[News] In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity

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In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African 
Solidarity Kenya's offer to deploy 1,000 police officers ostensibly to 
“restore order” in Haiti is nothing more than Western imperialism in 
Black face.
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*In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity*

*For Immediate Release*

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  AUGUST 3, 2023—The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns in the 
strongest possible terms Kenya’s proposal to lead what amounts to a 
foreign armed intervention in Haiti.

Kenya has offered to deploy a contingent of 1,000 police officers to 
help train and assist Haitian police, ostensibly to “restore order” in 
the Caribbean republic. Yet, their proposal is nothing more than 
military occupation by another name; an occupation of Haiti by an 
African country is not Pan-Africanism, but Western imperialism in Black 
face. By agreeing to send troops into Haiti, the Kenyan government is 
assisting in undermining the sovereignty and self-determination of 
Haitian people, while serving the neocolonial interests of the United 
States, the Core Group, and the United Nations.

There is an urgent need for clarity on the issue of occupation in Haiti. 
As described in a recent statement on Haiti and Colonialism 
<https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=95bbee8d6c&e=ed3ff5aa60>, 
Haiti is under ongoing occupation. No call for foreign intervention into 
Haiti from the administration of appointed Prime Minister Ariel Henry 
can be considered legitimate, because the Henry administration itself is 
illegitimate. BAP has repeatedly pointed out that Haiti’s crisis is a 
crisis of imperialism 
<https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=9a40a2a424&e=ed3ff5aa60>. 
Haiti’s current unpopular and unelected government is propped up only by 
Haiti’s de facto imperial rulers: the unseemly confederacy of the Core 
Group countries and organizations, as well as BINUH (the United Nations 
Integrated Office in Haiti), and a loose alliance of foreign 
corporations and local elites.

Henry and the UN have made a mockery of sovereignty by mouthing the 
slogan “Haitian solutions to Haitian problems,” yet finding the only 
solution in violence through foreign military intervention. After 
repeated failed attempts to organize an occupying force to protect their 
interests and impose their will on the Haitian people (including appeals 
to the multinational organization, the Caribbean Community [CARICOM] for 
troops), they have now found a willing accomplice in Kenya, an east 
African country with its own set of internal problems.

As Austin Cole, co-coordinator of the BAP Haiti/Americas Team, argues: 
“At best, Kenya is allowing itself to be used in a violent line of 
neocolonial puppetry that will inevitably result in more death and 
imperial plunder for the masses of Haitians. At worst, Kenya sees this 
as an easy opportunity to serve the colonial ‘masters’ and win favor for 
political and financial needs.”

Indeed, what’s in it for Kenya? An opportunity to both train and enhance 
the salaries of local police forces and garner a patina of prestige, or 
at least bootlicking approval, from the West. And for Haiti? White blows 
from a Black hand and a further erosion of their sovereignty.

BAP demands that Kenya rescind their proposal to send 1,000 police to 
Haiti, while calling on the Kenyan people to join the Haitian masses and 
radical voices worldwide in condemning the continued occupation and 
governance of Haiti by the Core Group and the UN.

***No to occupation. No to foreign intervention. No to Black face 
imperialism. Yes to sovereignty. Yes to a true Pan-African alliance 
between the people of Haiti and Kenya.*



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