THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL GOES TO HAITI TO STOP THE CALL FOR RESIGNATION
OF THE LATORTUE REGIME
by Marguerite Laurent, April 26, 2005

All 15 members of the United Nations Security Council are in Haiti from
April 12 to April 16, 2005 to, according to their press release on the
matter, "review progress achieved in areas such as security,
development, the political transition, human rights, institution-building and the
humanitarian situation."

Well, if in fact it is human rights and security “progress” the U.N.
Security Council wants to review, they won’t find any.  And please give
Haitians some credit. The great show of slaughtering soldiers at Petit
Goaves and Ravix and Jean Anthony (Grenn Sonen) in Port-au-Prince less
than a week before the arrival of the U.N. Security Council’s
unprecedented visit, does not suddenly make the U.N. troops in Haiti
“progressive,” “un-biased” or “peacekeepers” instead of the negative and
ineffective force they have been in Haiti since they got to Haiti.

If the U.N. Security Council would deign to hear the sons and daughters
of the majority of HAITIANS on the issue of democracy in Haiti, then
they would know that Haitians are suffering more under the auspices of
U.N. troops, there to support the U.N./U.S.-backed Latortue government,
than they have ever suffered under the Constitutional government it
replaced.

If the U.N. Security Council would deign to hear the sons and daughters
of the majority of HAITIANS on the issue of democracy in Haiti, then
the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network would urge the U.N. Security
Council to pay very close attention to the new report on the
socio-political, human rights and next electoral contest  situation in Haiti, released
by our lawyers in Haiti, The Association of University Graduates
Motivated For A Haiti With Rights “AUMOHD.” (Aumohd’s report may be found on
our website at:
)

Haitians are the most politicized people on earth and they well
understand the subterfuges of diplomacy and the function of politics and
propaganda. It is a mistake to believe that illiterate means unintelligent.
Or, for that matter, that schooling means one is intelligent.

Kampe bourik la, that's kreyol for - understand this - : To many
Haitians the U.N. Security Council's visit is nothing more than an effort to
reconcile the bourgeoisie forces who were just last week all clamoring
for the resignation of Latortue. The visit’s purpose it to us basically
an effort to solidify and reunite the unraveling immoral coalition of
restaveks-elites who helped overthrow Haiti's elected government. That’s
it. A public relations STUNT to turn the tide towards the original
agenda: Never let the Lavalas party ever be able to win an election in
Haiti again and mount its socially progressive programs. That’s the agenda.
It’s the one that is being put back on track by the U.N. Security
Council’s visit. Already we are hearing: more policemen will be sent to
Haiti. Of course no one mentions their function is to kill, kill, kill
peaceful demonstrators and any one supporting Lavalas, democracy or
resisting foreign debt, dependence and occupation. No that is what’s left
unsaid.  But there are plenty of announcements and hand shaking with Gwo
Gerard Latortue and his other fat cats as he grins from ear to ear
greedily thinking about more money for arms, for bullets, for paying down
foreign debt. But none for literacy programs,  affordable housing,
portable waters, to subsidize the high price of rice, gas

- More monies will be thrown to the Coup d’etat bunch…..more and more,
that is, for the people of Haiti to owe  which foreign “experts”  and
the tiny rich elites will cash in foreign banks, all in an effort to
legitimize the coup d’etat with a selection of Haiti’s next leader by the
U.S., France and Canada.

The presence of the U.N. Security council in Haiti is to have these
colonized Haitian puppies, who have no popular support in Haiti, whose
hold on power over the masses right now are threaded together only by
foreign monies, foreign troops, a foreign-backed coup, and media
disinformation. The U.N. Security council is in Haiti to pamper the bourgeoisies’
ruffled feathers – hey they neither got the monies promised ( a
billions $) as reward for giving a Haitian face to the coup d’etat, nor the
government positions they thought were owed. The U.S. pulled out Gwo
Gerard and not one of their own from the former opposition. But no worries.
Papa U.S. will make it better – through Brazil, through the U.N.
Security Council, to show the support it cannot show publicly. See, President
Bush can’t get too publicly INVOLVED with bringing back dictatorship to
Haiti when he’s supposed to be spreading democracy around the globe.

It’s all doable though. Because now that the Coup d’etat contingent are
rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful surrogates of the Western
powers, the U.N. Security Council, no less. Well, they feel better.
They’ll hold up on clamoring for Gwo Gerard’s resignation.
That’s what all the theatrics (slaughtering of former soldiers) leading
up to the meet with the
powers-that-be-and-rub-shoulders-and-get-validated was about. The desires and democratic and justice needs of the
ordinary Haitians in Cite Soleil, Bel Air, Milot, Petit Goave, Au Cayes,
well, it’s not  and has never been a real part of the equation. 
Ambassador Foley’s agenda for Haiti is simply back on track.

