[News] Haitian Women's Statement on International Women's Day

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Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement 
from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti. The statement, 
released to commemorate International Women’s Day, is a clarion call for 
solidarity, as women throughout Haiti support each other and resist the 
horrific attacks by the Viv Ansamn paramilitaries. The statement lays 
the blame for  these assaults squarely at the feet of the PHTK, the 
right-wing party that has led Haiti into the crisis it now faces. We 
urge you to read this statement and circulate it widely.


WOMEN'S INTERDEPARTMENTAL COALITION OF HAITI

PRESS RELEASE


We, the Women's Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti, consisting of 
several organizations in various regions of the country, are struggling 
for the respect of the rights of women who are suffering all forms of 
violence in Haiti. We ask for the collaboration of all women to condemn 
all the criminal acts that are inflicted daily on the population-- 
especially, women and girls who are victims of rape. When we are 
kidnapped, they rape us and they kill us.


We condemn the criminal act that the gangs committed against a 
two-month-old baby. They snatched him from the arms of his mother, 
Eliana Telemaque 
<https://haitisolidarity.net/terrorizing-haiti-eliana-telemaque/>, and 
threw him alive in a bonfire in front of his mother. His mother died a 
few days later, and we demand that the justice system do their duty.


As we see the rapid rise of insecurity, it is we who are always the 
victims as they burn down our homes and destroy our businesses. We ask 
that all countries that are friends of Haiti, human rights 
organizations, and women's rights organizations, join us to help Haiti 
find a way out of this conspiracy hatched by the PHTK Neo-Duvalierist 
regime and its foreign accomplices to eliminate us and steal our wealth. 
We demand the arrest of all the people presently under sanctions by the 
United Nations because of their participation in providing the weapons 
that brought Haiti into this present-day situation.


Our children cannot go to school, they are burning down our homes, 
schools, hospitals, pharmacies and laboratories. We condemn how in 2004, 
the US, France, Canada and other countries were quick to send forces to 
Haiti when there was none of this chaos. We see where they have brought 
Haiti today after 21 years of occupation, when they overthrew a popular 
and democratic government. We need people-to-people international 
solidarity.


>From 1994 through 2004, the Lavalas governments built more public 
schools, public parks and health care centers than any of the previous 
governments that we can count. We were living well and we had work. It 
is for this reason that the PHTK gave birth to Viv Ansanm to destroy all 
the good works that President Aristide had realized for our benefit.

We are asking for international solidarity to prosecute the criminals, 
who are financing the gangs in Haiti. We must expose these thieves 
wherever we find them in Haiti and abroad. We also condemn the US and 
the Dominican Republic for supplying all the weapons and ammunition that 
are terrorizing the Haitian people.

Today, we need the support of all people and countries who are friends 
of Haiti to help us remove ourselves from the claws of these PHTK 
criminal gangs.


Sanité BÉLAIR                                           Catherine FLON


Henriette ST.MARC                                   Marie Jeanne 
LAMARTINIÈRE



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