Blood on their hands

[struggle4progress]

<snip> The Duvalierists, financed by the elite, protected by the United Nations “peacekeeping" mission, are methodically murdering men, women and children thought to be supporters of President Aristide, butchering them in the streets and leaving the bodies, maimed and horrific, in the streets as an example to “les autres” (“the others”). <snip>

According to Pina and other Haitian resistance sources, the Haitian elite, led by two implacable enemies of Aristide - Andy Apaid and Reginald Boulos - have been buying support in the slums, financing gang terror against Lavalas supporters. The result of this program, says Pina, appears in stories in the North American press saying the violence is the result of inter-gang warfare in the slums.

In a letter from his jail cell, Father Gérard Jean Juste exhorts sympathizers around the world not to be deterred by "hooded men, intimidation, masked gunmen, massacre, masked men attacking the churches, forced entries in our rectories, arbitrary arrests, defamation, character assassination, prison, threats of death." <snip>

Most people do not know about the financial blackmail by the Inter-American Development Bank, the IDB, which promised Haiti loans to reconstruct its health infrastructure and then refused to hand out the loans until Aristide's government repaid earlier loans made to the dictators while Aristide was begging the U.S. not to aid them in dismembering Haiti. <snip>

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[GreatAuntK]

1. Oh god,

I remember early this year a hearing, I was so proud of our Congressman Wexler, and some members of the Congressional Black Caucus. They had accusations that our govt. was involved in supporting the criminals that went in, and weapons sent via the Dominican Republic, and the U.S. didn't offer to help get Aristide out until it was leave or be killed by the incoming rebels. Florida Republicans really shamed themselves in this episode.

My sister and her son went to Haiti twice in the last 5 years, supposedly to help build schools, but things were so bad, they really, in one week, only got to build outhouses and benches.

The Haitian refuges come to South Florida and get thrown into detention centers for months, families separated. I have this image seared in my head from last year, of a little girl in Sunday School clothes, hanging off the side of a boat by an arm, welcome to America, little one.

[GreatAuntK]

2. I have an idea

Doesn't G.W. have a timber company? He should go to Haiti and plant trees, lots of trees. Really, somebody ought to.