Kisa Minista ap fè ann Ayiti?

Every year the explanation for having UN troops in Haiti changes....now it's to wait until NEW ELECTIONS in 2011!!!!
These suited crooks at the US Embassy in Haiti see absolutely nothing illegal, immoral or greedy with taking down a Constitutional government, creating anarchy, slaughtering 20,000 Haitians and then setting up a shadow government of foreign NGOs to run Haiti behind UN-firepower cover.

It's like Bush abandoning 'free trade' today to save free trade. Right? Is that how it goes - destroy Haiti's democracy to save it!!! OHHHH, I see, to get Sanderson's ilk and her "Hemispheric success" with the racist, ever brutal Brazil and ohh, that human-rights preserving country, Columbia? doesn't matter out of all the Latin American countries in Haiti today, Haiti, under the two Constitutional government Sanderson's ilk deposed off, had less violence than any of these Latin American countries.

Truth is turned on its head, as Americans have bought the colonial narrative and myth on an innately violent Haiti, incapable of self-rule without US NGOs and UN proxy protectorate helping the rich fleece the country dry..
See below:
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Monday, December 15, 2008
U.S. Diplomacy in the Americas: A Conversation with the Diplomatic Corps

Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs;
U.S. Ambassadors to Western Hemisphere Countries
MS. ROTHKOPF: Thank you very much.
This next question is for Ambassador Sanderson.
Can you comment on the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, including successes and failures as well as the role that various countries in the hemisphere are playing?

AMBASSADOR JANET A. SANDERSON (Haiti): Thank you very much. I'm actually very pleased to have an opportunity to talk about this peacekeeping operation which from our perspective is one of the successes of the hemisphere.
You have a very strong hemispheric presence in MINUSTAH, which is the UN peacekeeping and stabilization force currently on the ground in Haiti.

It is led by a Brazilian, and 70 percent of the troops on the
ground come from Latin American countries. It is a strong hemispheric effort, and it has had a significant role in I think putting Haiti back on track after a long period of political turmoil.

Security on the ground is much better than it was in 2006, and as we saw during the recent spate of hurricanes and tropical storms that hit Haiti in August and September, MINUSTAH, working with the international community, can also play an important relief and humanitarian role as it did.

The Argentinean troops in Gonaives, for instance, rescued over 150 people who were drowning as the flood waters came down the mountains. And the Nepalese who were out in the central plateau saw their entire log base wiped away in the floods.

But MINUSTAH stepped up along with the international community and I think there is certainly a better sense in Haiti, and I hope in the hemisphere, about the important role that the UN peacekeeping force can play.

But it goes beyond that, let's be honest. In the years leading up to the election of 2006 the gang-related violence, the lack of a credible police force, MINUSTAH's role has been critical in stabilizing the country and giving it a little breathing space so it can start putting back into place the democratic institutions like a professional police force that is going to be so important to its future.

I have to tell you that we on the ground have been particularly impressed by the leadership of the Brazilians.
Not only the troops, but also the force commander and the other members of the hemisphere that have done such a good job.

MINUSTAH's role goes beyond policing and troops on the ground. They also have a very active judicial and police reform program and other programs that we in the international community complement with our
own assistance programs.

It is a success story. It is a peacekeeping force on the ground derived primarily from this hemisphere that has worked. And one of the key attributes of the success, we hope, will be that when the presidential transition takes place in 2011 that MINUSTAH can begin the process, as President Preval has said, of drawing down,
withdrawing, and turning over a more stable and more secure country to
the Haitian people.
Thank you.=
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The U.N. troops in Haiti are paid $601.58 million per year and have been in Haiti for four years. That is $50.13 million per month, $1.64 million per day. Yet, during the recent floods and hurricane season in Haiti, the Haitian President had to call for international help from the international community. Wasn't that help already in Haiti, to the tune of 9,000 U.N. - MINUSTAH- troops already cashing in $1.64 million per day?

Why are they there, if incapable of providing emergency help? If they had not one amphibious unit, temporary bridge, caravan of trucks or equipment to reach Haitians in distress, what use are they to the people of Haiti? Are their war tanks, heavy artillery, guns and military presence in Haiti making Haitians more secure, more safe, more free, more prosperous, better nourished, educated and healthier than before they landed four years ago? No. See:


- The Allege illegal confiscation of private property by DYNCORPS, USAID, MINUSTAH and US Embassy in Haiti;
-Video: U.N. Massacre on July 6, 2005 in Site Soley;
-Video: U.N. Massive Attack on Dec. 22, 2006 on Site Soley civilians;
-The Cite Soleil Massacre Declassification Project;
-Humanitarian aid workers and UN peacekeepers raping, abusing Haiti's children;
- Pointing Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth; and,
- UN indifference to the Disappearance of Haitian veteran human rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine.


