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<div class="moz-forward-container"><i>Haiti Action Committee is
honored to share "An Open Letter to William Ruto," first
published in <a
href="https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/30/an-open-letter-to-william-ruto/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">PM News Nigeria</a>.
Written to William Ruto, president of Kenya, from distinguished
Kenyan author, playwright and social activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
the letter criticizes Ruto's recent visit to the White House and
Kenya's collaboration with the US-headed military invasion and
continued foreign occupation of Haiti. </i>
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href="https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/30/an-open-letter-to-william-ruto/"
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William Ruto</a></font></p>
<p
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William Ruto,</p>
<p
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The
images of your recent State visit to the USA were very
disturbing to me and to every patriotic Kenyan.</p>
<img src="cid:part1.34OqoYQv.lJrlQe7h@freedomarchives.org"
alt="Ngugi-Wa-Thiongo.jpg" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T"
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<p
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>Pictured
above is Ngugi wa Thiong'o, revered Kenyan author and social
activist</i></p>
<p
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I
saw you seated on a chair, grinning, while Biden stood behind
you, his face beaming with satisfaction. Why not? He had just
announced that you had signed off our beloved Kenya to make it
a non-member ally of NATO. In other words you had agreed to
become Nato’s errand boy in America’s struggle with Russia and
China for access to resources of the continent.</p>
<p
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do you know that NATO murdered Muammar Gaddafi so that Libyan
oil-fields, which Kaddafi had nationalized, would revert to
the West? Kaddafi was once the chairman of the African Union
of which Kenya was a founding member.</p>
<p
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">But
this other picture was no less disturbing. While you were
inside the White House, Haitians were in the streets
demonstrating, calling you a slave. Do you know the history of
Haiti? Please read The Black Jacobins the book written by a
once Jomo Kenyatta Pan African ally, C L R James.</p>
<p
style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Haiti,
now a Black people’s State, used to be a slave colony of
France. But led by Toussaint Louverture, Haiti, the richest
colony of its time, fought French slavery and in 1804 it
seized its independence. In USA slavery was then in full
bloom. America did not want its African slaves to emulate
Haiti, and it has never forgiven Haiti for that, and thus
begun the story of America’s destabilization of Haiti.</p>
<p
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do you see the irony of your actions? The USA, was originally
a settler colony taking over the land that belonged to Native
Americans. In 1776 The White settlers declared their
independence from their English King. But the colonized Native
Americans remained colonized. Kenya was equally a British
settler colony. The white settlers wanted to have a similar
kind of Independence. But the Mau Mau led by Dedan Kĩmathi
stopped them. </p>
<p
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later, Algeria, Rhodesia and South Africa would follow the
example of Kenya. Thus the country you now lead, was the first
to stop the historical trend of white settlers claiming
themselves independent as in America, Canada, New Zealand and
Australia.</p>
<p
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you have chosen to betray that history of Pride.</p>
<p
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you have chosen to become an agent of the West?</p>
<p
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you have chosen to sell your country cheap.</p>
<p
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oh, Why?</p>
<p
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Georgia</p>
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28, 2024</p>
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<div><span>33 years of
solidarity with the
anti-colonial grassroots
struggle for dignity,
democracy and
self-determination of
the Haitian people!<br>
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