WSF Activists Want Brazil's and UN's Troops Out of Haiti
Written by Spensy Pimentel
Monday, 30 January 2006
The presence of the United Nations (UN) Peace Forces, commanded by Brazil, in Haiti is the object of some of the first protests planned for 2006 by organizations participating in the World Assembly of Social Movements, an event that is part of the 6th World Social Forum (WSF).
The movements are calling for demonstrations on February 15, when the UN is scheduled to vote on a resolution to extend the mandate of the MINUSTAH (the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti).
Another mobilization is planned for March 29, the anniversary of the Haitian Constitution. The purpose of Haitian Solidarity Day is to demand the cancellation of the country's foreign debt, which is considered unjust and illegitimate.
According to Beverly Keene of the Southern Jubilee network, Haiti spent US$ 80 million on its debt in 2005 alone.
"It's more than they were able to invest in health and education," she pointed out. The Haitian debt is also the object of permanent mobilization.
The campaign to cancel Haiti's debt is part of a broader mobilization on behalf of poor countries in similar straits all over the world.
ONU MINUSTAH OUT OF HAITI_ STOP THE HOLOCAUST OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE written by Black United World,
January 18, 2007
UN : MINUSTAH - OUT OF HAITI
SAY NO TO THE HAITIAN GENOCIDE BY THE UN SOLDIERS SAY NO TO THE HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE HAITIAN PEOPLE!
January 1st 1804, Haiti officially declared its independence. By this act, the Haitians became the first free Black people, the first sovereign Black nation and the first Black country of the African Diaspora since the Black Holocaust, the one which began at the end of the XVth century by the Europeans.
In 2004, while the Haitians were commemorating their bicentenary of independence, the former colonial powers, their progeny and sidekicks have decided to destabilize and to invade Haiti under the cover of the United Nations. As a matter of fact, on February 29th 2004, they kidnapped democratically elected Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and deported him on a French military base in Central African Republic.
Following the February 29th coup, the United Nations sent a stabilization force in Haiti called the MINUSTAH. Since then, under the pretext of waging war against bandits, the UN soldiers looter, humiliate, persecute, torture, rape and kill children, youths, elderly, women, men of the most impoverished neighborhoods, most particularly in Cite Soleil, of this sovereign nation of the Caribbean; which also a member of the UN.
Those crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the UN soldiers are even more repugnant and far more revolting when we know in what circumstances this organization was created. Let us remind that it was at the end of the second great European war, also known as the second world war, and the horror of the Nazis’ concentration camps with the holocaust of millions of Gypsies, of Blacks and of Caucasian European Jews by the Nazis that this organization was created in order to prevent the world from such atrocities. It was imbued by these humanistic and humanitarian wishes that Haiti acceded to the UN making it one of the founding its members.
Nonetheless, it is this same organization that is now persecuting, raping and mass murdering the most improvised Haitians. For instance, on July 6th 2005, December 16th, December 22nd, and December 28th 2006 the UN soldiers entered at Cite Soleil and massacred infants, children, pregnant women, men and elderly. After being previously demonized and targeted as bandits.
Moreover, trough a great media propaganda they make us believe that the UN soldiers are in Haiti to maintain peace and order. That’s false! Besides the massacres, the MINUSTAH more acting as a destabilizing force in the country.
According the United States Government Accountability Office, the cost of the UN is Haiti is about 428 $ millions per year. A complete aberration considering the role that this organization is playing in Haiti.
The mandate of UN is due for renewal on February 15th 2007. We can already predict a wave of massacres. Faithful to their established patterns, the UN soldiers will commit mass murders under the pretext of waging war against bandits in order to maintain their occupation of Haiti. So doing, it will guarantee the renewal of the working contracts of all UN employees both civil and military as well as securing their salaries.
Humanity cannot accept this macabre plan. We cannot agree with the fact that the UN soldiers are systematically kill the Haitians in order to keep their jobs.
We demand an immediate STOP to the looter, the persecution, the torture, the rape and the murdering of the most improvised Haitians.
We demand respect of the Haitian’s sovereignty. We demand respect of Haiti’s independence.
We demand a STOP to the genocide and holocaust of the Haitian people.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
UN : MINUSTAH - OUT OF HAITI
SAY NO TO THE HAITIAN GENOCIDE BY THE UN SOLDIERS
SAY NO TO THE HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE HAITIAN PEOPLE!
January 1st 1804, Haiti officially declared its independence. By this act, the Haitians became the first free Black people, the first sovereign Black nation and the first Black country of the African Diaspora since the Black Holocaust, the one which began at the end of the XVth century by the Europeans.
In 2004, while the Haitians were commemorating their bicentenary of independence, the former colonial powers, their progeny and sidekicks have decided to destabilize and to invade Haiti under the cover of the United Nations. As a matter of fact, on February 29th 2004, they kidnapped democratically elected Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and deported him on a French military base in Central African Republic.
Following the February 29th coup, the United Nations sent a stabilization force in Haiti called the MINUSTAH. Since then, under the pretext of waging war against bandits, the UN soldiers looter, humiliate, persecute, torture, rape and kill children, youths, elderly, women, men of the most impoverished neighborhoods, most particularly in Cite Soleil, of this sovereign nation of the Caribbean; which also a member of the UN.
Those crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the UN soldiers are even more repugnant and far more revolting when we know in what circumstances this organization was created. Let us remind that it was at the end of the second great European war, also known as the second world war, and the horror of the Nazis’ concentration camps with the holocaust of millions of Gypsies, of Blacks and of Caucasian European Jews by the Nazis that this organization was created in order to prevent the world from such atrocities. It was imbued by these humanistic and humanitarian wishes that Haiti acceded to the UN making it one of the founding its members.
Nonetheless, it is this same organization that is now persecuting, raping and mass murdering the most improvised Haitians. For instance, on July 6th 2005, December 16th, December 22nd, and December 28th 2006 the UN soldiers entered at Cite Soleil and massacred infants, children, pregnant women, men and elderly. After being previously demonized and targeted as bandits.
Moreover, trough a great media propaganda they make us believe that the UN soldiers are in Haiti to maintain peace and order. That’s false! Besides the massacres, the MINUSTAH more acting as a destabilizing force in the country.
According the United States Government Accountability Office, the cost of the UN is Haiti is about 428 $ millions per year. A complete aberration considering the role that this organization is playing in Haiti.
The mandate of UN is due for renewal on February 15th 2007. We can already predict a wave of massacres. Faithful to their established patterns, the UN soldiers will commit mass murders under the pretext of waging war against bandits in order to maintain their occupation of Haiti. So doing, it will guarantee the renewal of the working contracts of all UN employees both civil and military as well as securing their salaries.
Humanity cannot accept this macabre plan. We cannot agree with the fact that the UN soldiers are systematically kill the Haitians in order to keep their jobs.
We demand an immediate STOP to the looter, the persecution, the torture, the rape and the murdering of the most improvised Haitians.
We demand respect of the Haitian’s sovereignty.
We demand respect of Haiti’s independence.
We demand a STOP to the genocide and holocaust of the Haitian people.
UN-MINUSTHA : GET OUT OF HAITI.
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