HAITIAN STREET DEMONSTRATOR: "The Whites are shouting ELECTIONS,
ELECTIONS, ELECTIONS for Haiti! Elections have become the new chain the
former slave-owners and their black overseers want to encircle around black
feet in Haiti. Where was the U.N. Security Council when Caricom called
for assistance, when President Aristide called for assistance that
would have shored up the elected Haitian government? Now that the people's
voting rights have been trashed, their voices silenced, their freedom
taken away, their country occupied, now the Whites and the bourgeoisie
can't stop calling for elections in Haiti...."

The demonstrators on the streets of Haiti are saying that Haiti's slide
into complete lawlessness started with the bi-centennial coup and
continues today with most of the former Haitian military, known human rights
abusers, drug dealers, gangsters and rapists, paid 5,000 each and
restructured into the new “law and order” state apparatus.

The demonstrators cannot forget the U.N. entered Haiti to stop human
rights abuses, protect civilians and now suddenly all they are there to
do is “prepare the country for elections.”

How can they when they are the victims of the U.N. troops’
unwillingness to disarm the coup d’etat instigators, the victims of the U.N.’s
willingness to arm the former military, paramilitary and re-imaged them as 
“police” or so-called “legitimate” political party candidates. The
peaceful demonstrators cannot conveniently forget that the U.S./Canada and
French soldiers invaded Haiti with the U.N. Security council's
permission to purportedly "stop a bloodbath from occurring" after the ouster of
President Aristide. But a bloodbath wasn't averted at all. More than
10,000 Haitians have been reported dead as a result of the U.S.-backed
regime change in Haiti. And the human right situation that the U.N.
allegedly entered Haiti to stabilize has worsen, making Haiti a hell on
earth for the majority of poor Haitians.

In fact, let us not forget, the first thing the U.S. Marines, who
preceded the UN troops, did in Haiti was allow the paid mercenary, Special
forces-trained assassin, Guy Phillipe, into Port au Prince while the
U.S. soldiers closed down the medical school doors to over 200 Haitian
medical students turning the school into its army barracks.

Let us not forget that with the February 2004 bicentennial coup, more
than three thousand (3,000) hard core  prisoners from the National
Penitentiary were simply let out of prison and are today roaming the streets
of Haiti killing, pillaging, raping and generally presenting a
significant danger and contributing to the question of insecurity that has
increased rather than decreased as over 7,000 UN troops strut through the
streets of Haiti, weapon at the ready.

Weapons, a few Haitians are saying, used to force Haitian women into
corners for UN soldiers to rape them. Weapons that have summarily
executed suspected “chimeres” (“bandits”) including brutally murdered pregnant
Haitian women, as in Cite Soleil last week, school children, market
women, unarmed civilian demonstrators and an unknown number of young black
Haitian men, who the interim government has criminalized to dehumanized
as "bandits" to justify the summary execution.

The U.N. soldiers along with Haitian police have been accused by human
rights activist of summary executions. The current slaughter in Cite
Soleil by MINUSTHA is an example. Yet, Haiti doesn't have a death
penalty.

Even criminals, like for instance the ex-soldiers who took up arms
against the Constitutional government, such as Ravix and Grenn Sonen, do
not deserve to be summarily executed by U.N. troops. No human being, who
is unarmed, wounded and defenseless, even a Hitler deserves a trial if
he could have been duly arrested without risking any more innocent
lives. That is what civilization is about: the rule of LAWS!

According to reports both Ravix and Grenn Sonen (Jean Anthony) were
caught alive, were wounded, disarmed or not even armed in the case of
Ravix, and couldn't defend themselves. Yes these guys are killers and
needed to be stopped but where is the example of justice-at-work that the UN
is supposed to be teaching Haitians? How is pumping so many bullets
into Ravix and Grenn Sonen, to the point where their faces are
unrecognizable, a sign of democracy-at-work, an example of "stopping the Haitian
bloodletting?"

Because people who went to see these two bodies found them so
completely unrecognizably filled with bullets, some Haitians are even
speculating that both these men, former military who took up arms against the
Constitutional government, were not actually killed by their former
benefactor's proxies, but were just taken off the scene for SHOW. To prepare
for the U.N. Security Council's meeting in Haiti and show that the U.N.
troops were not only, for a year, presiding over the killing of Laval’s
supporters but are "fair and even-handed" and are neutralizing all
armed factions.

The truth of the matter is, it is not hard to see why Haitians don't
trust the U.N., the U.S. or any of the International Community bodies
traditionally supporting the armed factions for the bourgeoisie against
the people's liberation. The Haitian people have been clear, they prefer
to die than abdicate their power as a nation, as a people to 
foreign-made sweatshop kingpins and the variously elite architects of the demise
of justice and democracy in Haiti.

