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Letter supporting
HLLN's Haiti Resolution
Dear _________
I write to request that our government
stop supporting the reign of terror in Haiti and use all diplomatic
efforts to support the democratically elected President of Haiti,
return of all the exiles including President Aristide, end the
defacto protectorate and UN repression of the people of Haiti.
I urge you to take all steps to
help:
Show respect for Haiti's sovereignty,
right to self-determination, respect for the one-person-one-vote-principle,
support for the Feb. 7th vote and support the return back to
Haiti of President Aristide and all those exiled by the bloody
Feb. 29th coup d'etat;
Stop the U.N. and Haitian police
killing of Lavalas supporters and end the UN occupation and
repression. Haiti needs engineers, agronomists, technicians
to build infrastructures, community policing to service the
people, tractors not armored tanks, not repressive armies, military
operations, war guns or heavy weaponry. The UN victims from
Site Soley and all the victims of the 2004 coup d'etat must
be accorded justice, including Dred Wilme, Sonia Romelus, her
infant sons Nelson and Stanley and all the victims of the UN
troops since their landing in Haiti;
Release all the political prisoners
in Haiti;
Disarm, prosecute and bring
the death squads, convicted killers and thugs to justice, not
reintegrating the military into the civilian police force or
rewarding these human rights violators with positions of authority
over the people they are abusing.
Give temporary asylum to the
fleeing Haitian refugees, and,
Support the OAS/CARICOM/African
Union and Congressional Black Caucus' request for an international
investigation into the role the foreign powers of the United
States, France and Canada into the Feb. 29, 2004 Coup d'etat
in Haiti.
Sincerely,
Name______________
Address_____________
E-mail/phone number_________
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The Haitian
Lawyers Leadership Network's Appeal for international support
on the People of Haiti's right to
self-respect, self-determination and self-defense
We Haitian democracy activists
have taken on ourselves a great task. The Haitian people have
been robbed again, not only of the wealth of our country, and
not only of the lives and livelihoods of our countrymen, but of
our sense of self-determination.
The very essence of being Haitian is the connection to those freedom
fighters of the revolution who would not lie down and obey the
men who claimed to be their masters. Today, Haiti is being ruled
by a regime that was selected by foreign powers. The legitimate
officials are in exile, in hiding, or in captivity.
All around, voices are telling us to suffer this indignity, to
give up on our quest for self-governance, that somehow we are
unfit to choose our own leaders or our own style of governance.
We utterly reject this pattern of thought. It is the mental slavery
from which Bob Marley calls us to emancipate ourselves. For the
average Haitian "This Song of Freedom" is truly all
we have ever had. And now they want to take that too.
It is with this sense of insistence and urgency that we set forth
our grievances and define our terms for reconciliation in the
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Haiti Resolution. We ask that all Haitian
democracy activists circulate this resolution, its
updates, and address the issues and demands of the
resolution (its
updates) to their own governments, and to the United
Nations, which has the responsibility for protecting the right
of self-determination. But most of all, we ask all solidarity
groups who wish to sincerely help Haitians, to not just send their
appeals to the UN, the US-installed government, the coup d'etat
governments or Haiti Democracy Project's Timothy M. Carney. You're
better off telling your next door neighbor about what they are
not seeing on the conventional media about Haiti then simply telling
the UN, US, Candadian officials (et al) what they already know
and wish to hide behind the headlines. Kindly send appeals and
background info to the MEDIA. Flood the U.S. local, national and
international media with your concerns about the abuse, occupation,
genocide and re-enslavement of the people of Haiti.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/contactinformation/local-national-media.html
Remember letters of appeals to the media is a start, but political
action, economic boycott and systemic and consistent public
censure/exposure
are essentially what pro-democracy Haitians are asking from solidarity
groups. Please also do this by supporting the yearly
events of the
FreeHaitiMovement,
sponsoring a "To
Tell The Truth About Haiti Forum, support our 7
Men Anpil Chay Pa Lou campaigns and boycotts.
