N.B.: Antoine Izmery is the man who made public the fact that Jimmy Carter asked the democratically-elected president of Haiti (Aristide) to give up the presidency to the U.S.and oligarchy-backed candidate (Bazin) in 1990, prior to the announcement of election results.
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While reading through Metropole and HaitiPressNetwork today, I noticed a couple of articles criticizing some declarations government officials made recently concerning a set of immigrants they believe to be involved in illegal activities in Haiti.
While, I agree that some of the comments in question were ill-framed - if utteredd as reported in Haiti's right wing press, the truly strange thing is that some people seem to be attempting to distort the truth by making reference to Antoine Izmery to show how a particular immigrant community may have also stood for "democracy" in Haiti.
Yet, it is a well known fact that the highly respected Haitian of Palestinian decent (Izmery) was literaly HATED by most of Haiti?s small but enriched foreign immigrant community. Some of these folks, now leading the Initiative Societé Civile, were formerly known as the MRE (Morally Repugnant Elite) and they hated Izmery, precisely because he always stood up against their racially-based, CIA-linked, criminal activities ? not the least of which was: financing the bloody 1991 coup d?état.
In fact, in a brief presentation of Katharine Kean?s film featuring the life and assassination of Antoine Izmery, one reads: ?Rezistans suggests that Izmery, like thousands of other Haitians, is the victim of a brutal oligarchy that conducts its reign of terror with the collusion of operatives from the U.S. government.?
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArt...ArticleID=1060
Clearly, those who have been to Haiti know for a FACT that African-Haitians are not xenophobic. We have never been and never shall be. Our popular culture, our social environment are very counter-xenophobic. Antoine Izmery understood and appreciated this fact. That?s why his love and respect for the Haitian people was always met in kind. No sound Haitian would tell you Izmery was not Haitian. Yet, they will tell you fair and square that many of the fools who are trying to overthrow the current government are anti-Haitian foreigners. Why? Because they behave so!
If today some of these foreign nationals in Haiti feel ?sispèk tankou chen ki pete nan legliz?, it is because of what they know themselves to be involved in ? individually and as gang members, not because Haitians have shown Xenophobia towards them in any shape or form. Psychologists call this kind of occurrence ?projection?. South African and Zimbabwean Boers lived and expressed a similar kind of delusional behaviour post the Rodhesia and Apartheid eras. These culprits see in their victims? eyes the brutes that they themselves have been for too long. Apparently, Michael Moore also describes a similar phenomenon in his much acclaimed ?Bowling for Columbine?. "yo sispèk" would certainly be an appropriate theme for this year?s carnival!
Concerning the outrageous murder of Antoine Izmery, much gratitude and respect are due to the brave souls (Haitian and foreign, black, white and other) who fought HARD and finally obtained some ?justice?, in that file.
Indeed we were elated to learn from
http://haitisupport.gn.apc.org/Cadavre.htm that ?On March 25, 2002 (nearly 10 years after the Izmery murders) the U.S. immigration authorities finally deported to Haiti the former Haitian Army captain, Jackson Joanis, who faces charges related to his role in the 1993 murder of Antoine Izmery??
?In the early 1990s, Jackson Joanis was the head of the notorious Anti-Gang police department ?In its 1998-99 annual report, the Geopolitical Drug Watch organisation, claimed that Joanis played a key role in protecting those who set up drug-running operations in Haiti during the 1991-94 coup years. The report says that Fernando Burgos Martinez, a major Colombian drug baron linked to the Cali cartel, ran his operations in conjunction with Haitian businessmen from the capital's largest casino, El Rancho.?
Among the FEW true friends of Haiti, to whom we shall always be indebted, we salute Mr. Brian Concannon and his team of American and Haitian lawyers who were instrumental to the success of the Raboteau massacre trial and we also salute a brave politician and justice militant, bother John Conyers of the honorable U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, who declared :
"The years of the military government were a sad episode in Haiti's noble history, and I will always remember the murder of Antoine Izmery as one of the most tragic chapters. It is especially upsetting to me that families and friends are still crying out for justice. I have resolved to ensure that the U.S. Government is doing everything it can to advance accountability for victims of the coup in Haiti. Haiti deserves peace, prosperity, and a final reconciliation."
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/hai.../msg00614.html
Indeed brother Conyers PEACE WITH JUSTICE ! we demand no more, we shall settle for no less. Let there be no more CIA coups in Haiti, as the Washington Post warned there may be still as recently as Feb 2, 2001:
« The most determined of these men, with a promise of anonymity, freely express their desire to see the U.S. military intervene once again, this time to get rid of Aristide and rebuild the disbanded Haitian army. "That would be the cleanest solution," said one opposition party leader. Failing that, they say, the CIA should train and equip Haitian officers exiled in the neighboring Dominican Republic so they could stage a comeback themselves.» Haiti Torn by Hope and Hatred As Aristide Returns to Power by Edward Cody (Washington Post, February 2, 2001)
THE FACTS - NO RETHORIC, THE FACTS MAAM!
AMANDLA!
Jafrikayiti
«Haiti needs help, not unmerited manipulation. »
Larry Birns and Michael Marx McCarthy Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs
http://www.i-port.net/sd-in-j/
N.B.: I posted this on the
www.oplpeople.com web site and i invite you to go there to see how quick they are to remove anything that doesn't suit their KKK propaganda.
Now, imagine what would happen to freedom of speech, if these fools got back power in Haiti?
Think people think!
It is not about Lavalas Vs Convergence. It is about letting the Haitian PEOPLE have MAJORITY RULE FINALLY !