Abus et brutalités policières largement répandus à l'Ile-à-Vache(en anglais)

Publié par siel sur 28 Juillet 2014, 12:09pm

Widespread Abuse and Police Brutality in Haiti's Ile a Vache " CounterPunch

To govern by decree, or diktat, is the definition of a dictatorship, and this the Haitian executive branch does with great zeal. On the other hand, to call Haiti's executive branch a dictatorship w...

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The Martelly-Lamothe regime

To govern by decree, or diktat, is the definition of a dictatorship, and this the Haitian executive branch does with great zeal. On the other hand, to call Haiti’s executive branch a dictatorship would be too kind, given that this administration lacks even a building in which to conduct its affairs and runs its business from hotels. So let us fall back on the ever-convenient term, under which so many unacceptable governments are filed, and call it a regime.

The Martelly-Lamothe regime, run jointly by Haiti’s President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe, has issued numerous decrees in its enthusiasm to appropriate and liquidate Haitian assets. Nearly all follow the letter of a program that was laid out in 2011 by former United States president Bill Clinton, who serves as Haiti’s de facto colonial governor. The program is buttressed, not only by close US partners France and Canada, but also by the so-called emerging economic powers including Brazil and India. The latter have contributed thousands of their citizens to the UN “peacekeepers” to enforce the undemocratic occupation. Supposedly leftist governments like those of Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela also eagerly support the regime under the pretext that they would not wish to abandon Haiti to the US.

For this discussion, the most relevant decrees issued by Haiti’s regime were one in 2012 to replace with presidential appointees all the country’s elected mayors, judges, and higher-level regional executives, and another on May 10, 2013 to declare all the country’s offshore islands to be zones of tourism development and public utility.

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A delegation of more than eight human rights groups visited the island on March 11 to 13, 2014 to investigate the current situation. They delivered a damning report about the regime’s comportment in Ile a Vache. Specifically, they confirmed that the regime never directly consulted with the population about the development plans, and the people first learned of these plans in September 2013 when a large-scale survey of the island began and the Dominican Company, Ingenieria Estrella S.A, started to bulldoze peasants’ farms to create a 9.3-mile East-West road.

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