ACTION ALERT FROM HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
Protest brutal attack on Haitian street vendors by UN soldiers!
Bullet holes are visible in this photo from UN assault on Haitian street vendors
On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was [...]
Guy Philippe was one of two primary leaders of a paramilitary group that the US housed, trained and armed in the Dominican Republic to make cross-border attacks into Haiti beginning in 2002 in order to kill their countrymen aligned with the administration of the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last year, he started shooting his [...]
This is an excellent and comprehensive summary of the “weak state” prescription that the international community has been administering to Haiti for years. Now, Haiti is more sick than ever. Darren Ell is right — the only way this will stop is for the citizens of US, France, and Canada to learn [...]
On February 29, 2004, Bush’s Deputy Ambassador in Haiti, Luis Moreno, and US Special Forces kidnapped the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and put him on a plane to the Central African Republic. Bush’s initial objective in Haiti had been achieved — the guy who bucked the neoliberal system was out of the way. [...]
Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit
HIP- The Lavalas movement of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti simply will not quit. Despite pronouncements by the United Nations that the movement was dead nearly six months ago, over ten thousand supporters demonstrated in Port au Prince this last February 29, 2008. The date was auspicious in [...]
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4905
Excerpt from article:
“Another violent military operation occurred in July 2005, when an estimated 22,000 bullet holes were found after an operation by MINUSTAH in Cite Soleil. Reports by HIP cited accounts by residents that the wounded and dead were found inside their own homes. These accounts charge that soldiers shot at people indiscriminately, which had [...]
John Maxwell, who writes a column for the Jamaica Observer called “Common Sense,” has a way of hitting nails directly on the head. He reminds us of things we should never forget. He leads us down paths we might never choose. He reveals connections we thought didn’t exist. Most of all, for [...]
Big thanks to Stewart Neatby, writing in the Dominion Paper, for covering the REAL news in Haiti — the Haitian resistance is still alive and UN peacekeepers continue to use brutal and illegal tactics to keep a lid on it. Neatby, in his article below, states that as many as 40 Haitians were arrested [...]
Say What??
“This is a short visit, a doctor’s visit,” Preval said of Harper’s one-day tour. “You can be sure your patient is no sicker, but remains fragile. Our country is recuperating, but is still weak, very weak.”
So Harper is going to doctor Cite Soleil? Since his country was an integral part of [...]
Everything about Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s trip to Latin America/Caribbean feels creepy. It’s way too reminiscent of Marlon Brando, playing the much hated diplomat in the film, “The Ugly American,” oozing all over the southern half of the Western Hemisphere. Looking to strike a wicked free trade deal, discussing plans for sinking [...]
