Haitian recipients of USAID/IRI/NED/EU

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Haitian recipients of USAID/IRI/NED/EU to destabilize, starve democracy and foment violence and Coup D'etat, mostly under the guise of "democracy or justice and peace enhancement programs

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The subcontracted Haitians below have sold the nation to foreigners and their NGOs in exchange for visas, jobs and a few "trickle down" dollars:

Stanley Lucas* (For more on Stanley Lucas see Bush's man for Cuba author of the Haitian Disaster )

M. Rosny Desroches

M. Rosny Desroches, The Initiative de la Societe Civile (ISC)

Andy Apaid, Jr., The Fondation Nouvelle Haiti (FNH)

Andy Apaid, Jr., Group 184

M. Rosny Desroches, Fondation Haitienne de l'Enseignement Prive (FONHEP)

Democratic Convergence Coalition

Gerard Gourgue, President of Democratic Convergence and legal consultant to
Altech (a Belgium firm to build a purified water system known as Hydopur
in Haiti's Artibonite Valley.


* Judith Roy, Democratic Convergence (member)
* Arcelin Paul, Democrataic Convergence (member)
* Ariel Henry, Democratic Convergence (member)
* Gerard Gourgue, Democratic Convergence (member)

Himmler Rebu, army officer involved in several coup attempts

Leopold Berlanger, Radio Vision2000

Suzy Castor, Organisation du Peuple en Lutte (political party)& CRESFED

Jessie Benoit, Konakom (political party) and MOUFHED

Jean-Claude Bajeux - CEDH

Pierre Esperance, National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR)

Michele Pierre-Louis, Fondation Connaissance et Libertè (fokal)

Herard Abraham, Minister Affair Etrange

Herbert Widmaier - Association National Media Ayisyen - (ANMR), Director/Radyo
Metropole

Ann Marie Issa - Vis Prezidan, Association National Media Ayisyen -(ANMR), Signal FM, (also a current member of the Coup D'etat's "Wise Council.")

- Rico Duplan, Director, Federasyon Baro Ayisyen (AMANA)
(Gervais Charles, member of Group 184 replaced Rico Duplan as head of AMANA.
AMANA funded ANDM)

- Jean Peres Paul, Assosiasyon Nasyonal Des Majistra (ANDM) | ANAMAH, the national judges' association, was created by USAID programs and heavily funded by the IFES program as part of the effort to set up a civil society opposition to Haiti's constitutional government.

- Federation des Etudiants Universitaires d'Haiti, similarly created by IFES through USAID funding to subvert Haiti's democratically elected government.

- Other, subcontracted Haitians include:PAPDA, CARLI, CONAP and ENFOFANM.

(See, CIDA’s Key Role in Haiti’s 2004 Coup d’État: Funding Regime Change, Dictatorship and Human Rights Atrocities, one Haitian "NGO" at a Time)
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The Massacres & Abitrary imprisonments (See, Bush bloodbath brought to Haiti: List of Victims and Massacres since the Bi-centennial Coup D'etat): Under the leadership of de facto Haitian authorities (from 2004 to 2006), such as:

Bernard Gousse, Former Minister of Justice;

Henri Dorlèan, his successor as defacto Justice Minister

Herard Abraham, defacto Minister of Foreign Affairs (former army general and former interior minister under Latortue)

Lèon Charles, Former de facto Chief of Police

Mario Andresol, current defacto Chief of Police

David Basile, defacto Secretary of State for Public Security

Renand Etienne, Direction Departementale De L'Ouest ("DDO") with US/UN- backed men-in-black-former-Haitian-military dressed-up as "police" referred as CIMO or SWAT units and their civilian attaches in regular clothes, allegedly hired by Renand Etienne's DDO as

A.S. DDO operatives - (such as
"Jaki" who is accused of taking part in the Solino (August 5-10, 2005 Solino machete massacres of even a pregnant woman;
and other similar acting A.S.-DDO operatives such as the ones known to their Bel Air Haitian victims as:

Jean Yves “Nasson” Gerald;
Narage “Eleus” Laguerre;
St. Gor “Père Reklè” Clermond; and,
“Gwo Fanfan” who were, according to the people in Bel Air, the shooters who fired into the crowd killing and wounding peaceful unarmed demonstrators February 28, 2005 in plain sight of Haitian police, international media and UN troops.

