Poor Haiti! After the earthquake, cholera, now Babydoc

by Elsie. Original French version posted at http://elsie-news.over-blog

Just released... An unpublished document from Haiti's past. The texts of Roland Paret and Frantz Voltaire accompanied with photographs of the epoch. Visit Elsie's blog for purchase info.

The French government offers a gift to the Haitians: the dictator Jean Claude Duvalier. It is symbolic of the contempt that the International community has for Haiti that at the same moment when Tunisia is delighted by the departure of Ben Ali, France sends to Haiti the dictator Jean Claude Duvalier. What a shame!

When are the Macoutes returning?

It appears that the assassins always return to the scene of their crimes.

Since 2004, with the boycott of the commemoration of the bicentenary of Haiti's Independence, one knew that the extreme right had orchestrated this great chaos, the purpose of which was to gain back its power.

It was known that the far right, lead by the voice of the writer Lyonel Trouillot, leader of the Collective Against the Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Independence hoped, and worked for the return of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

Latortue, the interim Prime Minister in 2004, was charged with giving power to the far right - the man who criss-crossed Haiti with two Lexus brand cars, had granted a diplomatic passport to Jean-Claude Duvalier. Yuk!

Elsewhere all these zentellectuels were preceded, supplemented, compromised, rewarded by France and are obligated in one manner or another (family, clans, businesses) to the 2 Duvaliers.

It isn't for naught that all the bands of "foreign travelers " talk on Mediapart, Le Point, L'Humanité and other publications. They repeat on the airwaves of all the programs of France Inter, RFI, etc that Aristide was worse than Duvalier.

These irresponsible zentellectuels have committed a tremendous number of evils in Haiti. All this in exchange for some glass jewelry. Yuk!

The far right is delighted, after the visit of Palin with the visit of Duvalier.

It is Préval, who took Jean-Robert Estimé, ancient minister of Foreign Affairs of Duvalier to recommend economic policies and nowadays as the head of plan WINNER for USAID which works with Monsanto, who receives Jean Claude Duvalier now.

At a time when Tunisia is trying to set-up a "clean" government, Haiti swims in its smut.

It is a bunch of riffraffs who, since 2004, gather in Haiti, which has become "the resort of the neo-bloody idiots."

Préval, who will complete his mandate which runs from 2006 to 2011, has betrayed the aspirations of the Haitian people. Now he organizes the return of a dictator who should be judged for his crimes. Yuk!

But what can one expect from a country the intellectuals of which boycotted the commemoration of the bicentennial of its independence?

That they are obligated by France, history will remember. As a friend said to me, who called me brewing with the news of this "return": who could have dreamed that we would live to see this day, when the moron son of the Martiniquais Papa Doc, charged with making zombis out of Haitians would come back to the scene of their crimes.

This year, in April, 2011, it will make 50 years since our dear Jacques Stephen Alexis will have been tortured and slaughtered by the Macoutes of 2 Duvalier.

Eh yes, as I said, papa Préval, what a good boy. Yuk!

Note: Translated from French. Apologies for any omissions or errors.

More on Duvalier's return at AlterPresse:

Haïti : Révolte et interrogations après le retour de Duvalier

Devastated Haitians Are Sitting Ducks for Flawed "Recovery" Efforts

• Haiti Earthquake Victim Refuses Amputation
• WHO Controversial Untested Vaccines Planned for Mil Haiti Quake Victims
• Canada Buys a "Lead" Role On Haiti Recovery Team
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE VICTIM REFUSES AMPUTATION

A Haitian man refused amputation of his hand. The hand sustained a crush injury. The man had been told by doctors who looked at his hand that it needed to be amputated, therefore he avoided seeking medical care for his injury for fear that he would lose his hand. Luckily, the man's hand will recover, a nurse practitioner who examined the injured hand assures him. That is, if he pursues follow up medical care in five days. During the earthquake crisis in Haiti, doctors performed many of the 2000 estimated amputations on earthquake victims who had compound fractures, which made them good candidates for a complete recovery under normal circumstances.

Carl Thelemarque remarked on his observations of amputations due to the disaster from his base at Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti in February:

"[...] injured people I send to the Dominican Republic for help, have mostly come back with limbs missing. That's all they are doing cutting, cutting, cutting and then closing the wound up and releasing the people. The doctors there are cutting off EVERYTHING, arms, legs, toes, feet, fingers. You have a cut or a wound and they just cutoff the limbs. The people returning from the DR are always missing a limb. They are doubly traumatized and more depressed."

