Hands Off Haiti!
Denounce Canada's Role in Organizing Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti
Protest in Haiti October
10, 2022, opposes foreign occupation and demands resignation of
unelected Prime Minister.
The Haitian people have been filling the streets of their cities for the last two months, demanding an end to foreign meddling in their affairs and the resignation of the unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry imposed on them by decision of the UN mission in Haiti and the U.S.-led Core Group. This group is composed of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, the Ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, the United States of America and the Special Representative of the Organization of American States (OAS). Meanwhile, the Trudeau government has been the public face of a U.S.-orchestrated campaign to prepare the ground for a serious escalation in foreign interference. It was finally made explicit on October 7 that one of the forms this is intended to take is sending a "specialized international armed force" to Haiti to put down "armed gangs."
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demands unelected Haitian Prime Minister All kinds of cynical machinations have taken place to suggest that what was being contemplated was not another military occupation like the badly named UN "stabilization" mission, MINUSTAH, launched in 2004 right after the coup orchestrated by the U.S., France and Canada against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas Party. MINUSTAH's mandate was not ended until 2017 and the UN has never been held to account for the trail of extrajudicial executions, thousands of other deaths, atrocities and destruction it left in its wake. That brutal legacy is more than enough evidence for why the Haitian people will never accept that those same actors' "help" is needed once again.
On September 21, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosted a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss the situation in Haiti and what to do about it. He said there was a need for regional partners like Canada, the U.S. and those in the Caribbean Community, and also others like France, to play a role in helping Haiti provide security, stability and prosperity for its citizens. He stressed that what he was advocating was a Haitian-led solution. Bob Rae, Canadian Ambassador to the UN, said mistakes had been made in the past where interventions happened that didn't have the full support of the Haitian people. "We need to make sure that we're working with the people of Haiti," he said.
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly did much the same at a meeting she convened on the sidelines of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in Lima, Peru on October 6, co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Haiti's so-called Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus. A statement issued by the chairs said that 19 member countries of the OAS had come together to discuss the situation in Haiti and how the international community can respond to the crisis there. The countries were not named. The statement talked of promoting "solutions developed by and for Haitians," and called for humanitarian corridors to be set up immediately to enable fuel to leave the country's main terminal that has been blockaded for weeks, and for the "international community" to provide "robust security assistance" that includes strengthening the Haitian National Police.
To try and give credibility to the fraud of a "Haitian-led solution" that Canada claims to be seeking, the head OAS functionary was dispatched to tell the U.S and UN-imposed government of Haiti to request urgent support from the international community and to define the characteristics of the "international security force" it was asking for, which he did publicly on Twitter. The illegitimate Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers did what they were told without delay. The next day they passed a resolution authorizing the foreign-imposed Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, to request from international partners the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force "in sufficient quantity" to stop the crisis across the country caused "partly by the criminal actions of armed gangs." That presumably was proof positive, for anyone naive enough to believe it, that the coming intervention could not be considered an invasion or a foreign military occupation since the foreign troops would be in Haiti at the invitation of the country's government.
The official request of the U.S. and UN-imposed "government" was passed on forthwith as a call to the "international community" and to the UN Security Council by UN Secretary General António Guterres who advised that it be considered an urgent matter. News agencies reported that Guterres consequently proposed in a letter to the Security Council that a rapid action force be sent to Haiti to support the efforts of the Haitian Police to "remove the threat posed by armed gangs and provide immediate protection to critical infrastructure and services."
The whole thing has sparked outrage on the part of different forces in Haiti. The country's ten remaining elected senators resolved unanimously to demand that the resolution of the de facto government inviting an armed intervention be revoked immediately. They said the unelected de facto Prime Minister and Council of Ministers had no authority to make such a request, that under the country’s constitution only the president of the country could do that, and that position remains vacant. They called it "an attempt by an illegitimate, unpopular and increasingly contested government to resort to foreign forces to maintain itself in power at all costs and thus delay Haiti's return to constitutional and democratic order." In their counter resolution the senators offered proposals for political and practical measures to be taken internally to address the crisis.
Other political forces that are part of the Montana Accord have denounced the invitation to a foreign intervention force as an act of treason. This accord was signed on August 30, 2021 by several Haitian political parties and other political formations to establish a transitional government following the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse until there were conditions to hold new elections. All the signatories to the Accord oppose the de facto prime minister and his government, imposed behind the backs of the Haitian people.
The people meanwhile have intensified their protests beginning a week-long mobilization on October 10 with thousands in the streets every day to say No to an Invasion!, No to Occupation!, Down with Henry!, and to demand an end to all foreign meddling in their affairs.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) condemns the Trudeau government for the dirty work it is doing against the Haitian people by violating their sovereignty and planning an act of aggression against them. There should be no Canadian military or any type of armed force sent to Haiti under any pretext. Canada, the U.S. and its Core Group must stop their meddling and respect the Haitian people's right to elect leaders and governments of their own choosing and to pursue their own nation-building projects and models of development free from coercion.
CPC(M-L) salutes the courage and tenacity of the Haitian people who are determined to fight for what is theirs by right like their forebears did when they liberated themselves from slavery and put an end to colonial rule in their country at the same time through their own efforts. CPC(M-L) calls on Canadians and Quebeckers to join actions and organize their own to demand Canada have no part in any armed intervention in Haiti, that it stop its meddling and that it respect Haiti's sovereignty and right to self-determination.
Hands Off Haiti!
No Canadian
Troops in Haiti!
All Out to Stand with the
Haitian People Against Foreign Interference and Aggression!
( With files from Le Nouvelliste, Global News. Photos: Haiti Liberté)
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 28 - October
13, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520281.HTM
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