Chief of police at Martissant - Summer Camp For Peace Soccer Massacre, on Aug. 20 and 21, 2005: According to witnesses who live in the Grand Ravine area, more than 50 people where slaughtered during a soccer game on Sat. August 20 and the next day, Sunday, August 21, 2005 by civilian attaches to the Haitian police, particularly to the chief of police of Martissant. Victims and witnesses testified that these attaches wore red shirts and head bands and were equipped with machetes and hatchets distributed by the police at the Martissant police station. The people of Grand Ravine and those attending the soccer match recognized and identified these executioners the same men who were at least a month previously thrown out of the area as trouble makers and among whom were some of the prison escapees let out during the coup d'etat. (AUMODH report) The people in the Martissant area identify some of these assassins by name as follows:

Georges Jean Yves,
Gérard, aka, Gwo l'Ombril (Big Belly Button),
Élifet aka Tête Calé (Shaved Head),
Ti Clody,
Rudy,
Joël,
Eddy,
Apoupann aka Colonel,
Ronald Toussaint,
Kiki ,
Rocky Rambo, and
Cliska. - (See: List of Coup d'etat attaches - Lame Timanchet)

Fort National Massacre on October 26, 2004 - A certain Desiral, agent #4 in the police force was the head of the men-in-black commando unit that massacred 18 people at Fort National. After the massacre, said Desiral, was promoted within the police "agent" ranks. (Bush bloodbath brought to Haiti: List of Victims and Massacres and List of protected Coup d'etat attaches - Lame Timanchet )

The US-installed and maintained de facto Latortue regime has presided over systematic State-sponsored summary executions, indefinite detentions, mutilations, rapes and brutal repression in Haiti. The witch hunt against Lavalas and the poor demanding return to Constitutional rule from Feb. 29, 2004 to present led by the above-identified de facto Haitian authorities are supported, encouraged and guided by the coordinated and focused efforts of the US/Canada and France through military, technical, diplomatic and humanitarian pressure along with unremitting UN and Haiti "police" incursions into the poor sections of Haiti. (Note, for example, the diplomatic and public dispatches of the chief U.S. architects of the bi-centennial Coup D'etat -

Roger Noreiga,
James Foley and
Haiti Democracy Project's Timothy Carney (the interim US ambassador replacing James Foley and former US ambassador to Haiti (1998 to 1999)

- as they push for more aggressive UN action and do not discourage the summary execution of people in the black poor neighborhoods demanding return of the Constitutional government. Noreiga's comments to Miami Herald and Foley's comments, (trial by innuendo against Haiti's poor and strongest political party) on July 4, 2005 (reported by AHP) singling out Lavalas as "bandits," "gangsters" and clearly signaling to UN & MINUSTHA permission to continue their brutal incursions and be more aggressive in silencing these US policymakers' political oppositions in Haiti.) - Look up generally our Human Rights Reports, Ezili Danto Witness Project, Press Work, Ezili Danto Listserve and Haitian Perspectives.

For brief background information, see, International Politics and Haiti in 2004 - On events of February 2004; why the US and France fueled the fire of coup d'etat in Haiti, ordered Aristide's Steel Security detail to leave immediately, conducted Haiti's 33rd Coup, flew Aristide to the Central African Republic where a France-allied strongmen had removed said countries elected president the year before, then after Jamaica gave Aristide temporary asylum, Condoleezza Rice threatened Jamaica if Aristide stayed in the Western Hemisphere. "Ms. Rice told the Jamaican Government that if Aristide was not expelled immediately, and anything happened to American forces in Haiti, that the consequences of that would be exacted against a president or against Jamaica by the United States with full force." See, Democracy Now: Condoleezza Rice Threatens Jamaica Over Aristide. The Bush Administration replaced the ousted constitutional Haitian government with a Florida contingent, Duvalierists, neo-conservative anti-poor Haitian economic elites, CIA-FRAPH assassins and bloody ex-military officers.