Time reports that the number of post quake amputees in Haiti could jump to as many as 150,000 because infections continue to fester in quake victims, which could necessitate further amputations. Time speculates that this could make Haiti a "nation of amputees" by the end of the year, as this many amputees would account for 2% of Haiti's 9 million population.

The video about the would be amputee was posted by the YouTube channel VALABAB.

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WHO TO USE CONTROVERSIAL VACCINES ON HAITIANS
A new WHO vaccination campaign is targeting the one million people in Haiti who are homeless due to the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010. Haitians are to be the first to receive controversial vaccinations "According to a document published by WHO called "Public health risk assessment and interventions: Earthquake: Haiti,“ the UN health agency is strongly recommending that people in Haiti receive vaccinations against tetanus, measles, diphtheria, polio and pertussis in spite of the controversy surrounding these vaccines. The website The Flu Case reports that the same vaccine has proven to be toxic for some children inoculated with the vaccine in Bosnia.

"Jagoda Savic this week filed charges at a state prosecutor's office in Bosnia Herzegovina against WHO presenting evidence that WHO had helped conceal the damage caused by a CSL vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis distributed for free by UNICEF.

Savic presented evidence that 117 children suffered severe side effects.

[...]The WHO document also states that the swine flu poses a risk to the people of Haiti, suggesting the people of Haiti will be given the untested and toxic swine flu jab."

A particularly cogent comment is posted by someone who identifies only as a Medical laboratory scientist on The Flu Case site:

Just another excuse to pump vulnerable people full of lethal toxins. How do they think these unfortunates are going to respond to squalene, mercury, aluminum, formalin, detergents, spermatocides and what have you? Every opportunity is exploited by the authorities to undermine personal immunity, sterilise [make infertile], raise oxidative stress and deprive the victims of anti oxidants.

How about giving those people high quality nutrition, super foods, vitamins, minerals and trace elements to improve their health and overall resistance to disease. It's infinitely more effective than potentially lethal vaccines or iatrogenic medical drugs will ever be, unless of course they are intent on killing these people, which wouldn't surprise me at all."

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Background info:

FDA Approved H1N1 Vaccines Contain Ingredients Known to Cause Cancer and Death
Why Pig Flu Didn't Fly: the full story
H1N1: Preparations for the Militarization of Public Health
Is the WHO vaccination of millions in Haiti a Trojan Horse?
Is There a Eugenics Experiment Aimed a Depopulating Haiti?
Is there an International plan to depopulate and exterminate a large portion of Haiti's population?
ADS: The WHO Vaccine Conspiracy & Monkey Business
FDA ties pneumonia deaths to infant vaccine for diarrhea virus
Vaccinate Haiti?
U.S.AID Go Home!
The History of Thanksgiving
Contaminated Merck Vaccine Recalled in China

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CANADA TO PAY 100M TO JOIN HAITI RECOVERY TEAM

Reuters Photo | Hundreds of Thousands demonstrate on July 15, 2006, Aristide's birthday, demanding release of political prisoners, return of President Aristide and a stop to the coup d'etat oppressions

Canada, part of the cabal (France and the U.S. were also at the Ottawa Initiative) that planned, financed and executed the ouster of Aristide, and thus the demise of real Haitian democracy, plans to remain on the scene of their crimes. Canada is "buying" an influential seat on the Haiti "recovery" team.

The Ottawa Initiative was where Canadian Officials initiated the planning for the military ouster of Aristide

"OTTAWA — Canada is preparing to pay $100 million to join an exclusive new international club that would guide the rebuilding of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, The Canadian Press has learned.

That’s the price tag for a seat on the proposed Interim Haitian Recovery Commission that is expected to be one of the key announcements to be made this week at the New York international donors’ conference on Haiti.

“Canada has been a major partner and a major donor to Haiti in the past years, so we will be there,” said a senior government official. “Not sure of the structure, but Canada will play a major role.”

The new commission will be made up [of] representatives from more than a dozen donor countries, the Haitian government, the Organization of American States, the 15-country Caribbean bloc known as CARICOM, NGOs and international institutions. Its creation is one of two major announcements expected from Wednesday’s Haiti summit in New York, senior World Bank officials said."

The article emphasizes the lead role that Canada is "buying" from the World Bank for its 100M investment. The Canadians, along with France and the U.S. continue to exert a vise-like control over Haitian matters, with the U.S. having seized control on the ground by landing troops and controlling the Haitian airport. For Canada as well as other so-called "donor" countries, the will of the Haitian people are to be ignored per usual in deference to the West's supposed "expertise" on what is best for Haiti:

"The World Bank and other international actors are keen to see Canada play an active role in the decision-making commission. Haiti’s government estimates it will ultimately cost $11.5 billion to rebuild from the Jan. 12 quake that killed more than 200,000 people.

