Ratcheting up the genocide in Haiti: Blocking Aid Delivery

He was speaking about the 9,000 UN troops shooting unarmed Haitian women, children, handicap people, even babies.


_{Lying in blood on the floor in her own home in Site Soley, 22 year-old Haitian mother, Sonia Romelus, was killed by the same bullet that passed through the body of her 1-year old infant son, Nelson. Her 4-year old son, Stanley Romelus, who was sleeping next to his mother and brother was killed instantly by a single shot to the head. This is the brutal nature of the war being waged on the poor in Haiti. (See, Ezili Dantò's Deliver this Letter to Lula, July 28, 2005)}

_{4 year-old Stanley Romelus was shot in the head by UN troops according to his father. The boy was killed in their home along with his mother and brother after UN soldiers lobbbed in a red smoke grenade and shot indiscriminantly in Site Soley on July 6, 2005. (View photo gallery of all 12 images from HIP a Haitiaction.net. WARNING: Will be disturbing to most. Extremely graphic images.) In the early hours of July 6, 2005, 440 UN troops attacked Site Soley in order to kill Dred Wilme, one lone Haitian man attacked at home in the dead of night. And, according to the declassified documents an additional 1000 foreign soldiers secured the perimeter area. The UN soldiers fired 22,000 rounds of ammunition into Site Soley during the operation. Countless Site Soley civilians, over 60 at last report, were also shot dead during the raid. (See,The Cite Soleil Massacre Declassification Project .)}


Today, Father Jean Juste's message still resonate, except that the opportunity to "kill Haitians, kill Haitians", as that US video game - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City- advocates, doesn't have to be done by a bullet. No. The earthquake allows those wanting Haiti's Black majority dead to just let the earthquake victims whose legs, arms and other limbs that were amputated coagulate in blood clots and with no anti-coagulants being distributed, they are dying by the thousands. Allow people with little water, food for 27 days since the earthquake to just be without water, food or medicine. They die horribly, horribly. And I won't go back to Haiti unless I've got more doctors, more food, more water, more medicine...and the US iron will blocking aid to the people, has STOPPED.

That iron will to depopulate Haiti and take the land, the resources, the
strategic location of Haiti, looms large against Haiti's defenseless and
impoverished. Who will stand up against it? Who understands it enough not too waste time in useless talks and promises, if not us.

Remember how Haitians in New York got together and raised tons of food, water and medicine in September 2008, after the four devastating back-to-back storms? Remember the international pledges to help the hurricane victims and how that came to naught and how the $100million that Congresswoman Maxine Waters and others at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) pushed the Bush administration to pass through never reached those most in need. But paid NGO staff salaries and shipping fee? Remmember how the people died, and died and suffered in flooded-out Gonaives. How the UN "help" was no help. The 10,000 NGO help was no help? At least 26 severely malnourished children have died while food Haitians in New York sent rot in storage?

_{Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)}

Remember people in Gonaives were living on their roofs for five, six
months, with little relief? No flood barriers, or major washed-out roads and infrastructure were ever rebuild, no aid in any substantial manner ever reached the flood victims. The same is going on in Haiti right now with the earthquake.

Here's a reminder of yesterday that is today in Haiti:

"In New York, 77 tons of food collected by New York Haitians for Haiti still
remained in storage after three months because USAID instructed the food had to be shipped by its approved contractor and received by one of its approved NGOs, not directly to the Haitian government. Ezili's HLLN was told, upon inquiring why these donations were not flown out as urgency demanded, that the Federal Government declined transport and even when New York offered to pay for transport, their National Guards were denied airspace clearance.". It seemed that USAID, as the US Federal Government agency in charge, would rather see the collected food, water and medicine rot than have their contractors NOT make money off its shipment and delivery in Haiti! And, it did rot in a warehouse in New York while the storm-ravaged people New York Haitians had collected it for, starved and died. (Obama's empty promises: Change did not come.)

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