The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Haiti Resolution:
1. Demand respect for the Feb. 7, 2006 presidential vote and the
return of constitutional rule to Haiti, including return of all
those in exiled because of the bloody Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat,
including, President Jean Bertrand Aristide, as mandated by Haiti's
Constitution. Stop further pressures from the international community
and mass media that would negate the Feb. 7, 2006 people's mandate
by vilifying President Rene Preval or pressuring his government
and team into International Financial Institution (IFIs) compromises
and giving seats, power or unmerited positions to the losers of
the Feb. 7th elections (See Protect
the Feb. 7th vote -2006 update);
2. Condemn the killings, illegal imprisonment and confiscation
of the property of supporters of Haiti's Aristide/Neptune constitutional
government and insist that all contracts entered into by Haiti's
illegitimate "interim government" do not bind a duly
elected president of Haiti or the people of Haiti, who never submitted
to the Boca Raton regime's persecutions or the internationally-supported
persecution of its thugs and murderers from sectors in their police
force, from the paramilitaries, (Lame timanchet), gangs and former
soldiers;
3. Insist on the immediate release of all political prisoners
in Haitian jails, including Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, Jacques
Mathelier and other constitutional government officials still
imprisoned and the immediate and unconditional release of Paul
Raymond, folk singer-activist Sò Anne, musician and grassroots
activist, Yvon “Zap Zap” Antoine and the thousands
of others suffering in Haiti's inhuman prisons merely for expressing
their political opinions or because they were coordinating literacy,
cultural and/or feeding programs to help the disenfranchised Haitian
masses.
4. Insist on the disarmament of the thugs, death squad leaders
and convicted human rights violators and their prosecution for
all crimes committed during and after the attack on Haiti's elected
government and support the rebuilding of Haiti's police force,
ensuring that it excludes anyone who helped to overthrow the democratically
elected government or who participated in other human rights violations;
5. Support the equal application
of the U.N.'s Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration program
to the people in the poor neighborhoods of Haiti such as Bel Air,
Site Soley, Site De Dye, Solino, Gran Ravin, Martisan, et al,
but with Haitian-led and designed social programs and without
remobilizing the former military or reconstituting well known
human rights violators or coup detat enforcers into the police
force.
6. Support the demilitarization of the Haitian police and UN peacekeepers,
promoting not any army on Haitian soil, foreign or domestic, but
community-based policing; community-focused U.N. and Haitian police
work and training and the banning of U.N. tanks, heavy weapons,
equipments and all small arms exports to Haiti. Haiti needs engineers,
agronomists, technicians to build infrastructures, community policing
to service the people, tractors not armored tanks, not repressive
armies, military operations, war guns or heavy weaponry. The UN
victims from Site Soley and all the victims of the 2004 coup d'etat
must be accorded justice, including Sonia Romelus, her infant
sons Nelson and Stanley and all the victims of the UN troops since
their landing in Haiti;
5. Stop the indefinite detention and automatic repatriation of
Haitian refugees and immediately grant Temporary Protected Status
to all Haitian refugees presently in the United States until democracy
is restored to Haiti; and
6. Support the calls by the OAS, CARICOM and the African Union
for an investigation into the circumstances of President Aristide's
removal. Support the enactment of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's
T.R.U.T.H Act which calls for U.S. Congressional investigation
of the forcible removal of the democratically elected President
and government of Haiti. Support the call by the Haitian Lawyers
Leadership Network (HLLN) for investigation into the role of UN/MINUSTHA,
OAS, IFES, NED, Haiti Democracy Project (HDP), US Embassy, Group
184, CEP and the de facto authorities, et al, in electoral fraud
to dilute*
the Feb. 7, 2006 people's vote, including HLLN's call
to investigate the further electoral fraud committed by these
authorities in the second (and third) Legislative rounds in order
to strip Haiti of its sovereignty and deny the masses, who have
been disenfranchised for more than 200 years, a voice in their
own country and its government activities. |
