[News] BAP Rejects U.S./U.N./CARICOM Plan for An Armed Intervention of Haiti

Mon Jul 17 13:19:02 EDT 2023

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*Black Alliance for Peace Once Again Calls on International Community To 
Reject U.S./U.N./CARICOM Plan for An Armed Intervention of Haiti*

/No to Foreign Militarism, Yes to Self-Determination!/

For Immediate Release  July 17, 2023

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The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) is alarmed that representatives of 
the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are at the forefront of the call for 
armed intervention in Haiti calling on Rwanda and Kenya to help lead the 
charge. Once again the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls on the 
international community to reject U.S., UN, and CARICOM plans for an 
armed intervention in Haiti. We have been consistent 
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in our support for Haitian people who view the presence of the United 
Nations Integrated Office (BINUH) and the Core Group as a foreign 
occupation. Since 2004, they have suppressed Haiti’s independence and 
sovereignty. A U.S./UN-led armed foreign intervention in Haiti is not 
only illegitimate, but illegal.

CARICOM has caved in 
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to pressure from the Biden administration and now supports the US/UN 
plan to violently attack Haiti under the racist guise of humanitarian 
intervention. This stance reverses a position that many members of 
CARICOM held early this spring; at that time, the organization’s 
president and Prime Minister of Bahamas, Philip Davis, said that the 
Caribbean countries had no intention of sending forces to Haiti. BAP 
condemns CARICOM’s betrayal of the people of Haiti and their complicity 
in surrendering regional sovereignty to the U.S. and the Core Group’s 
undemocratic and imperialist aims.

And what was the argument advanced by U.S. officials concerning Haiti? 
We are told that the interest of the U.S. is humanitarian, that it wants 
to protect the Haitian people from gang violence. Yet, no mention has 
been made of the Haitian people’s constant call for the disbanding of 
the Core Group, for an arms embargo against the Haitian and U.S. elite 
who import guns into the country, for the end of support for Haiti’s 
installed puppet government, and for the deep financial crises placed on 
the people by the IMF-led move to remove fuel subsidies. There are no 
calls to build either hospitals or schools. And there are no efforts to 
provide asylum for the thousands of Haitians in the United States, 
Mexico – and the CARICOM countries themselves.

The call for an armed intervention of Haiti is not about 
humanitarianism. Indeed, as Erica Caines, co-coordinator of BAP’s 
Haiti/Americas Team, argues:

  “It is an ahistorical absurdity that U.S. officials would have any 
concerns about the lives of the Black people of Haiti. The U.S. has one 
agenda, and one agenda only, and that is to maintain its hegemonic 
control over the peoples and territories of the Caribbean and Latin 
America. The real reason for the violent intervention into Haiti by the 
U.S. with its European allies, is to shore-up the undemocratic and 
illegitimate government of Ariel Henry.”

It is understandable that unprincipled servants to white power like 
Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the U.S. House Democrats who attended the 
CARICOM meeting along with the warmongering U.S. Secretary of State 
Anthony Blinken, would advocate for an imperialist military assault into 
Haiti to prop-up its unelected puppet regime. But it is a sad day for 
the Caribbean that a majority of the Black heads of state in CARICOM 
have agreed to give political cover to this white power intervention 
against the dignity and rights of the Haitian people. As we said in our 
earlier letter 
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to CARICOM, “We call on your countries to respect Haitian sovereignty 
and to support the Haitian masses in their stand against the ongoing 
occupation of their country by foreign powers.”

BAP, once again, is also compelled to call on the representatives of the 
People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation to vote against 
any UNSC resolution sanctioning military force to Haiti.

In our initial communication 
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with the representatives from Russia and China, we made it clear that, 
“in alignment with the wishes of the Haitian masses and their 
supporters, [we] absolutely stand against any foreign armed intervention 
in Haiti.” We further demand a stop to the unending meddling in Haitian 
affairs by the United States and Western powers. We hope that the 
Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China will stand with 
the people of Haiti in its fight for liberation by voting NO on another 
military invasion to brutalize the long-suffering Haitian masses.

*No to Occupation! No to Foreign Militarism! No to CARICOM Neocolonialism!*

*Yes to Self-Determination!*

*Link to online version:* 
blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/rejectcaricomhaitiintervention 
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