Canada's Role in the Coup D'etat in Haiti
France's Role in the Coup D'etat in Haiti
List of Coup d'etat attaches - Lame Timanchet
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Notes: According to Ronald St. Jean interview on August 11, 2005 with
a correspondent in Haiti for the Ezili Danto Witness Program, the Coup D'etat
organizations where paid more than 100million dollars to destroy the
Constitutional government. IRI and IFES financed and empowered Coup
D'etat groups, organizing monthly workshops for these organizations in
the Dominican Republic with the students and university professors like
Hubert DeRonceray, with ANMH radio stations, radio journalists and
right wing press like Leopold Berlanger (RadioVision2000), Ann Marie
Issa (Cignal FM), Widmaier (Radio Metropole); and human rights
organizations such as NCHR and Jean Claude Bajeux's organization.
Herard Abraham met with Ravix in the Dominican Republic with these
monies to buy arms and financed troops for the Coup D'etat.
In an updated interview with Ezili Danto on August 18, 2005 on the
Ronald St. Jean interview, our Ezili Danto (ED)collaborator indicated that Apaid's
organization, FNH, received 900million in Euros from the European
Union.

According to the ED source, Rosemond St. Jean and Apaid agrued
because Rosemond St. Jean accused Apaid of taking the money and that
his organization did not get a good apportionment.

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There are fourteen organisations listed by the EC as among those receiving EC funding
via M. Desroches and the FNH. These 14 organisations are:

FNH - Fondation Nouvelle Haiti;
CCIH - Chambre de commerce et d'industrie;
CNEH - Confederation Nationale des educateurs haitiens;
OGITH - Organisation generale independante des travailleurs haitiens;
CRESFED - Centre de Recherche et de Formation Economique et Sociale;
MOUFHED - Mouvement des femmes haitiennes pour l'education et le
developpement;
CEDH - Centre oecumenique des droits humains;
Commission Justice et Paix;
Femmes en democratie;
KOP (Coordination des organisations populaires);
CEPRODHD - Centre pour la promotion des droits humains et de la
democratie en Haiti;
FPDH - Fondation pour la Promotion des droits de l'homme;
CREDH - Centre de recherche pour le developpement humain;
CED - Collectif pour l'education et le developpement.
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*With USAID monies - a $2 million grant - in 1998, Stanley Lucas, working for the IRI "hosted some of Aristide's most virulent opponents in political training sessions. What he did was he merged all of these disparate groups into one big party called the Democratic Convergence. Now, the Democratic Convergence is not a traditional political party, it's more like the political wing of a coup, because the strategy that it took was to forego the democratic process entirely. Boycott elections and initiate what seemed like an endless sequence of provocative protests. Between 2000 and 2002, the Democratic Convergence rejected over 20 internationally sanctioned power sharing agreements which heightened the tension and provoked more violence. " (see, Stanley Lucas and IRI).


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1. The 2004 Removal of Jean-Betrand Aristide | Center For Cooperative Research

2. Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy: USAID Policies in Haiti
Grassroots International | 6 March 1997 |
Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy: USAID Policies in Haiti

3 . Desroches and Apaid get Euro Funding for anti-government civil society front (Group of 184 funded by European Commission)

4 . Stanley Lucas and the International Republican Institute (IRI)
Talk:Stanley Lucas - SourceWatch

5 . ) USAID- Haiti: Program Data Sheet
USAID: Haiti

6 . http://www.haitipolicy.org/HDPRpt4.htm#TOC2_1 - Names

7 . Help Save Yvon Neptune's Life - Yvon Neptunes' Letter From Jail , February 24, 2005 Editorial: March 1, a troubling anniversary…

8. World History Archives': The working-class history of the Republic of Haiti

9 . Propaganda War Intensifies Against Haiti as Oppositon Grabs for Power by Kevin Pina, Black Commentator, Oct. 30, 2003.

10 . "...even the departing U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Brian Curran, lashed out against some U.S. political operatives, calling them the "Chimeres of Washington" (a Haitian term for political criminals). The most recent of these Chimeres have been associated with the Haiti Democracy Project (HDP), headed by former State Department official James Morrell and funded by the right-wing Haitian Boulos family.

