Hands
Off Haiti!
Kenyan Delegation Visits Haiti to Prepare for Foreign Intervention Force
A
Kenyan "security delegation" visited Haiti from August 20 to 23
on a so-called assessment mission intended to clear the path for
Kenya to lead la foreign interventionist force at the behest of the
U.S. and the "Core Group" against Haiti. France and Canada are heavily
involved in this "Core Group" along with the U.S. private interests
which operate in Haiti. The intervention of a Kenyan military or police
mission is said to be contingent on a UN Security Council mandate being
obtained.
The mission of the foreign intervention force to be headed by Kenya is
ostensibly to control violent gangs and strengthen the capacities of
the Haitian National Police (PNH) which is a known corrupt body. In
fact its purpose is to suppress the resistance of the Haitian people
and maintain the rule of the Haitian oligarchs, currently headed by the
illegitimate Ariel Henry regime, on behalf of narrow private interests
based in the U.S., Canada, France and elsewhere.
It is telling that the 10-person delegation arrived aboard the regular
American Airlines flight (AA 819) not from Kenya, but from the United
States. It was greeted at the international airport by members of the
Henry regime. The Kenyan delegation met with Prime Minister Henry,
members of his "government," his three-member appointed "High Council
for Transition" and members of the high command of the PNH.
Their main task during the three-day visit was to
collaborate with the high command of the PNH in developing a "security
plan" for their interventionist mission, a plan which was in fact
already prepared by the police with U.S. and Canadian police in command. The
plan originally called for a 1,000-strong force. However, during their
visit, Kenyan officials claimed that they would need a minimum
threshold of 2,000 officers who are ready to be deployed and they would
need a resolution from the UN Security Council (UNSC), which the U.S.
had said it would write. The delegation also proposed a "static
protection force" aimed at protecting “strategic
infrastructure” like the seaport, airport and police academy.
Kenya’s Foreign Minister Alfred N. Mutua was quoted by the New
York Times on September 5 as saying, "It's not a matter of
whether we are going to Haiti or not -- we are going. We are
convinced." He said he hoped the Kenyan officers would deploy to Haiti
by the end of the year. Mutua claims Kenya is partly inspired to take up this
mission by Pan-African unity toward the descendants of the
enslaved African peoples who liberated themselves from
French rule. Words are cheap. It is the other part which
Haitians are worried about -- that this intervention
has the aim of cementing foreign rule over Haiti at a time
the oppression of the Haitian people by foreign interference
and domination is already intolerable.
No amount of protocol, attempts to claim a UN mandate for a non-UN
military or police intervention or high ideals makes this mission legitimate.
This article was published in
Volume 53 Number 9 - September 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/M530099.HTM
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