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<b><u><span style="font-size:20pt">Haiti: Stop the Repression.</span></u></b><b><u><span
style="font-size:20pt"> No
impunity. NO NEW ARMY</span></u></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri">The people of
Haiti need our solidarity in the face of the
increasing violence of the fraudulently imposed government
of Jovenel Moise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Last
Thursday
July 14, 2017, in Petionville, Haiti, near Port-au-Prince, a
young book vendor
was shot to death by a police officer in front of horrified
witnesses. The
police used tear gas and batons against a crowd outraged by
the murder and the
quick, forcible removal of the body in a perceived attempt
at a cover up. This
is the latest of recent extra-judicial killings by the
Haitian police and
paramilitary forces.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The
brutal
killing occurred as the occupation government of Jovenel
Moise, installed in
the fraudulent elections of November 2016, is pushing to
restore the brutal and
corrupt Haitian military, which was disbanded by
then-President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide in 1995. Moise has stated that he wants the Army
back within two
years. Haitians remember the US-supported bloody rampage by
former members of
this army that claimed thousands of lives during the period
of the 2004 coup
d'etat against the elected government. The US/UN forces and
occupation
governments subsequently integrated many of these killers
into the Haitian
police and government paramilitary units.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">This
announcement takes place at a volatile moment in Haitian
society. The Haitian
police and other government paramilitary forces, accompanied
by UN occupation
forces, have carried out criminal attacks against protesting
teachers,
students, factory workers, market women, street vendors and
others who are
victims of government extortion, theft of land, money and
merchandise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span>·<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">On July
10 - 12, 2017, during three days of peaceful protest for
an increase in the minimum wage, Haitian police attacked the
workers from the
industrial park in Port-au-Prince with tear gas, batons and
cannons shooting a
liquid skin irritant. One of the beaten workers is a woman
who had recently
returned to work from giving birth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span>·<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">On June
12, the government-appointed rector of the Haitian State
University used his car to hit and run over a protesting
university student.
The government prosecutor has ignored the complaint filed by
the students
against the rector and is instead pursuing the victim's
colleagues in a blatant
attempt to harass and intimidate them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span>·<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">In May
2017, units of the Haitian police and paramilitary forces
again attacked the people of Arcahaie protesting the
government's plan to
remove the main revenue-generating district from the
community, located about
30 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span>·<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">In May
2017, a food vendor in Petionville was killed after he
was deliberately hit and run over by a car of the municipal
paramilitary forces
according to outraged witnesses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span>·<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">On March
20th, 2017, police officers were videotaped shooting at
the car carrying President Aristide and Fanmi Lavalas
presidential candidate
Dr. Maryse Narcisse as they returned from court. The police
officers were
reportedly observed returning to the national palace; there
was no condemnation
of this blatant assassination attempt by the government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Adding
a newly
organized Haitian Army to this mix is a sign that the
Haitian government is
planning on more repression. The</span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri"> Haitian
military’s purpose was to protect Haitian
dictatorships and to attack any challenges by the Haitian
people</span><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">.<span>
</span>Whether under the
Duvalier dictatorships from 1957-1986 or when the military
overthrew the
democratically elected Aristide government in 1991, leading
to the killing of
over 5000 people, the military has been a central
anti-democratic institution
in Haitian society. When then-President Aristide disbanded
the
narco-trafficking Haitian military in 1995, the Army was
eating up 40% of the
national budget in a country with fewer than two doctors per
10,000 people. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Now
this
infamous military is being restored just as the United
Nations is said to begin
a staged withdrawal of its troops. This is similar to what
happened following
the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934, a period in
which 20,000 Haitians
were killed. As the U.S. forces withdrew, they left in place
a neo-colonial
army with Haitian faces to do their bidding and continue the
repression of
popular discontent. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Haitians
are
saying NO to the restoration of an additional repressive
military force.<span> </span>They are demanding an end to
police
terror and an end to impunity.<span> </span>We
join their call.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">E-mail
and phone-in campaign to:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">-
Say No to the
Restoration of the brutal Haitian military</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">-
Hold the US
and UN occupation accountable for the terror campaign by the
Haitian police and
security forces they train and supervise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">-
Say No to impunity
for police terror in Haiti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Contact:</span></b><span
style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-TextBody"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon";color:black">-<span>
</span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon"">US
State
Department: </span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%">H</span><a
href="mailto:haitispecialcoordinator@state.gov"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="gmail-InternetLink"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon""
lang="UZ-CYR">aitiSpecialCoordinator@state.</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon"">gov
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-TextBody"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon";color:black">-
</span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;color:black"><span> </span></span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon"">Your
Member
of Congress: </span><span><span class="gmail-InternetLink"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon";color:rgb(0,51,204)"
lang="UZ-CYR">202-224 3121</span></span></span><span
class="gmail-InternetLink"><span lang="UZ-CYR"></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-TextBody"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Symbol;serif;EmojiFont";color:black">-</span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;color:black"> </span><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon";color:black">UN
Mission
in Haiti: </span><a href="mailto:minustah-info@un.org"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="gmail-InternetLink"><span
style="font-size:16pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial;sans-serif;serif;EmojiFon";color:rgb(0,51,204)"
lang="UZ-CYR">minustah-info@un.org</span></span></a></p>
<p class="gmail-TextBody">Sent by Haiti Action Committee</p>
<p class="gmail-TextBody"><a
href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net" moz-do-not-send="true">www.haitisolidarity.net</a></p>
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