In December 2002, the HDP literally created from whole cloth a new public relations face for the official opposition, the "Coalition of 184 Civic Institutions," a laundry list of Haitian NGOs funded by USAID and/or the IRI, as well as by the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce and other groups.

During the [1991-1994] coup and since, USAID-sponsored "democracy enhancement" has done its job: whole segments of the popular movement were chilled or co-opted. Popular leaders were at first killed off or encouraged to emigrate; later, many of the rest were bought off. What was once among the most mobilized populations in the hemisphere has become severely demobilized." Still Up Against the Death Plan in Haiti: The Aristide government is straitjacketed by U.S. low-intensity warfare and neoliberal economic demands by Tom Reeves, Dollars and Sense, Sept/Oct. 2003


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Haiti: Facts and Foreign Occupation
Stanley Lucas

There has always been much debate surrounding the idea of "foreign occupation" in Haiti. Haitians, of course, are opposed to this. And some Haitian leaders capitalize on this opposition by distorting the facts and not taking the responsibility for requesting this support – or, more importantly, contributing the environment where such a need becomes imperative. The fact is that from 1990 to present, the United Nations has deployed at the request of the Haitian government 15 missions to Haiti:

Technical assistance requested by president Ertha Pascale Trouillot in 1989 to support the 1990 elections

Request for an economic embargo against Haiti by Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1991
Aristide request for MICIVIH February 1993 – May 1998
U.S. Military intervention requested by Aristide in 1994
UNMIH September 1993 – June 1996 requested by Aristide
UNSMIH July 1996 – July 1997
UNTMIH August 1997 – November 1997
MIPONUH December 1997 – March 2000
MICAH March 2000 – Feb. 2001
Aristide request to the Clinton Administration for military intervention in 2000
Aristide request to the Bush Administration for military intervention January 2004
Aristide request to the United Nations in January 2004: MINUSTAH April 2004 – Présent
Aristide request to OAS 2000 – 2007
Aristide request to CARICOM 2001 – 2004

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US humanitarianism? Never Heard of It| To solve the problem of Haiti, a revolution of dislodge neocolonialism



Recommended HLLN Link:
Ezili Dantò Biography
Marguerite Laurent.com | Ezilidanto

Dessalines' Three Ideals
Marguerite Laurent.com | Dessalines


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Humanitarianism? Never Heard of It, by Natalie O'Neill, Miami New Times

Miami - Riptide 2.0 - Humanitarianism? Never Heard of It.

HLLN's Counter-narrative on article entitled "Haiti and the slave route"

Haiti and the slave route By Gabriel Molina, Granma, Havana, Cuba,
January 14,
2009 | granma.cu - Haiti and the slave route

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Humanitarianism? Never Heard of It.
By Natalie O'Neill in News
Wednesday, Jan. 14 2009


Miami - Riptide 2.0 - Humanitarianism? Never Heard of It.


President Bush will finally leave the White House next week, which means
the
United States now stands a chance at reversing our reputation as
douchebags of
the universe. Before departing office, however, Dubya decided he would
give the
good people of South Florida a little farewell gift: another bad
decision.

Despite the two back-to-back hurricanes that smacked Haiti this past
summer, he
denied the unfortunate islanders temporary protected status last week.
"It's
brainless and racist," says Steven Forester of the advocacy group
Haitian Women
of Miami. "It's crazy to send these people home at a time when the place
is
devastated."

The U.S. has never granted Haitians TPS, which permits short-term
residency to
nationals from countries that are enduring political or environmental
turbulence. While President Bush has continued to rebuff Haitians, the
administration renewed TPS in 2002 for Nicaraguan and Honduran
immigrants owing
to Hurricane Mitch in 1998. At this point, Haiti is in much worse shape
than
Central Americans were at the time. Mudslides still cover entire towns
on the
island. Houses are flooded. People are starving. We're talking about
more than
three times the damage left by Hurricane Katrina.

