The Truth About Haiti – Kidnapped Presidents, Puppets & George Bush, Part II: UN Massacre

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 in Alphabet Agencies & Operations, Featured Articles, Political Issues

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Hayden’s Note:

With all the focus on Haiti due to the earthquake, I’ve decided to show the recent political history of Haiti and allow you to understand how much we, as America, have our hands entrenched in the politics, the real estate and the potential of Haiti.  I’ve taken out several of the more graphic images to maintain an all ages friendly environment here, but you can click on the link below to get to the original story.

theWW.cc - U.N. Troops Accused of July 6th Massacre in Haiti’s Cite Soleil
Interview with Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Progres, speaking with Scott Harris of Between the Lines

On the morning of July 6, more than 350 United Nations peacekeeping troops deployed in Haiti raided the densely populated Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil. A U.N. spokesperson Col. Eloufi Boulbars stated that the operation was aimed at armed gangs that they say are responsible for rampant violence in the Haitian capital. But residents of the poor neighborhood, many of whom are staunch supporters of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, say that U.N. troops backed by tanks and helicopter shot indiscriminately killing at least 23 and as many as 60 civilians.

U.N officials reported only five killed.
Among those slain in the raid was Emmanuel “Dread” Wilme, known as a pro-Aristide community leader in Cite Soleil and branded a dangerous gang leader by the U.S.-installed interim Haitian government and the U.N. Haiti has been plagued by violence and instability since an armed rebellion (consisting of US trained and led former soldiers) by former Haitian soldiers toppled Aristide’s government in February 2004. Aristide, now in exile in South Africa, maintains that he was kidnapped and forced to leave Haiti as Washington and Paris orchestrated the coup against him. The 7,400-member U.N. peacekeeping force made up of soldiers from Brazil, Peru, Jordan and Uruguay is preparing for presidential, parliamentary and local elections in October and December. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Kim Ives, an editor with the newspaper Haiti Progres, who describes the deadly July 6 attack by U.N. soldiers on Cite Soleil and the prospects for free and fair elections later this year.

Kim Ives:   It was one of the most horrific massacres since the coup began on February 29th 2004 when U.S. special forces soldiers flew into Haiti on an unmarked jet as they do – we are learning more and more about that these days, special forces going kidnapping and snatching people off the streets.

UN troops and Haitian man lying dead on the floor. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas. For centuries an elite backed by the US has ruled Haiti placing huge education, class and economic restrictions on the masses. More than half of Haitians live below the extreme poverty line of $1 per day. Less than 40 percent of those in the capital Port-au-Prince and other cities have running water according to U.N. Figures released in December 2006. Photo: www.haitiprogres.com

But they went into Haiti and the snatched the President out of his home, surrounded the place with laser sighted rifles and machine guns and took him to the airport and flew him out to Africa.

There have been quite a few massacres since that time but the one that occurred on the 6th of July at Cite Soleil stands up for two reasons.

1. Sixty people were killed in the space of four to five hours by a total assault of 350 troops, two helicopter gunships, tanks firing on homes. This was an assault on a civilian population.
2. It was carried out only by the United Nations.   There weren’t even using the Haitian police who they have been backing up over these past months. They carried out the operation themselves. So this is really a new stage in the U.N. taking control of the military occupation of Haiti, not even using Haitian proxies. Another irony was that this happened on the same day as the London bombings. I really think that the parallels are pretty striking.   We see how many miles of print and video tape have been spent on that and Haiti, this is considered a non-story when sixty people are killed.

Scott Harris:   Now that figure of sixty people, has that figure of the death toll on July 6th been admitted to or corroborated by the United Nations?

Kim Ives:   No! The United Nations claim that five or six people were killed. We have pictures in Haiti Progres this week on the cover for example of a woman called Sonia Romelus who was a twenty-two year old mother of a child, Nelson Romelus. The UN troops came into her home, threw a smoke grenade in, started firing, one of the bullets went right through her, killed her and killed her one-year-old infant in her arms. And they shot her four-year-old son, Stanley Romelus in the head. This would be three of the six bandits the UN claimed were killed.   Unfortunately for the UN there was a labor delegation that was on hand there, which went in and video taped the carnage that took place. They went in and video taped the churches and the schools and the tin and cardboard shacks that were riddled with machine gun bullets. This was a total assault on a community, which has been assaulted and besieged in the past five six months on repeated occasions. So the UN is trying to talk it down and cover it up, but the fact is we’ve got the testimony.   We have the video tape.   We have the proof that there was a massacre that took place that day.
 
Scott Harris:   What’s been the response in Haiti.   I know hundreds if not thousands came to the funeral of some of those killed by the July 6 attack of UN forces.   But are there calls for investigations both inside and outside Haiti in response to what occurred on July 6th?  
 
Kim Ives:   There is a major effort now to put together an international tribunal on Haiti, which will be held in Washington on the 23rd of September.   This will be a tribunal where the evidence of these massacres, of the US role in the coup will be forthcoming.   This will be the night before the big September 24th demonstration in Washington. We want to prepare a dossier which can go to the International Criminal Court, who can then put warrants out for these UN officials who are ordering these massacres. Tell us a little about the upcoming elections and the view of the Lavalas Family Party and the participation. At this point of the 4.5 million eligible voters, something less than 4% have obtained their electoral card. The deadlines are hurdling at the UN occupation forces and the National Popular Party along with a number of Lavalas Family base organizations have distributed a flyer nationwide encouraging people not to go take what they call this poison electoral card, saying that this would be playing into the hands of the people who did the February 29th kidnapping.   That they would have an election which would be totally rigged by the computers.

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