UN Peacekeeping Forces In Haiti

UN Peacekeepers Mount Anti-gang Operations in Haiti’s capital

"United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti carried out several search and security operations over the weekend against gang members in various districts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and its surroundings, the UN mission there has reported."

UN Peacekeepers Kill Four, Arrest 33 In New Anti-gang Operation In Port-au-Prince

"200 United Nations peacekeepers waged an eight-hour gun battle yesterday with heavily armed men who attacked them when they were checking a barricade under construction."

UN Peacekeepers Mount New Anti-gang Operations

"Continuing their anti-gang operations in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, United Nations peacekeepers launched another raid in the Cité Militaire area yesterday after intense firing during the night sowed panic among residents."

[edited to add] The IMF needs to stop ramming structural adjustment programs down the throats of the Haitian people. Not that I'm holding my breath.

[ 18 November 2005: Message edited by: Left Turn ]

Do you have any good websites for the situation in Haiti.

I am not full aware for the situation and I am trying to better understand what the problem is.

Option Zero in Haiti

Human rights reports:
Quixote center- March 04

Center for the study of human rights report - nov 04

[Square brackets cont'd: Aristide was losing support, but all that can be said about his election was that the turnout was low. Having been forced to introduce some counter-productive neo-liberal reforms, and then presiding over the country in the absence of foreign aid, Aristide's administration became widely criticized and thus defensive. But he was still the legitimately elected president. Whenever I have pressed someone who restates claims about Aristide becoming a dictator, or that he was involved with the drug trade, I receive only the flimsiest of circumstantial charges or absolute silence.]

UN forces are being used to decimate Aristide/Lavalas supporters in Port au Prince until such a time as Canadian police trainers can get a domestic Haitian terror force up and running. It is crucial for the US, Canada, and France to wipe out Lavalas in time for an election to legitimate whatever torturing drug-dealing kleptocrat administration we're supporting.

This paragraph (and the comments of Warren and Phinney) struck me:

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Canada’s Haiti policy also shows us how deeply-set racist perceptions of other (non-white) countries can be effectively mobilized to advance this concept. The established view of Haiti’s (formerly enslaved, extremely poor, African) population – as “incapable of self-government” – was renewed and refreshed. When Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren lamented on the eve of the coup that Haiti had failed to create “a people who are susceptible to self-government,” it elicited no particular notice. His racism was echoed more recently by Liberal MP Beth Phinney, who asked during a June 14 Foreign Affairs committee hearing: “How can you change the will of the people [of Haiti] to want to be able to govern themselves?” Such repugnant views require total ignorance of Haitian history, during which the population liberated itself from slavery, occupation and dictatorship, and then managed to democratically elect a president (three times!) that the US government overtly opposed. If the people of Haiti have proven one thing in their tragic history, it is their burning desire – and their capacity – to “govern themselves.”

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