North Miami immigration lawyer Candace Jean is representing several
Haitian
families with deportation orders, some of whom might not survive if sent
back.
She told the story of one 24-year-old mother who was raped when she got
to
Florida in 2005 and now has a U.S.-born child from the assault. Her
deportation
order could land her in Haiti in just a few weeks. Says Jean: "What is
she
gonna do? Take her son back to Haiti and feed him mud?"


*
See:
HLLN Sample Letter - Grant TPS to Haitians

Marguerite Laurent.com |Haiti News, Grant TPS to Haiti, immigration


Haitian-Americans ask the next US president to....end UN occupation,
grant TPS,
stop trading for Haiti with USAID

Marguerite Laurent.com | Campaign Six | Mission

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HLLN's Counter-narrative on article entitled "Haiti and the slave route"

The counter-narrative to be aware of as you read the article copied
below
entitled "Haiti and the slave route" By Gabriel Molina, Granma, Havana,
Cuba,
January 14, 2009 |
granma.cu - Haiti and the slave route, is
as follows:

Haiti's founding father was Jean Jacques Dessalines, NOT Toussaint
Louverture.
The Africans in Haiti were enslaved, not slaves.

And, on August 14, 1791 the ENSLAVED African nations from all over West
and
Central Africa and the Black Maroons who had escaped enslavement,
gathered
together at Bwa Kayiman Haiti, to form one union against the existing
white
settler's slave and colonial order. That Haitian union successfully
fought, in
combat, against the French, Spanish, British and an 1803 US embargo and
eradicated their rule in Haiti.

That union was of the enslaved who never accepted themselves as slaves
and that
union and commitment in Haiti has never wavered.

To solve the problem of the "Black world" and Haiti, one need not study
colonialism as the article seems to proposes. But one must have a
revolution to
get rid of the neocolonialism and independence debt that would began in
Haiti
upon the assassination of Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques
Dessalines by
the mullato sons of France and continues today by the feudal Haitian
oligarchs
that still maintains this neocolonialism, containment-in-poverty and
endless
debt paradigm in Haiti. For a better understanding of the ideals of the
Haitian
Revolution and the significance of Haiti as pioneers in the human rights
struggle for universal freedom, go to:

Ezili Dantò Biography
Marguerite Laurent.com | Ezilidanto


The Haitian union - linyon fè la fòs - forged at Bwa Kayiman has never
wavered
Marguerite Laurent.com |Haiti News


Dessalines' Three Ideals
Marguerite Laurent.com | Dessalines


Blacks were the original peoples on the planet, including the Americas
Marguerite Laurent.com | Dessalines


Haiti's Ruling Oligarchy
Marguerite Laurent.com |Haiti News


Bourgeoisie Freedom
Marguerite Laurent.com |Haiti News


The Bwa Kayiman Call
Marguerite Laurent.com |Haiti News

Haiti's Riches
Marguerite Laurent.com | San Francisco BayView.com


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Haiti and the slave route
granma.cu - Haiti and the slave route


• A UNESCO agreement calls on culture ministers to promote the abolition
of
slavery every August 23 • France and the international community urged
to
honor the date in this 2009 full of significant anniversaries

Gabriel Molina

• THE 205th anniversary of the emancipation of Haiti calls for a
vindication
of the country that on January 1, 1804, initiated the dawn of liberation
in Our
America.

The liberator Toussaint L’Ouverture is the symbol of the abolition of
slavery
and also the rise and fall of the French Revolution, inspired by the
people of
Saint Domingue, which became Haiti after the slave rebellion, but which
was
betrayed by Napoleon Bonaparte in the principles that will have been in
place
220 years this July 14.

Karfa Diallo and Patrick Serrés, president and general secretary,
respectively, of the Divers Cités Association, created in France 10
years ago
with the aim of dispersing a collective amnesia on colonization and the
slave
route, have committed themselves to make Bordeaux acknowledge that its
wealth
was in the main derived from the trafficking of African slaves, despite
the
French Revolution.

The memory of the Haitian hero, son of a slave from Dahomey, now Benin,
who led
the first and only triumphant slave rebellion in contemporary history,
and the
second defeat of colonialism in Latin America, endures in his cell in
Fort de
Joux, in the Loraine hills of Franche Compté in eastern France.

