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July 8, 2010
Dread Wilme, Haiti's warrior assassinated by UN/US occupiers
By Èzili Dantò
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the July 6, 2005 assassination of Emmanuel Dread Wilme (in Kreyòl - "Drèd Wilmè"), Ezili's HLLN re-member his struggle that continues and honor his life and sacrifices.
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On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the July 6, 2005 assassination of Emmanuel Dread Wilme (in Kreyòl - "Drèd Wilmè"), Ezili's HLLN brings you these links to re-member his struggle that continues and to honor his life.
There will always be more Dred Wilmés as long as there is misery and exclusion imposed on Haiti by the powerful nations, according to the participants at Drèd Wilmè's funeral, (AHP)
EMMANUEL "DREAD" WILME, The "Bandit King" of Site Soley US/UN Most Wanted Man In Haiti, SPEAKS -
In his own words, (in Kreyol (audio) & English Transcription). April 4, 2005 interview on Lakounewyork for Lakounewyork and for the Ezili Dantò Witness Project)
Drèd Wilmè was assassinated by the UN/US occupiers of Haiti on July 6,
2005 after the Haiti Bicentennial Bush Regime change and in the manner
of the US crucifixtion of Charlemagne Pèralte during the first US occupation of Haiti, Dred was labelled "Bandit King" of Site Soley.
According to The Cite Soleil Massacre Declassification Project
the UN fired over 22,000 rounds of ammunition into this thin-shacked,
cardboard-house, poverty-stricken Black community of about 450,000
Haitians, most having been forced off their safer rural lands by US/USAID/WB/IMF policies in the 80s and 90s.
The overpopulation and imposed poverty brought crime to Haiti's capital
as well as mobilized the desire of the people of Site Soley for a
democratic government that would look out for their domestic interests and not that of US agribusiness, USAID's sterilize, starve
(through use/non-use of food aid and free trade fraud promoting
faminie), sweatshop, slaughter (through dictatorship) and contamination
programs, all, to meet US State Department-Kissinger's depopulation and
weakening of Haiti's public and social infrastructure initiatives. Population control, sterilize, force-assimilate, poison and starve - that is US foreign policy as carried out, say, since 1975 when President Ford signed off on Kissinger's NSSM 200
as official US foreign policy. Haiti was required not to invest in
public health care, schooling, sanitation, its infrastructure and
forced to privatized public companies servicing the public good. A
flood -"Lavalas"- of people in Port au Prince and throughout Haiti rose
up to wash away the US/Euro/World Bank/Agribusiness/Sweatshop
impositions, when they came together and voted for Haiti's first
democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was a
spokesperson for the poor. This mobilization which was in direct
reaction to US imposition that had increased, by the millions, the
population in Haiti's capital would lead to two Bush Regime changes
(1991 and 2004) to "pacify" the justly angry residents forced into the
Haitian capital as cheap labor in what the foreign NGOs' would come to
label as the "red zones" of Site Soley, Bel Air, Martissant, Solino, et
al... where they would be denied foreign aid, Haiti government aid and
help and eventually their support for the Lavalas revolution would
bring in the UN occupation, total disenfranchisement of the masses and
the UN/US MINUSTAH slaughter and wholesale preventive incarceration of
"bandits."
Reportedly, on July 6, 2005, over 60 civilians where
slaughtered with hundreds wounded, their meager properties leveled by
US/UN firepower. (Video: U.N. Massacre on July 6, 2005 in Site Soley.) The people of Site Soley secreted away Wilmè's body so his body wouldn't be defiled like Charlemagne Peralte
by Haiti's occupiers. His funeral was a hero's farewell. His remains
decked in a Vodun boat pushed out onto the open seas next to Site Soley
water shores, and set to flames for his spirit to soar towards the
countless African Ancestors who, like Dread Wilme, had made the
ultimate sacrifice for our people's freedom and dignity. Dread Wilme
fought off the armies from all the nations that had come to re-colonize
Haiti. He fought the multi-nation occupation forces, their hired
Haitian guns, alone. Faced them for 16-months against overwhelming odds
with only the appreciation of a grateful but disenfranchised nation of
impoverished Haitians. Funeral participants indicated to AHP that
"there will always be more Drèd Wilmés as long as misery and exclusion is imposed on Haiti
by the former enslaving nations. Months after his funeral, on October
17, 2005 on the anniversary of the assassination of Haiti's
revolutionary founding father (Oct. 17, 1806), Jean Jacques Dessalines
(Janjak Desalin), the people of Site Soley lifted up Dread Wilme in the
fashion they have been lifting up the spirit of Dessalines for over two
centuries. On October 17, 2005, the people of Site Soley, Haiti,
declared, in their own people-authorized naming ceremony, with
reportedly thousands in attendance, that Emmanuel Dread Wilme is their
"hero for the 21st century... in honor of all of Haiti's freedom
fighters, the masses in Haiti's Site Soley renamed and inaugurated a
major boulevard in Haiti (Rt. 9) the "Dread Wilme Boulevard" to commemorate his life along with that of Haiti's founding father, Janjak Desalin.
