
him with weapons and money despite all the crimes against humanity 
conducted by the government against the people.


Videos, photos and media reports by the victims and witnesses describe 
how the police, combined with gangs, committed atrocities against women, 
men and children. Nothing was said for the victims, the justice system 
is silent, and all the authorities- Haitian as well as the foreigners 
who are occupying the country - are silent.


As the people of Haiti continually attest, we women in the Grandans are 
clear that since the coup d'etat of February 29, 2004, this has been the 
plan to wipe out the Haitian people and our country. We call on all 
women's organizations, popular organizations, students and all to stand 
against this system that generates the high cost of living, misery, 
corruption and rape that are destroying our lives. We call for the 
solidarity of people throughout the world so that democracy can again 
triumph in Haiti to uproot this blood-thirsty system.


For authentication:


Jeanette St. Juste, S-G



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Original Kreyol version

Jeremi Jou ki 17 Mas 2023

Nòt Pou Laprès


Nou menm fanm ak òganizasyon popilè nan depatman Grandans leve vwa n an 
solidarite ak tout fanm ak gason ki viktim: kidnaping, kadejak, zak 
asasinay, boule kay, ak piyay gang G9 ak tout lot gang pe fè popilasyon 
an sibi.


Nou kondane avèk tout fòs nou gouvenman diktatè, kriminèl Ariel Henry an 
ansanm avèk Etazini, Lafrans, Kanada ak Kò Gwoup ki te enpoze Ariel sou 
pèp Ayisyen an, ki kontinye sipote l ak zam ak lajan malgre tout krim 
kont limanite ke gouvènman an pe fè kont popilasyon an.


Videyo, foto ak temwayay nan laprès ke viktim yo ak temwen bay montre ke 
lapolis melanje ak gang fè zak atròs sou fanm, gason ak timoun. Pa janm 
gen yon mo ki di pou viktim yo, lajistis bèbè, tout otorite ayisyen kou 
etranje ki okipe peyi a bèbè.


Tankou konsta pèp ayisyen an fè, nou menm fanm Grandans nou wè depi 
koudeta 29 fevriye 2004 la, sa a se yon plan pou detwi pèp ayisyen an 
avèk peyi a. Nou mande tout oganizasyon fanm, oganizasyon popilè, 
etidyan, elatriye pou leve kanpe kont sistem sa a ki pote lavichè, 
lamizè, koripsyon ak kadejak kap detwi lavi nou. Nou mande solidarite 
tout pèp sou latè pou n fè demokrasi triyonfe yon lòt fwa ankò lan peyi 
Dayiti pou dechouke sistèm sanginè sa a.


Pou otantifikasyon:


Jeanette St. Juste, S-G



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