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Urgent Action Needed. Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered.<br><br>
Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered. The
duly<br>
elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country
at<br>
gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under
U.S and<br>
French guard.<br><br>
Yesterday, it is reported that, under U.S. marine escort the former<br>
FRAPH/FAHD thugs rolled into Port-au-Prince.<br><br>
Aristide's private residence has been trashed.<br><br>
The Prime Minister's residence has been trashed.<br><br>
The first order of business for these U.S. supported death squad leaders
and<br>
(Guy Philip, Jean Tatoune and Louis Jodel Chamblain) harden criminals was
to<br>
go to the National Penitentiary and forcibly break out all the 2000
prisoners<br>
there.<br><br>
Now these murderers have more murderers to help them terrorize
Haiti.<br><br>
Practically every building Aristide and the Haitian people built these
last<br>
10 years are being burned down and destroyed. Meanwhile the U.S. troops,
French<br>
troops, Canadian troops are protecting their own edifices in Haiti.<br>
No one is protecting the more than 850 million investment per year
hard<br>
working Haitians of the Diaspora have invested in the security,
development,<br>
shelter and nurturing of their relatives, children and family in
Haiti.<br><br>
Last night these opposition thugs ran through the slums of Belaire, La
Saline<br>
and Cite Soleil, well known for its support of the elected President, who
is<br>
now a hostage of the U.S., and indiscriminately fired, killing
countless<br>
numbers, according to an independent reporter in
Port-au-Prince.<br><br>
The Lavalas Party has been threatened and warned to remain quiet and
not<br>
denounce the Coup D'etat and abduction of Aristide, his wife, a brother
in law and<br>
two security people from Haiti. Not to tell the people President Aristide
did<br>
not resign freely but at U.S. gunpoint and forced on an airplane against
his<br>
will.<br><br>
The oppression and REPRESSION of democracy is as follows:
Dissenters,<br>
specifically Lavalas officials, are being told if Lavalas demonstrates in
Haiti and<br>
protests or defend their right to free speech and association, or for
the<br>
return of Aristide and against the opposition and their Jean
Tatoune/Guy<br>
Philippe/Louis Jodel Chamberlain triumvirate, then presumably the
international<br>
community, that is, U.S/ France/Canada along with the opposition they
broker for, will<br>
make sure that the Lavalas party is not allowed to participate in
any<br>
upcoming elections!<br><br>
Moreover, Prime Minister, Yvonne Neptune is technically a prisoner in
his<br>
office. US/Euro soldiers surround the Prime Minister's building. He
cannot leave<br>
his office and his home has been ransacked.<br><br>
From these reports, it appears any good works towards justice in Haiti
that<br>
had flickered has been destroyed in one fell, U.S.-Coup D'etat swoop
yesterday.<br>
Supposedly a Triumvirate has been created, made up of 1). One member of
the<br>
International Community, 2) One member of the so-called opposition and 3)
One<br>
member of Lavalas. It is reported, this Triumvirate will, in turn, pick a
9- or<br>
so, member council to work towards elections and governance. The
Supreme<br>
Court Justice has been appointed President of Haiti and it is rumored the
former<br>
Haitian army head, Herald Abraham is back in office calling all former
army<br>
soldiers back to their post!<br><br>
According to some on-the-ground observers, Former Haitian military are
right<br>
now walking side by side with U.S. Marines and French and Canadian troops
in<br>
Haiti.<br><br>
So many laws have been broken; I am not sure where to begin.<br><br>
l. It is against the U.N. Charter, the OAS, The CARICOM charter to
violently<br>
overthrow a constitutionally elected President;<br><br>
2. It is against all these above-mentioned charters and international law
and<br>
U.S. federal law to kidnap and take hostage, not only a President of
a<br>
sovereign country but his U.S. citizen wife and the brother and two
security guards.<br>
If this operation goes up Bush, if he had anything to do with this
covert<br>
operation and abduction, we are talking about High Crimes and
Misdemeanors, not<br>
to mention that impeachment resolution should begin to be drafted right
now.<br><br>
3. The 2004 US/French invasion of Haiti. It is against
international law to<br>
enter a sovereign country without an invitation. All the foreign
troops,<br>
French, U.S. Canadian, etc. who invaded Haiti on February 29, 2004,
to conduct and<br>
maintains this crime-against-humanity-debacle are in violation of<br>
international law and treaties and Haitian sovereignty.<br><br>
4. Secretary Colin Powell, Roger Noreiga, U.S. Ambassador Foley and all
those<br>
directly or indirectly supporting the reign in Haiti of convicted
criminals,<br>
like Jean Tatoune, Guy Philippe, and Jodel Louis Chamblain and all their
other<br>
terrorist, and an unelected, platformless opposition, may be charged
as<br>
accomplices in the killings and slaughter of the Haitian people being
murdered<br>
right now in Haiti by these ex-soldiers and death squad leaders and
possibly now,<br>
their new prisoner recruits from the National Penitentiary.<br><br>
5. The cover-up and/or current dismissal by the major news media and
press of<br>
President Aristide's abduction and forced resignation is violates
all<br>
journalistic ethics and code. It appear as a part and parcel of the
State<br>
Department's psychological warfare to repress free speech against this
dastardly deed not<br>
only in the U.S. but also in Haiti. For instance the fact that Guy
Philippe<br>
an accused DEA drug trafficker and accused Coup Detat leader under both
Preval<br>
and the Aristide administration, is today traveling with his own embedded
AP<br>
reporter is akin to Bin Ladin traveling around with his own embedded
AP<br>
reporter. It's evidenced certain mainstream media's outrageous and a
depraved<br>
indifference to the sufferings of the Black people of Haiti. It is almost
as racists<br>
and deplorable as that guest yesterday on George Stephanopoulos' ABC news
show<br>
who said the United States has a stake in Haiti "because we have to
control<br>
the flow of refugees and disease" into the U.S.<br><br>
The media's treatment of the vast majority of Haiti's People plight
and<br>
struggle to live free and establish democracy is unimaginably callous
and<br>
non-factual, mainly playing into deep racists fears and stereotypes.
Another instance<br>
of reporting verbatim, without verification, state department positions
is what<br>
we read today, March 1, 2004, the New York Times about Haiti. The New
York<br>
Times reports that, for instance, South Africa refused Aristide asylum.
Yet,<br>
President Aristide talked this morning via telephone to Maxine Waters,
Randall<br>
Robinson and Charles Rangel. He said he want the Haitian people and the
world to<br>
know that he did not freely resigned. It was a Coup D'etat. U.S. Marines
who<br>
came to his house with Morino, a U.S. representative to the U.S.
Ambassador<br>
Foley and told him they were withdrawing his U.S. security details, that
he had<br>
to leave or face Guy Phillip who was being escorted into Port-au-Prince
by<br>
U.S. soldiers. Congresspersons, Waters, and Rangel and Randall Robinson,
all<br>
three, confirmed that the President and Mrs. Aristide said they were
forced on an<br>
airplane, at gunpoint, with U.S. and French soldiers guarding, that
eventually<br>
landed in the French/US defacto protectorate known as the Central
Republic of<br>
Africa. President Aristide said he was not allowed to call anyone, much
less<br>
call South Africa, or any nation and ask for asylum. He reiterated he did
not<br>
resign and that he was being held hostage surrounded by French and
U.S.<br>
soldiers in a place called the Chateau De Renaissance, in the Central
Republic of<br>
Africa.<br><br>
Marguerite Laurent, Esq.<br>
Chair, Haitian Lawyers Leadership<br><br>
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