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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked Israel to send a police contingent to Haiti "to fight the growing anarchy on the streets. The plea comes amid reports that the city is being transformed into a battle zone between various gangs and looting is escalating. " Israel decided to send 100 police officers to Haiti in response to the UN request. (100 Israeli Police heading for Haiti.) But most of our folks on the ground in Haiti, don't see this growing anarchy, only people writhing in pain, hungry, thirsty and coping with unspeakable grief. (Ezili Dantò Witness Project)

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WE ARE THE HAITIANS

We are the Haitians - from the womb to the tomb our lives is about struggle n ap lite against Western oppression and re-colonization. Nou La! We are here! Still. After two centuries of struggle. No force has taken us down, none shall. There are 4.5 million Haitians abroad, more than 9 million at home. We beat back 19-years of US occupation before; we've beat back neocolonialism so as not to be DEVELOPED like the rest of the Caribbean where the Black majority deny their African-roots, are pushed into ghettos, own no property and are essentially, servants to Western corporatocracy - maids, butlers, housekeepers, and sexual playthings for visiting tourist. Not going to happen. Not on Dessalines' land. (See, Does the Western economic calculation of wealth fit Haiti - fit Dessalines idea of wealth distribution? No!)

BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE

Before the horrific Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, Ezili's HLLN was basically the sole international voice mobilizing against charity aid workers, non-for-profit pedophiles and UN soldiers, sexually molesting, abusing and raping, Haiti's children and people behind the facade of foreign benevolence, Christian charity, peacekeeping and humanitarian aid. The earthquake has exponentially exacerbated the problem of foreigners feeding off of Haiti's poverty and man-made and natural disasters. But, Ezili' s HLLN, is NOT in shock. The direct US occupation - the stealing of Haiti's resources, murder of those who objected, enslavement through the imposition of the global elite's interests, started on February 29, 2004 for Haiti's majority when US Special forces flew democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide, out of Haiti as "cargo," back to Africa, on a plane used for renditions. The US occupation did not start on January 14, 2010, two days after the earthquake. No. We've never been seduced by the traditional Western savoir narrative, not in 2004 nor now in 2010. That was the first flight taking, kidnapping, a Haitian out of Haiti without the consent of the people of Haiti and at a time of crisis. We are here - Nou La! And there are today thousands of small, Haiti eathquake orphans - children who are unaccompanied, orphaned or lost one parent. (See, Claims of a million earthquake orphans are clearly false and those making them are being irresponsible ; Haiti earthquake -- by the numbers.) Some are homeless children separated from their families due to the earthquake.

Many good-hearted people from abroad want to open up their arms to real Haiti orphans and that is all good. But the traffickers and predators who prey on tragedy and misfortunes of the weak, folks like accused American pedophile Douglas Perlitz, or Canadian ex-priest John Duarte, or the deported 114 Sri-Lankan UN soldiers who turned Haiti into a nightmare trafficking and sexually abusing Haiti's children and peoples have counterparts still in Haiti. (Editorial: Fairfield should have helped Haiti months ago ; Douglas Perlitz indicted for abusing homeless boys in Haiti for a decade ; John Duarte - another accused Canadian pedophile of Haitian children ; and, UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children .)

Human trafficking is on the rise after the earthquake. The displaced Haitian children are not up for sale for either the organ traders, laboratory experiments, sexual predators or to wealthier Northerners in need of a child to raise willing to ignore the trauma experience by these children, forcing them to assimilate to meet the expectations of others at such a confusing time. (No wholesale evacuation and adoption; Claims of a million earthquake orphans are clearly false and those making them are being irresponsible.)

These displaced children or eathquake orphans need immediate shelter, food, medical treatment, security, sanitation. Their parents may have been separated from them and if not, now is not the time to also abruptly deny them cultural sovereignty and the right to mourn and heal with the support of their community. Family in Haiti is more than the nucleus mom/dad/children in the Euro/American way. It's extended further. (See, Statement on Haiti adoptions from the international community of adoptees of color.) There could be some intermediate measure taken besides flying them off with strangers, no matter how well meaning. Those truly interested in the best interests of the child may help make sure that immediate emergency relief reach these children. Don't just take the child away leaving the community to spend a lifetime wondering whatever happened to each child.

Ezili's HLLN supports, reiterates and agrees wholeheartedly with the Adoptees of Color Statement on Haiti, written from the perspective of a group of adoptees of color opposed to international adoption of Haitian children that maintains: "All adoptions from Haiti must be stopped and all efforts to help children be refocused on giving aid to organizations working toward family reunification and caring for children in their own communities. We urge you to join us in supporting Haitian children's rights to life, survival, and development within their own families and communities."

Church group arrested in Haiti taking children across border

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Although UNICEF warns people to avoid adopting Haiti orphans for fear of encouraging child trafficking, there are plane loads of Haiti's children being taken out of Haiti right now when the people are in crisis - this is ill advised and dangerous. (Anti-Trafficking Efforts in Haiti .)

33 Haitian children were kidnapped by Americans alleging they were rescuing orphans. One 8-year-old girl, told workers, "I am not an orphan" she believed her mother had arranged a short vacation for her. (10 Americans Arrested in Haiti Await Charges.)

