Before the 2004 coup d'etat, Haiti barely had 3,000 prisoners throughout the country. Today in UN-occupied Haiti, more than 6,440 still await trial, remain in jail, some going on for five years of prolonged detention, without ever having been charged, tried or convicted of any crime. Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haiti's foremost human rights advocate, was disappeared in UN-occupied Haiti on August 12, 2007, not long after he gave an interview denouncing the coup d'etat, the UN and the Haitian oligarchy.
President Aristide is currently in exile in South Africa where he is essentially under house arrest, watched carefully and, for all intents and purposes, not allowed to freely express himself without the PERMISSION of the coup d'etat countries of US, Canada and France before any message to the Haitian people is allowed through.
But in November 2009 after the Haitian electoral council again banned Haiti's most powerful political party from participation in the upcoming elections, at great risk to himself and his family and, in an attempt to meet the registration requirements imposed by Haiti's government under-US/UN-occupation, for the first time since being forcibly deported from Haiti by the US, President Aristide went on Radio Solidarità ©, a popular Haitian radio station, to confirm that he has, in fact, as head of the Fanmi Lavalas' political party, authorized Lavalas Family official, Maryse Narcisse, to act as his proxy to register the Fanmi Lavalas political party for the upcoming parliamentary elections. (Listen to Interview of Dr Jean-Bertrand Aristide by Radio Solidarità © .)
Then, at the request of the electoral council, he mailed, via DHL, from South Africa, the original letter of authorization and when that wasn't enough, he went before the world, on a national radio show, to clearly and unequivocally state that he authorizes Maryse Narcisse as his legitimate proxy to register the Lavalas party.
President Aristide told Radio Solidarità ©, "It was me who wrote the mandate, signed the mandate and sent the mandate." He called for "honest, fair and free elections" and said he would personally come before the electoral council if the Haitian government would give him travel documents.
Gaillot Dorsinvil's reply was that the electoral council's decision was final.
Thus, the Haitian Provisional Electoral Council will not recognize the Aristide authorization and register the Lavalas party. The reasons given is that the Aristide authorization is not technically legal presumably because the President's signature was not properly witnessed by a Haitian notary (if he was in Haiti) or, as he is abroad in exile, by a Haitian consulate or embassy abroad. That Aristide is in exile doesn't escape the electoral council's notice even though they act as if forced exile is not a logistical factor with the Lavalas registration. There is no Haitian embassy or consulate in South Africa or anywhere near where President Aristide is. The nearest Haitian counsulate is, to the best of our information, in Nigeria and then Europe. But that Nigerian office is not even open but for a few times a year. And besides, even if President Jean Bertrand Aristide where allowed to move from his South African house-arrest-exile by the coup d'etat countries of France, Canada and the US, as he indicates in the Radio Solidarità © interview, his Haitian passport has expired and the Haitian government knows he cannot travel without its renewal. Aristide wrote, in sum, "the green-light from the Haitian government has not yet arrived here in South Africa."
And so, under the current disenfranchisement and coup d'etat/occupation mindset in Haiti, the largest and most powerful political party simply will not be allowed to register for elections at any time, period. It's fair to say no matter what Lavalas does, the point of the UN occupation is to exclude the majority from participatory democracy and deny the December 16th revolution and Lavalas movement.
That's exactly how the international community, the UN and Barack Obama's administration wants it to remain no matter that this situation defies democratic ideals, human rights, justice, equity, public law, is immoral, terrorizing, violates basic international law, the OAS charter, the UN charter, Caricom and other Hemispheric and international treaties on human rights, Haitian sovereignty, the Haitian constitution, and all legitimate election laws for fair, free and democratic elections.
And so, whether its through the 2004 coup d'etat, its reverberating repercussions or through this current Haitian provisional electoral council's circular legalese, where the voice of Haiti's majority is summarily excluded and fair and free elections cannot be held, this exclusion forms the foundation for the current US controls in Haiti and for their Haiti improvement and "good investment environment."
Article 21(1) of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives." Article 21(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government." The UN, US and OAS are plainly presiding over tainted elections in Haiti that excludes not just the voice of a minority, which would indeed be reprehensible, but the will of the majority in Haiti. This fraudulent process shall not, by any measure, vest the Haitian people's authority in the government and special interests deemed elected. For, such elections are not genuine, fair, free, democratic and inclusive but flagrant and malicious human rights violations.
Ezili Dantà ²
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
December 16, 2009
Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues
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Dr Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former President of the Republic of Haiti
National Representative of Fanmi Lavalas
Mr Gaillot Dorsinvil
President of the Provisional Electoral Council
Republic of Haiti
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