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    Haiti's White Rulers Have Spoken on Haiti's Political Future 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on July 14, 2021, 10:12 am, in reply to "There were mass mobilisations against outside interference"

    9th July 2021

    (quote)
    The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns the arrogance and illegality of
    United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti Helen La Lime's July 8 statement that
    Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph will be the new president, just one day
    after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

    The decision was announced to the press after a closed-door UN Security Council
    meeting had been called on Haiti. But BAP asks: Who gave the United Nations
    special envoy the power to make that kind of determination for the people of
    Haiti?

    This sounds like a play right out of the old regime-change book. As BAP stated
    in its July 7 press release, BAP smells a rat[1].

    BAP is concerned the political situation the United States created by supporting
    a dictatorship in Haiti is quickly replicating the moment when the United States
    swept in to colonize the predominantly African/Black country after the 1915
    assassination of Haiti's president, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam.

    "The Black Alliance for Peace remains steadfast in our call against foreign
    intervention and occupation of Haiti," says Jemima Pierre, BAP's Haiti/Americas
    Coordinator. "We call on all anti-imperialist and Black internationalist forces
    to stand with the Haitian people and oppose U.S. and European interventions
    deployed under the guise of the 'Responsibility to Protect.'"

    What Haiti needs is authentic national sovereignty and self-determination.

    "When people say Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, they
    fail to understand it is the Pan-European colonial powers that have kept Haiti
    with its hands tied behind its back," says BAP National Organizer Ajamu
    Baraka. "We say time out on white Western powers causing destruction in the
    global South."

    Shortly after Democrats wrung their hands over the possibility of Donald Trump
    staying past his term in office, Biden came into office and immediately lent his
    support to Moïse to stay beyond the February 7 term limit. That decision sent
    thousands of Haitians protesting in the streets week after week.

    "The Haitian people clearly understood that the United States, the United
    Nations, and the Organization of American States were behind this," says Chris
    Bernadel, a member of BAP's Haiti/Americas Committee. "During these massive
    protests, they called for all of these Western powers to exit Haiti."

    While Biden expressed support for Black Lives Matter and for democracy during
    his campaign for president, true support would have meant ending U.S. meddling
    in Haiti's affairs. This assassination relieves the Biden-Harris administration
    of the embarrassment of having to reconcile the contradiction between pretending
    to respect Black lives and democracy and supporting a dictator who had reigned
    after his term had ended on February 7[2].

    That is why for BAP, it doesn't matter who pulled the trigger to kill Moïse
    because the Pan-European colonial-capitalist powers are responsible for the
    suffering of the Haitian people.

    BAP vigorously opposes any and all foreign institutions and structures
    intervening in Haiti. The Haitian people must be allowed to exercise
    self-determination and address their internal political situation without
    interference, as BAP noted in its July 6 press release[3].

    Links:
    [1] - https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/moiseassassination
    [2] - https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/haitiralliesmarch2829
    [3] - https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/haitimassacres
    (/quote)
    -- https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/haitiswhiterulers

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