Haiti: outrageous injustice

And news blackout


Aspects of actions by the UN mission in Haiti suggest complicity with the clear US desire to put down the forces of Lavalas, the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Violent outbreaks and the hunger strike by constitutional Prime Minister Yvon Neptune reveal the cracks in the false propaganda front erected by the US and its UN partners in Haiti, Canada, France, and Brazil. Neptune, now near death, has been jailed for nearly a year on trumped-up charges that have not even been formally filed.

But Democracy Now! and Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio have been on the truth of the story since the kidnapping of the democratically-elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in a US-backed coup on February 29, 2004. The widely-reported notion that Aristide left voluntarily is US-government-created disinformation, pure and simple.

Aristide himself makes this very clear. Please listen to Amy Goodman's extensive interview with Aristide broadcast today on Democracy Now!.

All US readers: Please contact your Congresspeople now and demand that they join Congresswoman Maxine Waters in demanding the truth about the coup and an end to US interfence in the return of Aristide to Haiti.

And get yourself informed! The place to go are the radio sources mentioned above, including the excellent, very extensive reports from Haiti by Flashpoints correspondent Kevin Pina. Written transcripts of many of these are available here from ZNet.