Although a slave, L’Ouverture learned to read and write. A coachman by
trade,
he became such a good horse rider that he was known as the Centaur of
the
Savannah. In 1791, aged 48, he joined the rebel movement and was
selected to
enter into fruitless negotiations with landowners, who were able to
recover
their properties. Toussaint then made a pact with the Spanish who, in
alliance
with the British, controlled part of the island (the eastern coast), and
advanced to the rank of general. On August 29, 1793, faced with
indications of
a British invasion, the French Assembly in Paris proclaimed the
abolition of
slavery and declared that, "From now on, black slaves are free, as long
as they
rally to the cause."

L’Ouverture broke with Spain and moved over to the French side with
4,000 of
his men, defeating the Spanish in approximately two years. Overcoming
60,000
British invaders took a further three. According to journalists of the
period,
he found an ally in the United States of Alexander Hamilton. Thus, Haiti
was
able to stimulate agricultural production and began to trade with the
young
American republic. The working day was reduced to nine hours for the
first time
in history, and gave workers the right to a quarter of all income. But
in 1800,
Jefferson won the presidential elections and was inaugurated on March 4,
1801.
Being a slave owner himself, he turned against Toussaint and informed
Talleyrand, the French minister of overseas colonies, that he could
provide him
with anything he might need to re-conquer Haiti. After the end of the
war with
Britain, Napoleon could count on the two Anglo-Saxon forces for an
attack on
the Caribbean island.

RESTORATION OF SLAVERY

In 1802 the French emperor equipped a huge fleet to invade Haiti, under
the
command of General Victor Emanuel Le Clerc, the husband of his sister
Pauline.
The plan was to disarm the Haitians, deport Toussaint and restore
slavery. The
black general was invited to talks aboard one of the ships, was arrested
and
taken to Fort-de-Joux. Soon, he was found dead, "seated, with his
forehead
leaning on the chimney wall, on April 7, 1803."

Diallo, of Senegalese origin, considers that the slave uprising in Saint
Domingue made the system stop working and prompted Bonaparte’s merciless
attack. "Some people believe that Napoleon’s action was motivated by his
wife
Josephine, the daughter of a wealthy family, the Tascher de la Pagerie,
who
owned plantations in Martinique," he adds. In reality he was moved by
economic
reasons: the pressure of influential colonialists, among them, those of
Bordeaux.

The slave trade and slavery were not definitively abolished until 1848.
"But
the system could not be ended even then," Karfa Diallo affirms.

And Patrick Serrés illustrates that point by relating how, at the end of
the
18th century, although the French state had prohibited the preparing
ships to
that end, this beautiful city in which we are talking continued fitting
them to
maintain the slave trade. Researcher Danielle Petrissans-Cavalles
"demonstrates
how the visible traces of that period still exist here, in street names
of our
time."

It has been a veritable voluntary amnesia, as their wealth and the
beauty of
their construction are attributed to wine production and trade with the
colonies. But it has been intentionally forgotten that one part of that
wealth
is also linked to slave trafficking."

Diallo adds that when the first slaves began to arrive in Bordeaux, the
authorities initially opposed it. But then they conceded the bonuses
that the
French state had attributed to the ship owners to develop that so-called
trade
with the Americas. Those subsidies financing a veritable genocide
continued
even after the first proclamation of the French Revolution against
slavery in
the Declaration of the Rights of Man, given that the Bordeaux ship
owners, who
already had wealthy plantations in the Caribbean, took themselves to the
Paris
Convention and convinced the Assembly that as slavery was, more than
anything
else, a colonial enterprise, the equality proclaimed in 1789 was for men
of the
metropolis and not of the colonies. That argument also worked in Cuba.

"In that period black people were hardly known. Hearing that they had
created a
state and disrupted a system after fighting a fierce war, was something
extraordinary."