The U.N. Security Council members in Haiti could learn a lot about what
democracy means if they would come down from the Montana mountain to
observe the daily demonstrations against the Coup d’etat are bound to
continue. Even  as they fall down under U.N. bullets, even (it is was
reported that at yesterday’s demonstration for the return of President
Aristide, at least 10 peaceful demonstrators were slaughtered) as innocent
Haitian civilians attempt to make their voices heard, even as young
Haitian men, who unlike the criminals freed from prison as a result of the
U.N. security council's intervention, men who had no criminal record,
are continually are arrested, brutally murdered by both Haitian police
and UN soldiers, they refuse to stop calling for the physical return of
President Aristide and the Constitutional government.

“Democracy” the people of Haiti are saying means the process by which
they get better access to literacy, health care, a living wage,
Elections is not a means in and of itself. It must represent a
believable-by-the people, for-the-people push towards portable water, peace, justice,
freedom of _expression, end of social repressions, summary executions!.
There can be no elections if the peoples’ call for justice, civil and
human rights, for return of President Aristide, for validation of their
last election,  for respect for their will, there can be no legitimate
elections in Haiti if these demands of the people of Haiti, are not part
of the equation for  the U.N. security councils-backed elections in
Haiti. Will the U.N. Security Council hear the people of Haiti or turn a
deaf ear, blind eye and unwisely and undemocratically continue pushing
for an election the Haitian majority has said it will not stand for
unless President Aristide is physically returned to Haiti, all political
prisoners are released, and all illegal, arbitrary arrests, extended and
improper detentions and summary executions in Haiti stops.

***************
Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers' Leadership Network
**************

"Men anpil chay pa lou"  is Kreyol for - "Many hands make light a heavy
load."

See, The Haitian Leadership Networks'  7 "Men Anpil Chay Pa Lou"
campaigns to help restore Haiti's independence, the will of the mass
electorate and the rule of law.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html
*******************
Here is what you can do to help us help the people of Haiti:
***************
Action Requested from Haiti solidarity groups and activists for justice
and democracy
**********************

Please circulate our mailings and posts to your mailing list and e-mail
contacts. Subscribe by writing to: Erzilidanto@yahoo.com

Read, adopt and circulate the Haiti Resolution (see below) from the
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and/or the Porto Alegre Declarations on
Haiti adopted at the World Social Forum in 2005:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/declaration.html

Circulate the human rights reports, especially the latest Miami Law
Center report:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/human_rights_reports/c1humanrightsreports.html

Do Press Work: Join our letter writing campaigns to help free the
political prisoners in Haiti, stop the persecution of Haiti's most popular
political party and restore Constitutional rule. Write a letter, call
the media, fax, - See our Press Work page for sample letters and contact
information:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/pressreleases_hll.html

HLLN Networkers are urged, in addition to the general writing campaigns
and e-mail circulations, to also consider volunteering as primary
coordinators/contributors to one of our seven campaigns:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaigns.html

Support our lawyers in Haiti and HLLN projects, such as, our
partnership with AUMOHD, the young human rights lawyers in Haiti who are
defending the defenseless poor whose only crime is that they voted for Lavalas,
supported Constitutional rule or are resisting a return of the bloody
U.S.-trained Haitian army and US-sponsored dictatorship. For information
on AUMOHD, go to: http://www.april6vt.org/
*********

Support the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Haiti Resolution:

1. Demand the return of constitutional rule to Haiti by restoring all
elected officials of all parties to their offices throughout the country
until the end of their mandates and another election is held, as
mandated by Haiti's Constitution;

2. Condemn the killings, illegal imprisonment and confiscation of the
property of supporters of Haiti's constitutional government and insist
that Haiti's illegitimate "interim government" immediately cease its
persecution and put a stop to persecution by the thugs and murderers from
sectors in their police force, from the paramilitaries, gangs and
former soldiers;

3. Insist on the immediate release of all political prisoners in
Haitian jails, including Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, Interior Minister
Privert and other constitutional government officials and
folksinger-activist Sò Ann;

4. Insist on the disarmament of the thugs, death squad leaders and
convicted human rights violators and their prosecution for all crimes
committed during the attack on Haiti's elected government and support the
rebuilding of  Haiti's police force, ensuring that it excludes anyone who
helped to overthrow the democratically elected government or who
participated in other human rights violations;

5. Stop the indefinite detention and automatic repatriation of Haitian
refugees and immediately grant Temporary Protected Status to all
Haitian refugees presently in the United States until democracy is restored
to Haiti; and

6. Support the calls by the OAS, CARICOM and the African Union for an
investigation into the circumstances of President Aristide's removal.
Support the enactment of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's T.R.U.T.H Act which
calls for U.S. Congressional investigation of the forcible removal of
the democratically elected President and government of Haiti.
***************