The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been blatant in its support of rightwing forces, including the Haitian police, and has been systematic in carrying out human rights abuses against the poor people of Haiti, supporters of Aristide and his Lavalas party, writes Ben Terrell.
The election was conducted under the tutelage of the UN, which has been supporting and sustaining Haiti’s flagrantly illegal interim government with an occupation force of over 9,000 soldiers and police.
This new reality insitgated by the US led military coup and foreign occupation of Haiti was merely the logical consequence of years of preparation for the ultimate fall of Aristide and the popular Lavalas movement.
For the past two months, the coup-installed Haitian government led by de facto Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has been overseeing a climate of insecurity and generalized terror featuring, among other crimes, dramatic, high-profile kidnappings.
Today, like so many other times since its birth as a nation in 1804, Haiti bleeds. It bleeds because the powerful nations of the world are once again making an example of Haiti, forcing Haiti spend its time on the cross.
Recent findings indicate that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is employing suspected war criminals from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Haiti. The KLA is best known as a terrorist organization with ties to the CIA, US State Department, and narco-trafficking.
This article was published on February 29th 2004, the day of President Jean Bertrand Aristide's kidnapping and deportation by US Forces. The armed insurrection which contributed to unseating President Aristide on February 29th was the result of a carefully staged US military-intelligence operation.
