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Military occupation of Haiti : for what purpose ?

Monday 1 February 2010

Military occupation of Haiti, for what purpose :

to fight against the risk of an earthquake? Yes! ! The social earthquake!

The U.S., Canada, Brazil, France, ... invaded Haiti militarily with the pretext of the earthquake. But it is neither the rescue workers, or doctors, or food that landed heavily in the island ravaged but trained troops to punish, kill, terrorize people. This means that these powers are not afraid in the first hunger, epidemics, nor do they feared the first earthquake and not preoccupied first possible rescues in collapsed houses. If they blocked the airport with the dispatch of 30,000 soldiers, it was not to fight against petty thieves in shops or secure shipments of food!

These great states have been affected by the fate of this unhappy people? Certainly not! They saw an opportunity to end the risk of the revolutionaries who had overthrown Island Baby Doc and his Macoutes, who rebelled against the military coups like Lafontant in 1991, who had to resign his army, which has not accepted the occupation troops of the UN and the American and French troops, who rebelled against hunger in 2008 and during the earthquake, began to organize itself and also to revolt. Port-au-Prince has been known for events with cries of "food and aid, not soldiers," and there were riots, barricades, and even an attempted insurgency group that had launched the sound of a tsunami. That is why major powers fear as the Haitian working people they are to supervise military.

One can read in the press: "Nelson Jobin, Brazilian Minister of Defense, back in Brazil, spoke of" the risk of riots. "This is not looting of" Carrefour Carrefour, where local resident Pauline Bonaparte which was, as Jamel, badly damaged by the earthquake, the concerns that motivate the head of the Italian Civil Protection and sending massive military reinforcements to Haiti. It is the prospect of a general insurrection in a country now without state infrastructure other than that try to be great nations and the UN, which is feared. "

The first reaction of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Kouchner, just hours after the disaster, when thousands of Haitians are buried under the ruins that are already dead by the tens of thousands homeless by million is "we must preserve order, stop looting and ensure the properties’!
And, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Celso Amorim adds: "It is clear that this tragedy requires special attention regarding the order and security. D’autant plus que les prisons ont été détruites » (dans "O Estado" du 14 janvier) Especially since the prisons were destroyed "(in" O Estado ", 14 January)

Asked on the Today Show for NBC, the American ambassador in Port-au-Prince, Kenneth Merten said that "U.S. troops intervened in the case where neither the Haitian police or peacekeepers could security ".

They want to rehire the Haitian military, resigned since 1995, the Haitian army was disbanded.
They will completely rebuild the army and the Haitian police.
And that, they say, the greatest urgency.
And why?
Because of years of revolt had already partially demolished the bourgeois state, discredited by its atrocities in the service of the ruling classes, at the time but after Duvalier.
Because the Haitian army was then revealed as rotten as the Duvalier dictatorship.

The U.S., Brazil or Canada will therefore provide the army of occupation until they rebuild the oppressive state.
That is the main "international aid" until the funds collected as usual landing mostly in the hands of the ringleaders of the Haitian bourgeoisie and military leaders of the Haitian police!

And do not forget that the rebuilding of a country must first refer to companies in rich countries that help. During the World Economic Forum (WEF) held as every year in Davos, Switzerland, Mr. Clinton’s special envoy for Haiti, the UN has called on entrepreneurs to invest in the country by stating that the investment in Haiti must be seen as "an opportunity to do business" .... This humanitarian profit is the real purpose and workers would really be suspicious when the operation Obama called "Clinton-Bush", named after the two U.S. presidents who have made war on the people of Haiti in the past when he rebelled.

We have just witnessed, ostensibly to deal with the consequences of an earthquake, landed in Haiti to 30,000 armed soldiers, the U.S., France, Brazil ..., an event whose meaning escapes unfortunately most workers, victims of media propaganda on a large scale. Everything has been done to make them believe that the world was speaking against the earthquake to help "a victim of unfortunate people a natural disaster, once again suffered a sad fate."! They landed arms and ammunition and some food and care ....

How to explain that the small nation of Haiti makes such fear to the great powers, so that they will send military armadas armed to the teeth with black berets U.S. paratroopers and Marines, broken civil wars? Most Workers don’t know that the small nation of Haiti is not only a very poor population, but also a feared revolutionary proletariat of the ruling classes worldwide. Since the revolution started in 1984-86, the Haitian population has learned to fight on its own. It has a long experience of struggle, more than any other nation in the world. She knows to be wary of police and ruling classes have stopped the massacre under Duvalier and after Duvalier, after U.S. military intervention of 1994 and after the international occupation from 2004 as before.

The ruling classes fear above all the discredit of the Haitian state and the absence of repressive forces that would make an overwhelming popular movement. And this danger is exacerbated by the fact that the earthquake has helped to destroy the State of Haiti both physically and in its credibility. If the buildings were demolished to the confidence of the people in this state has also been, seeing that it was completely absent to rescue victims and organize relief efforts, the organization of care, housing for disaster victims , safety of residents and distribution of food ...

And the fear of global ruling class especially for the future: the more time passes, people can learn to do without a bourgeois state. Now, to address the urgency of the situation, without help from the Haitian government or foreign armed forces, people organize themselves into neighborhood committees and federate to organize water and power, build and protect neighborhoods. And they fear nothing so much as the fact that this situation persists because then the oppressed of Haiti would become ungovernable. The ruling classes of the world have nothing to fear as the situation of a people who learn, as the Paris Commune to dispense with the State of the oppressors.

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