Ezili's
HLLN is sad and proud to have stood firm with Dread Wilme and for the
people of Haiti's right to self-defense, when no one, not even the
white so-called "progressives" or "liberals" would deign to give him
voice or say his name aloud in a positive manner. In fact, many used
the media and their platforms to help the UN/US criminalize Dread Wilme,
the people of Site Soley and Lavalas, the better to dismiss their
slaughter. It wasn't until after his death, that some came forth to
report his death and the UN massacres. But Ezili's HLLN said his name
aloud, lifted him up while he lived and struggled, wrote and campaigned, virtually alone, against his summary execution by the UN/US occupiers of Haiti. We commissioned this Lakounewyork April 2005 interview with the English transcription
for the Ezili Danto Witness Project at a time when Dread Wilme voice,
strong as ever, did not betray that he had taken some bullets in his
stomach, was wounded and fighting for his life, refusing all urgings to
leave Site Soley, lay low and maybe live. We commissioned this
interview of Dread Wilme so that future generation of Haitians and
concerned citizens for peace and justice in the international community
could hear his voice,
see that he was no "bandit" but a human being, a responsible community
provider, leader and a Haitian patriot with the courage of the
revolutionary Kapwa Lamò and Sanit Bèlè.
As a result of our
work, the strength, ceaseless struggle and confidence of Haiti's
suffering masses and that of some determine Haiti grassroots activists
in Haiti, we believe less people were slaughtered in Haiti from 2004 to
2006 by the US/UN. In the July 6th case, the US Ambassador to Haiti,
James Foley, not happy with our interventions, sent self-serving cables to Washington
stating that we were "spreading rumors" of a massacre, claiming there
was video evidence of the illegal goings on and gross abuses of force
on unarmed civilians by the UN/US in Haiti. There was video evidence and our reporting, based on subsequent information, showed we had understated the number of troops that entered Site Soley and the number of civilians murdered outright, including UN/US head shots that killed babies asleep in bed with their mother, the old, infirm, handicapped and even pregnant women.
Yet, the UN/US reported they were hunting "bandits" and "gangs" in
Haiti. The world believed them, ignoring, to this day, the unearned
suffering and innocent casualties of imperialism and US/Euro corporate
greed. Voiceless folks that Dread Wilme had protected for 16-months in
Haiti, with his very life and breath.
To hear Dread Wilme, go to Dread Wilme Speaks or read the English translation." (Emmanuel "Dread" Wilmè: The "Bandit King" of Site Soley and the US/UN most Wanted Man, SPEAKS.)
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- Stolen Womb- http://www.ratical.org/ratville/stolenWombs.html
- Bio tech firm developing HIV tainted GM - HIV Infection Rates Increase With Corn Consumption in Sub Saharan Africa (Click on audio interview to listen to Robert Wingfield talking about GMOs and HIV on The Truther Girls radio show.)
- Population control in Haiti- See, "USAID Go Home"
-The World Health Organization (WHO) has been known to carry out
vaccination programs with tetanus shots laced with an abortion agent
and given only to Black and brown women of child bearing age.
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"an estimated 44% of all Brazilian women aged between 14 and 55 had
been permanently sterilized... the program started in the mid-1970's
under the aegis and guidance of the US Agency for International
Development (USAID). (See, Andre Caetano, Fertility Transition and the
Transition of Female Sterilization in Northeastern Brazil: The Roles of
Medicine and Politics, http://www.iussp.org/Brazil2001/s10/S19_02_Caetona.pdf;
According to some reports, under the program, as many as 90% of all Brazilian women of African descent had been sterilized,
which would eliminate future generations in a nation whose Black
population is second only to Nigeria's. Almost half of Brazil's 154
million people in the 1980's were believed to be of African ancestry. (BRAZIL LAUNCHES INQUIRY INTO U.S. POPULATION ACTIVITIES -The charge: millions sterilized to meet U.S. political objectives http://bit.ly/dlq7qX)
- Through JDR, III programs in Puerto Rico - an estimated 35% of Puerto Rico's women of child-bearing age were permanently sterilized, according to a study made that year by the island's Public Health Department
- UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents
- Vaccinate Haiti? No - Stop using Haiti as a Human Laboratory
- GMO corn that sterilizes men - Spermicidal Corn
- "His team was working on GMOs and he found out one day that they were putting spermicides into grain to ship strategically to countries around the world where U.S. foreign policy wanted population control. This is part of the U.S. foreign aid package." (Spermicidal Corn : GMO Population Control)
Human Rights Lawyer, Èzili Dantò is dedicated to correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti. An award winning playwright, a performance poet, author and lawyer, Èzili Dantò is founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, runs the Èzili Dantò website, listserve, eyewitness project, FreeHaitiMovement, the on-line journal, Haitian Perspectives and Zili Dlo, an Èzili Network project for clean water, renewable power, cultural education and skills transfer for Haiti. In 2018, Èzili was an honoree, Connecticut Women Hall of Fame.