Re: [Marxism] Instability of installed regime presses France-US to take over

[Greg Dunkel <gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Welch, who is a Haiti support activists ans a member of the San
Francisco Central Labor Council, led a small delegation to the CTH
(Confederation des traivailleurs haitiens) congress in Haiti early in July.

He was in Port-au-Prince when the MINUSTAH attack took place and a
member of his delegation, Seth Donnelly, who belongs to the California
Teachers Association, went to Cite Soleil 24 hours after the attack took
place.

According to Welch, who was interviewed on WBAI's Haiti hour Saturday
July 9, Seth counted 23 bodies lying in pools of blood in the streets of
Cite Soleil.  Based on  interviews with scores of eyewitnesses, Welch
puts the number of victims at 50  -- some of them were removed and taken
to morgues before Seth started counting.

Actively looking for press coverage on this incident, I found one AP
accounjt of 440 words, a UPI story of 70 words or so, 6 or 7 briefs in
the North American press and a longer article, still based on the lies
the UN put out in Britain's The Independent.

Given that this massacre occured a few hours before the bombing in
London, and given that the Haitian National Police, who operate under UN
control, carried out another one in another poor section of
Port-au-Prince on Friday,  it is clear that the lack of media attention
to Haiti, compared to the flood of information about London, reflects
the importance the media puts on lost of life in Haiti versus similar
losses in London.

As for the article Fred forwarded, I generally agreed with it, but I
would have used a different headline, say "Mass resistance to the
installed regime in Haiti presses US-France-Canada to take over."  The
imperialists will let a country fall about, eg Somalia, but they don't
want to see the masses intervening to overturn a government they installed.

It is good to acknowledge the role of France and the US, but Canada was
also involved.

/greg

Fred Feldman wrote:

> ...
>
> Haiti's poor neighborhoods, such as Cite Soleil, have become virtual
> prisons for their residents. UN peacekeepers stormed into Cite Soleil on
> July 6, 2005, killing two supporters of former President Aristide.
> According to Haiti Police Chief Leon Charles, longtime well-known
> Aristide supporter and community activist Emmanuel Wilme, known as "Dred
> Wilme," was killed during several hours of gunfights between the 350
> peacekeepers and Aristide supporters.
>
> Since the forced departure of Aristide from office last year, Dred Wilme
> had repeatedly denounced the interim government of Prime Minister Gerard
> Latortue for killing Aristide supporters. He also accused Andy Apaid, a
> business leader who prominently supported the anti-Aristide rebels, of
> hiring known criminals to murder residents of Cite Soleil. He has also
> accused MINUSTAH of neglecting its peacekeeping mission and behaving
> more like an occupation force.

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