...After the admission of the children (to SOS Children's Village), three persons came to the village claiming been the fathers and old brother of five children, they said the woman who took the children to DR said she organised summer camps for the children, and that now, because of the Haitian situation, she offered them to take care of their children in DR but they had not intended it to be permanent. ( See- Americans arrested: children brought to SOS, traumaticised state of trafficked children.)

Unlike many "helping" Haiti, HLLN has been doing this work for two decades now and yet the only fundraising HLLN has ever done is to ask people who read our writings and get our post to consider subscribing at $12dollars a month. But that can no longer be the case. Good-hearted citizens from all over the world are donating money to "help" Haiti but they don't have the slightest clue of the corporate predators out there that will feed off their generosity, no clue.

When I first was the legal advisor to President Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti in 1994, I had another title at the Ministry of Justice, it was Coordinator of Haiti Donors Coordinateur Des Bailleurs des Fond. In that position, working in the Ministry of Justice as the Haitian minister's legal advisor and as liaison between the Haitian justice ministry and the international donors, I got first hand experience on how Haiti's friends, Haiti donors, the International community pledge funds to secure their country's interests, to corrupt and buy Haiti officials to that end. Foreign aid is NOT about empowering Haitians, or securing Haitian interests. We Haitians know it, I lived it, HLLN lawyers who wanted to secure Haiti's interest, were forced out of Haiti by the USAID and the then US ambassador to Haiti because as they said clearly and loudly we had a "conflict of interest."

HLLN did not let that stop our work to change Haiti's paradigm. We've used our own limited resources, continued since 1994 to this day, to try and expose the corrupting USAID/US embassy presence in Haiti and their NGOs that deny Haitian sovereignty. Entrap Haitian leaders, like President Aristide and President Preval. HLLN has experience with the colony narrative, the two most common neocolonial storylines about Haiti and false charity, false orphanages, false benevolence, and false donor aid. That is why, the minute the extent of the earthquake became known, we could SEE -through these predator's eyes - the money they KNOW they will make from Haiti's misfortune: over 200,000 dead; maybe 400,000 bodies yet to be recovered from under the rubble, over a million Haitians displaced, 236,000 Haitians have fled to the Haitian outback, between 700,000 to 800,000 are living in makeshift camps. Untold numbers are suffering injuries and wounds without any pain medication or medical treatment; the number of injured is estimated at 194,000. 70 percent of the buildings in Port au Prince collapsed on their occupants and in Kafou and other towns closer to the epicenter of the quake 90 percent of the buildings flattened their inhabitants. Leogane, Les Cayes, Petit Goave and other points South, destroyed. This colossal tragedy is so unfathomable, so unfathomable.

But we can see how the proponents of disaster capitalism, of profit-over-people values are looking at this and USAID is nothing if not the arm of the US State Department/Pentagon for pursuing the interests of the corporatocracy, of Wall Street, not Main Street. That is indisputable in Haiti and has been so for 50-years. The vultures are circling the mounds of Haitian corpse and earthquake injured and envisioning dollar signs. Their industrial military complex, private security companies and mercenary "police" enforcers like Dick Chenney's Halliburton and Blackwater-types, Brown and Root (mentioned over 4 decades ago in referenced to constructing an oil transfer facility and pipelines in Haiti), DYNCORPS, etc.. are about to make some dough off this Haiti earthquake for some time to come.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked Israel to send a police contingent to Haiti "to fight the growing anarchy on the streets. The plea comes amid reports that the city is being transformed into a battle zone between various gangs and looting is escalating. " Israel decided to send 100 police officers to Haiti in response to the UN request. (100 Israeli Police heading for Haiti.)

HLLN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND

HLLN has launched the HLLN - Nou La/We are here! - relief fund to help the earthquake victims and to use this crisis limelight on Haiti to SHOW that it's USAID and its NGOs and US policy in Haiti that's violent. Haitians are a peaceful people. USAID and its Haitian Oligarchy and NGO subcontractors, masturbating on Black pain, for over 50-years with zero development achievement, have been trumpeting the "Haitians-are-criminals-bandits-corrupt-and-violent-line" to mostly keep
itself in a job. Because of this Western narrative about Haiti, because the
powers-that-be traditionally support dictatorship against the people's
choice, Haitians are the most persecuted human beings in the entire Western Hemisphere, (See, The Western vs. the Real Narrative on Haiti.) With the earthquake, the militarization of aid, the drilling for oil, mining for uranium, gold, copper, iridium, marble, etc., the exclusion and exploitation on top of horrific physical and psychic pain shall be broader and more massive unless decent people, of all the races, lift up their blinders and stop denying the historical and current reality in Haiti. Together we must keep the poor alive with dignity and help heal both the oppressor and the oppressed. Together, we must raise money to meet these newly arriving and embolden predators who are FEEDING off this earthquake tragedy - all of them.

Please support this work. Donate to HLLN' Circulate these posts. Support Haitian-led,s earthquake relief fund. Haiti-capacity building relief efforts. We can be the change we're looking for on this planet. Yes, we can! Thank you very much.

Men anpil chay pa lou Many hands make light a heavy load.

Ezili Dantò of HLLN
Si kriye te leve lamò, tout manman tout t ap la - If crying could raise the dead, every mother would still be alive."