"Never again shall colonist or European set foot on this soil as master or landowner. This shall henceforward be the foundation of our constitution."
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"We are looking at a country that has set a model for Black countries. The only country which had a Constitution which was in accord with the purpose of the people. We cannot have Black people enslaved or colonized and then when we're free we say "Oh, our colonizers are our best friends. They teach us the laws we should have in our books. We're going to take their books to have the schools. We're going to get their doctors to come in and build our hospitals." Why the hell then... why don't you just stay in slavery or in colonization!. --Bayyinah Bello (For more from Bayyinah Bello, go to Ayiti
- HLLN links on another Jan 1st Independence Day under US/UN occupation, featuring Haiti warrior Bayyinah Bello. )
Proclamation of Haiti's Independence by General Jean Jacques Dessalines (English translation) *** Libà ¨te Ou La Mà ² (French) and (Kreyà ²l)
Deklarasyon Endepandans Ayiti Premye Janvye 1804 Gonayiv, Ayiti
November 29, 1803 -- Haiti's First Declaration of Independence was signed only by Black generals: Clerveaux, Desalin and Henry
Christophe who held the greatest power through, not foreign support,
but their connections with the rebel indigenous peoples army.
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Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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Another Independence Day Under Occupation, 2006:
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In the book "Two thousand Seasons," Ayi Kwei Armah writes: "How have we come to be mere mirrors to annihilations? For whom do we aspire to reflect our people's death? For whose entertainment shall we sing our agony? In what hopes? That the destroyers, aspiring to extinguish us, will suffer conciliatory remorse at the sight of their own fantastic success? The last imbecile to dream such dreams is dead, killed by the saviors of his dreams."
And so it is an exercise in futility to go to the perpetrators and executioners of human rights crimes in Haiti in hopes of getting justice for our people. Those who ousted the constitutional government of Haiti -- the U.N., which acts as proxy to maintain this international crime, the Haitian lackeys and their Roger Noreiga and State Department masters -- are dead inside and cannot hear the cries of the Haitian masses.
It's not their mission or mandate. For they don't represent life, liberty, democracy, development and decency, but its opposite. This officialdom, this authority, rains death, despotism, destruction, cruelty, inhumanity, injustice, and represents all that civilized peoples worldwide struggle to overcome. They write laws but are too "high tech" to live them. They mouth words of "justice" and fairness but their words are DEAD.
To further quote Ghanaian writer, Ayi Kwei Armah: "Those utterly dead, never again to awake, such is their muttering."(See full text of HLLN's regular Jan 1st essay for Another Independence Day Under Occupation)
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