Question: What is the UN doing in Haiti?
Answer: Disenfranchising 9 million sovereign Black Haitian peoples in order to carry the global elites' corporate/IMF/WB looting and recolonization of Haiti.
The UN, as military proxy for the US and the global trans-national corporate elites, is securing, at gun point, the protection of right-wing armed groups (Guy Philippe, Lame Ti Manchet, old army) and the exploitation, hunger and repression of 9 million sovereign Black Haitian peoples under the mask of "humanitarian aid," "peacekeeping" and providing security to Haitians. (Recommended HLLN Links (Energy and Mining in Haiti): The wealthy, powerful and well-armed are robbing the Haitian people blind ; Haitian Riches ;Report of David Josue tour in Brazil Demanding withdrawal of UN/Brazilian Troops from Haiti; and HLLN Links to: US Free trade Fraud promoting famine in Haiti ).
No Security provided to Haitians:
In fact, the UN and US military intervention in Haiti, since Feb. 29, 2004, has brought kidnapping, assassinations and child molestation, prostitution and trafficking to an unheard of level into Haiti. (Go to: HLLN links relating to Humanitarian aid workers and UN peacekeepers' abhorrent violation of the fundamental duty of care - raping and sexually abusing the Black poor and powerless in Haiti and Bush Bloodbath Brought to Haiti: Coup D'etat Massacres, Victims and Human Rights Abuses ; Video: U.N. Massacre on July 6, 2005 in Site Soley; and, U.N. Massive Attack on Dec. 22, 2006 on Site Soley ).


Is there a security reason why MINUSTHA is in Haiti?
No. The violence in Haiti is a myth and was launched and steadily exacerbated in Haiti, since 2004, with the landing of the UN/US troops, John McCain's International Republican Institutes'(IRI)-financed and supported Haitian thugs and repugnant economic elites.(See, A Hidden Agenda: John McCain and the IRI). Even so:

- According to the UN, the violence rate in Haiti is 5.6 homicide per 100,000;
- "...International comparisons are telling. In Brazil, there are 52.2 homicides per 100,000 youths, ... whereas in the USA the rate is 13.2 per 100,000..." (
See. Amnesty International on Brazil: "They come in Shooting" - Policing Socially Excluded Communities)

- According to the United Nations, the Caribbean region has a murder rate of 30 per 100,000 inhabitants.

"...The homicide rate in Peoria is about 15/100,000 per year.The homicide rate in Port-au-Prince is about 5/100,000 per year. ("Hellhole Haiti" not as Violent as Peoria, Illinois ).

-The UN says there were 487 homicides in Haiti last year (2007), or about 5.6 per 100,000 people.

A joint UN-World Bank study put the Caribbean region's average murder rate at 30 per 100,000 in 2007, with Jamaica registering nearly nine times as many murders - 49 homicides per 100,000 people - as those recorded by the UN in Haiti.

In 2006 the neighboring Dominican Republic had 23.6 homicides per 100,000, according to the Central American Observatory on Violence.

The United States had a murder rate of 5.7 per 100,000 in 2006, according to the US Department of Justice.

"There is not a large amount of violence [in Haiti]," said General Jose Elito Carvalho Siqueira, the former commander of the UN military force. "If you compare the levels of poverty with those of Sao Paulo or other cities, there is more violence there than here."

Why isn't the UN in Brazil, the US, helping them out with their crime rate? Or, Jamaica, Dominican Republic or Columbia, all have violence rates much greater than Haiti. Since the Bush Regime change in Haiti in 2004, Kidnapping, trafficking in child prostitution and murder and imprisonment and indefinite detention of Haitian civilians has increased a hundred fold.

Down with MINUSTHA in Haiti, Down with Brazil in Haiti. Respect for Black self-rule, dignity and sovereignty. Support the 2008 HLLN FreeHaitiMovement Demands.

Haiti's violent image is an outdated myth, insist UN peacekeepers
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/veil.html#myth ;
Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/paradigm.html#comparing ;
Violence, murder and social breakdown are threatening many small states in the Caribbean ;
Paradise Lost: the Caribbean's shocking secret, August 3, 2008
"Hellhole Haiti" not as Violent as Peoria, Illinois
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