“I see the role of both sharing Canadian experience in a number of sectors but also technical assistance and also the decision making process,” Tsikata explained, noting that Canada has shown expertise in education, governance and judiciary programs."

The U.S., France and Canada, with the continuing support of the United Nations have literally broken Haiti, so they should no longer be so intimately involved in Haiti's sovereign affairs. An international tribunal should be convened to investigate and consequently, prosecuted them for their crimes against humanity in Haiti. Upon a determination of their guilt, these international "players" should be forced to pay restitution for their criminal interventions.

It is well-documented that interventions in Haiti affairs have invariably caused chaos, violence, rapes and deaths. The Lancet reported an estimated 8,000 deaths and 35,000 rapes in just Port-au-Prince, Haiti alone in the 22 month period following the U.S., France and Canada backed 2004 coup d'etat against the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The Lancet report can be viewed here (PDF). Victim's testimonies and photos can also be found at the Ezilidanto Witness Project. Before that the Bush Sr. U.S. regime backed the 1991 coup against Aristide which also resulted in many deaths and violence against the Haitian populace.

In the reconstruction effort, this cabal, along with the UN and the international banksters (who have held Haiti enslaved in a cycle of debt and dependency), should have only supporting roles that back the decisions of a democratically elected Haitian government -- elected with the full participation of Haiti's most popular party, Fanmi Lavalas.

Haitians must be in charge of and in leadership roles in the rebuilding of Haiti. And Fanmi Lavalas must be allowed to participate in any free and fair election--otherwise any elections held without their participation is neither free nor fair. Fanmi Lavalas was barred from postponed February elections. They are the so-called "die hards" (unfortunate term Boston.com!) who want the return of President Aristide, so that he may participate in the rebuilding effort. Haitians have participated in what some observers have counted as 50 protests in Haiti post the devastating earthquake. Most were to protest of the lack of aid, unequal and incompetent aid distribution, but many were to demand the return of President Aristide -- here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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This month Bill Clinton apologized for his support of US agricultural policies that forced Haitian farmers to compete with U.S. subsidized agribusiness and specifically rice from farmers from Clinton's home state of Arkansa. The policy resulted in the destruction of the rice farmers' livelihoods in Haiti to the tune of 830,000 rural jobs lost! See the Washington Post article: "With cheap food imports, Haiti can't feed itself."

Bill Clinton, Haiti does not need your apology, its too little, too late. What needs to happen is a "class action" lawsuit. The U.S. needs to pay restitution to Haiti. On the subject of restitution, France also, should be forced to pay the 21 billion it extorted from Haiti as payment for the "loss" of its enslaved colony. And the damages from the crimes committed by Canada and other international "players." should be assessed by a duly appointed international tribunal of justice.

Protesters Demand Sarkozy Pay Up & Return Aristide to Haiti

by Kevin Pina

Port au Prince, Haiti - HIP — Thousands of supporters of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide took to the streets on Wednesday as French president Nicolas Sarkozy toured the earthquake ravaged capital of Port au Prince. Holding pictures of the ousted president aloft they chanted for France to pay more then 21 billion dollars in restitution and reparations and to return Aristide as Sarkozy's helicopter landed near Haiti's quake damaged national palace. Their demands stem from a long held dispute over compensation a nascent Haiti was forced to pay French slave owners in exchange for recognition of their independence and France's role in ousting Aristide in 2004.

READ FULL ARTICLE: HaitiAction.net

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Protesters clash with police following rain in Haiti

by Kevin Pina

Port au Prince, Haiti - HIP — About one inch of rain fell on the capital of Port au Prince early this morning sparking angry protests that tied up traffic near the airport for nearly four hours.

At 4:30 am as the rain began to fall a collective wail could be heard rising from the makeshift camps of those left homeless due to a massive earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12. Cries of helplessness and misery quickly turned into shouts of anger and invectives against Haitian president Rene Preval as thousands then took to the streets in several spontaneous street demonstrations.

READ FULL ARTICLE: HaitiAction.net

Somali Pirates - The Other Side of the Story

A conversation with Somali Rapper Knaan about the Somali pirates

Music: When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag


[rough transcript]

Knaan (rapping): We should know about the pirates terrorize the oceans
To never know a simple day without a big commotion
It can't be healthy to live with such a steep emotion
And when I try and sleep, I see coffins closing

Knaan: The Pirate situation in Somalia, has been massive in the media. You know what I mean, New York Times, front page, that sort of thing, But, it's never really, it's so interesting to me that, it's never really discussed in the way Somali's discuss it.

