[News] 58+ Organizations Denounce UNSC's Approval to Send a Kenya-led Mission to Haiti

Wed Oct 4 12:40:59 EDT 2023

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*We Denounce UN Security Council's *

*Approval to Send a Kenya-led Mission to Haiti*

We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the decision by the United States 
and its allies to deploy a foreign military force to Haiti. We are 
adamant that a U.S./UN-led armed foreign intervention in Haiti is not 
only illegitimate, but illegal. And we support Haitian people and civil 
society organizations who have been consistent in their opposition to 
foreign armed military intervention – and who have argued that the 
problems of Haiti are a direct result of the persistent and long-term 
meddling of the United States, the United Nations, and the Core Group.

On Monday, October 2nd, 2023, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) 
voted on a resolution for a Multinational Security Support Mission 
authorizing the deployment of a foreign  military and police 
intervention into the Republic of Haiti. Although the vote did not 
receive unanimous approval as it saw abstentions from two permanent UNSC 
members, 13 other permanent and non-permanent members voted in support, 
including 3 African countries (Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique). This is a 
particularly egregious betrayal of Haiti, which has been for Africans 
and Black people around the world, a beacon in the fight against 
slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Yet the U.S. administration, the 
corporate media, alongside figures such as Linda Thomas-Greenfield, have 
hailed the vote as a victory. We note, also, that the U.S. has tapped 
Kenya, another African country, to lead a multinational force of 
“volunteer” nations to occupy Haiti, leaving their own troops at home 
while offering at leas t$100 million in support.

There is a long history here. For more than two years now, the U.S. has 
been pushing for a build-up of the military presence in Haiti to protect 
the puppet government of the unelected and unpopular Ariel Henry. Yet 
the U.S. is not willing to put its own boots on the ground, turning 
instead, first to Canada, then Brazil, then the CELAC and CARICOM 
countries–all of whom were reluctant to lead the mission, even if they 
supported the call for military intervention. The Kenyan government 
leapt at the opportunity to lead the intervention, bought off by a bag 
of silver and an approving pat on their neoliberal heads. Haiti will now 
be invaded by the U.S., but with the Black face of Kenya as cover. Kenya 
erroneously claims this is “Pan-Africanism;” it is, in fact, neocolonialism.

We are told that the interest of the U.S. in Haiti is humanitarian, that 
the U.S wants to protect the Haitian people from “criminal gangs.” Yet 
U.S. weapons have flooded Haiti, and the U.S. has consistently rejected 
calls to effectively enforce the UNSC resolution for an arms embargo 
against the Haitian and U.S. elite who import guns into the country. 
Moreover, when we speak of “gangs,” we must recognize that the most 
powerful gangs in the country are subsidiaries of the U.S. itself: the 
United Nations Integrated Office (BINUH) and the Core Group, the two 
colonial entities who have effectively ruled the country since the 
U.S./France/Canada-backed coup d’etat of 2004. Haiti has no sovereignty 
and has long been under foreign occupation. The current de facto “Prime 
Minister” was installed by the Core Group and whatever calls for 
military intervention are being made by those already occupying Haiti.

We hold in contempt the neocolonial governments that are taking part in 
this mission to further oppress Haitian people and deny them 
sovereignty. We denounce the governments of Kenya and the CARICOM 
nations, such as Bahamas, Jamaica, and Antigua and Barbuda, which have 
failed Haiti and have violated the notion of the Caribbean as a Zone of 
Peace.

Furthermore, we demand that:

 1.

    The U.S. and the UN must end their interference in Haiti and the
    Core Group must be disbanded.

 2.

    The U.S. must stop its criminal gangster actions against Haiti and
    stop propping up the illegitimate government they installed.

 3.

    Kenya must end its support for a racist and imperialist intervention
    in Haiti

 4.

    The governments of the U.S. and the Dominican Republic stop dumping
    arms and ammunition into the country and for the de facto Prime
    Minister to stop arming paramilitaries in the country.

 5.

    The United Nations pay restitution for the devastating 2010 cholera
    outbreak by rebuilding Haiti’s water, sanitation, health, and
    educational infrastructure.

 6.

    That fuel subsidies for Haiti are reinstated and the minimum wage
    increased.

 7.

    The CARICOM countries, alongside other regional nations, normalize
    pathways for work visas and citizenship for Haitian nationals.

We vow to stand on the side of the Haitian people against imperialism!

*Find the full list of Signatories here at the bottom of the online 
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