On the other hand, Bonaparte and the kings of the period had a very
strong
reaction, as Saint Domingue was the laboratory of colonization in
America. It
was coveted by Spain and Britain because of its production of sugar,
coffee,
indigo, cotton, cacao and tobacco, supported by colonists with effective
drainage systems. The wealth of the more than 2,000 estates responded to
the
brutal exploitation of half a million African slaves, justified by the
fallacy
that they were not human beings, but beasts. The Africans were forced to
work
for more than 12 hours per day under the burning tropical sun which, as
the
national poet would say, "scorches everything everywhere," and collapsed
exhausted.

Women slaves were systematically raped which, over the years, gave rise
to a
layer of mixed-race people, likewise in their majority subjected in
various
ways. They were beaten or had their faces branded for the most
insignificant
infractions. Others were punished by having their limbs or even genitals
cut
off. For those reasons the uprising was very bloody.

"Haiti was able to win thanks to the political and military skill of
L’Ouverture, but remained besieged, everyone abandoned it," states
Diallo.
Then France obliged Haiti to pay 10 million in gold in order to grant
its
independence, an enormous and incalculable sum in the parameters of the
time,
which completely bled it dry. That forced it to enter into a system of
corruption."

Diallo insists on the need for more research into the reality of
colonization.
There are territories that are rich in resources and should be
prosperous but
which have suffered from being dominated and exploited over the
centuries. "The
assertion that Africa has been the victim of Africans is just an excuse,
although some coastal kings did participate in capturing Africans in the
interior. They went to them and offered them alcohol, cheap trinkets and
weapons, which they needed to fight against their adversaries. I believe
that
is what is missing in Africa is research work and the rescue of the
historical
memory. I studied in Senegal, where blacks were trafficked on the Island
of
Gorée. Scholars should know everything that is behind that, what the
history
of colonialism is. It is also necessary to demand reparations. Africans
are not
demanding that, but it is necessary, reparations can and should be made
to
Haiti, a change in international policy on Haiti.

Diver Cités is calling on Europe and America to participate in
reparations.
For example, priority education for the barrios, the most backward
territories,
the most needy. This has been proposed to President Bush, but he refused
to
acknowledge the existence of any debt to Africa or African Americans. In
any
event Diallo believes that Africa now has the possibility of moving on
to
Affirmative Action, although problems are not the same everywhere. "We
should
do something to promote the truth of what colonization and slavery were.

"Everyone is in agreement with erecting a memorial to those effects
here; it
was a unanimous decision, especially in Bordeaux University, and the
city
council appointed a commission that approved the idea."

But when the memorial was unveiled on the Colbert dock in the Place de
la
bourse, it was such a modest one that it was difficult to locate.
Granma’s
initial search was fruitless.

"A UNESCO agreement calls for celebrating every August 23 as Abolition
of
Slavery Day and asks culture ministers in all countries to promote that
date.
It would be a good suggestion for President Obama. Little by little we
can
sensibilize the world, every government."

Diver Cités also dreams of the reality of the diversity being promoted
by
President Sarkosy. France acknowledged five years ago that it had
committed a
crime against humanity. Now, together with the United States, Britain,
Spain
and all those nations that enriched themselves via slavery, and the
international community in general, could act together, above all in
terms of
Haiti, which has been reduced from the richest colony to the most
impoverished.
With reason, Diallo believes that in order to solve the problem of the
black
world, one has to begin with Haiti. •

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Marguerite Laurent, a non Haitian citizen, has been peddling disinformation for yearsabout Haiti. This “report” on IRI and me is more of the same. Marguerite Laurent analysis can best be described as a fact-free zone. The only thing one can be certain of is its her affection for left-wing autocrats and aspiring dictators in Haiti.

I am promoting democratic values so my countrymen kept in the dark by an autocratic and corrupt governement in Haiti can stand up and defend what's theirs. For the propagandists like Marguerite it's about getting rich on the back of my poor Haitian brothers, check the list and the links you will understand the kind of corruption some are trying to hide:

1. Haiti Democracy Project

2. Haiti :: The Komisar Scoop

Stanley Lucas

[XXPANTHAXX]

For the record Stanley, please share with us, what specifically have you or your organization done to remove the neo-colonialists from Ayiti? also, what exactly was your purpose in joining this site?