So, whenever... I mean, because we are the issue that people are talking about. And whenever Somali's get together and talk about Pirates. Ah.. the Pirates scenario. That... we talk about them as though they're the coast guards of the country.

We don't talk about them as if they are like, this evil group that's disturbing European trade. Which we don't really care about too much. It's like... European trade is fine, as long as it doesn't... as long as we get respected in our waters. In our territories. Our territories and waters has not been respected by the international community for a very long time.

There's been mass illegal fishing from foreign vessels. That are coming into the country. And just taking the resources of the Somali people. But also, even more sinister, is that there's foreign vessels coming in and dumping nuclear toxic waste into our shores.

Interviewer: This is the other side of the story, this is what they don't tell you on CNN.

Knaan: They can't, because they would implicate a lot of their legitimate companies that exist here... are not so legitimate, when they go to places where illegitimate governments. You know, they start to behave... they lose their charm, when they get over there.

Interviewer: So, that is a very accurate description; so you are the coast guard. And this makes perfect sense. I mean, you know for a while I was concerned. Maybe I shouldn't be taking my luxury liner/boat over there. But, now I didn't realize that when they were driving by the horn of Africa passing near Somalia. It wasn't to show us your beautiful country. It was to dump the waste and then go back.

Knaan: Yeah. And it's incredible, how crazy that is to dump nuclear toxic waste on people's shores. Because especially, we're on the Indian Ocean and Somalia is the largest coastal running line in Africa. And so it's completely un-protectable this area. And so what they have been doing, is for a ling time; you know the mobsters that used to be in New York, in the fishing industry, a lot of those guys went into the nuclear toxic waste business. Which sometimes is legitimate, and sometimes very, very illegitimate. And so they've been dumping these containers.

The thing is, if you dump... there's ways to properly package this stuff and get rid of it and put it in the water. And if you do that, usually you do that in cold waters. But the Indian Ocean is warm water. Where it would have taken in the cold water for a container to open up and break apart over a thousand years. In Somalia, in the Indian Ocean it will take just about a hundred years to open up. So were looking and facing an environmental disaster affecting the entire region of eastern Africa. The home of... the world's birthplace basically.

That this could have major consequences on the environment and human lives for generations to come. And you mean to tell me that the US and the Europeans sending all their navy power to stop the pirates, that we see as stopping that criminal activity. That's kinda the problem.

Interviewer: We've been talking a lot here in the US about green jobs and a green economy. You know, I'll just toss this out here again... it seems like that's a pretty green act that the green movement should get behind. And I wonder if more people from the green movement who are running around asking that Japan stop harpooning the whales and other folks that are trying to save the polar bears, see saving the Somali coastline and all the resources there in the same light.

Knaan: Yeah, well. (laughing) It's very interesting. Because the fact is that this has gotten all the way up to the UN Security Council. It's gotten high up. This issue of Somali... the nuclear toxic waste being dumped in Somalia. And then completely vetoed by the major powers. And forgotten about. And kinda just shoved under a rock.

Interviewer: Which major powers? Can you name a couple, so we can keep them on tap?

Knaan: I think France and the US both had interest in vetoing this issue. And of course France is in the waters. The navy is there. I mean, It's a major problem.

I think, what's really the sad thing about Somalia and Africa in general. When it comes to these kinds of progressive movements you have here in the West and in the US. Such as the green movement and the environmental culture and so on. Is once it's Black, green doesn't really matter so much any more.

Interviewer: ...How distorting the news has been, to make it seem like there were a bunch of uncontrolled barbarians running around, you know, just attacking luxury liners and I guess they didn't tell the story. That you all weren't killing people. You were holding them... and you know basically...

Knaan: Not one death. Not one death caused by these Pirates. Not one injury. In fact, they have such rules, such strict rules, guidelines, these Pirate's groups. If you verbally assault a captain, that there is a percentage cut off your pay. Your future pay. And so they are very, very well behaved. And they know what they are doing. They are very professional. They went out there initially to protect us.

Democracy Now! has analysis of the situation on their site.

Analysis: Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping by Western Ships off Somali Coast

President Obama vowed an international crackdown to halt piracy off the coast of Somalia Monday soon after the freeing of US cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since last Wednesday. While the pirates story has dominated the corporate media, there has been little to no discussion of the root causes driving piracy. We speak with consultant and analyst Mohamed Abshir Waldo. In January, he wrote a paper titled “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other?” [includes rush transcript]