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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. </span></p>
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INTERDEPARTMENTAL COALITION OF HAITI </span></p>
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RELEASE</span></p>
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</span></span><span
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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. </span></p>
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condemn the criminal act that the gangs committed
against a two-month-old baby. They snatched him from
the arms of his mother, </span><a
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Telemaque</span></a><span
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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.</span></p>
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</span></span><span
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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. </span></p>
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</span></span><span
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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.</span></p>
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</span></span><span
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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.</span></p>
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</span></span><span
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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.</span></p>
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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. </span></p>
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BÉLAIR
Catherine
FLON</span></p>
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ST.MARC
Marie Jeanne
LAMARTINIÈRE </span></p>
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<div><span>33 years of solidarity with
the grassroots struggle for
dignity, democracy and
self-determination of the Haitian
people! </span><a
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Forget the Achievements of Lavalas
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