Lu sur le net : L'occupation US en 1915 a plus coûté à Haïti que la somme payée à la France pour reconnaître l'indépendance du pays. (en anglais)

Publié par siel sur 28 Juillet 2020, 19:27pm

Catégories : #AYITI EXTREME DROITE, #AYITI ROSE RAKET, #AYITI ECONOMIE, #PEUPLE sans mémoire..., #DUVALIER

n Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 8:34 PM luckner bayas <renkcul@gmail.com> wrote:

To all,

The July 11, 1825 agreement by Hayti to pay France a huge amount of money in return for the recognition of its independence and the fatidique date of July 28, 1915 when Hayti lost its sovereingty to the US. (See the links below). What Hayti lost in 1825 is peanuts compared to what it lost in 1915. Despite carrying a huge and unfair debt Hayti was still able to survive. It never missed a payment to France until the US invasion and occupation in 1915; an occupation engineered under false pretense by the most racist US president ever :Woodrow Wilson. Profiting from everyone's preoccupation with the first World War, Wilson, following the script of the movie of Birth of a Nation, sent the heirs of the confederate soldiers (then integrated into the US army) to Hayti to do the job of "handling" the Haytian negroes.

A) The human cost:

Estimates up to 50,000 Haytian peasants were massacred. Mass graves of executions were pointed by the historian Michel Soukar in Caracol, the site where the industrial complex is now located. Haytians flee en masse the repressive regimes of Dartiguenave and Borno that were established by the occupants to force them into sugarcane plantations strategically set up by US Southern planters (heirs to the dreadful slaveholders) in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Once arrived to those plantations, Haytians were practically put back into slavery. That was the huge human cost of the 1915 occupation of Hayti.

B) The environmental cost:

Estimates of millions of huge tall Haytian pine trees were indiscriminately cut and shipped to Europe in an unprecedented logging operation on the island. By the end of the puppet Lescot administration in 1946, it was reported that Hayti lost 40% of its mountain vegetative cover (going from 60% to 20%). The environmental damages that ensued (erosion, floods, pollution...) renders Hayti today one of the most vulnerable countries on the planet.

C) The political cost:

With the loss of its sovereignty, Hayti also lost the ability to speak in world affairs. The forcefully imposed 1916 treaty gave the US the right to intervene at any time in its internal affairs. Hence, the once proud and independant negro country that often stood up to the US on racial issues [the country that declared the end of slavery and offered freedom to any blacks in America that reached its soil, the country that stood up to the US over the execution of the great abolionist John Brown (A street is named in Port-auPrince in his honor), the country that gave Frederick Douglas the platform stand to denounce the mistreatments of blacks in the US..etc]; that voice was silenced. The concepts of constitution and governance in a negro country were reduced only to simple formalities that have no significance on development or welfare of the population. They can be changed, dissolved, violated, bypassed anytime...by the capricious orders from the US. And those orders are executed by puppets that are carefully screened, selected and placed in the ceremonial role of "presidents" who have no power of decision. Their sole function is to oppress their own people for the benefits of others. And they get compensated for it. As an example, when the US wanted to change the Haytian constitution that banned foreigners from owning land in country, the Haytian legislators refused. The puppet president (Dartiguenave Sudre) was ordered to shut down the parliament. He did. The Haytian parliament was closed for 13 years! Later, the same puppet president would complain to James Weldon Johnson, during his fact finding visit, how he was not treated as a president by the US representatives who kept him out of decisions affecting the nation. The man forgot that he was a puppet!

D) The economic cost: Hayti went from one the most thriving economies in the caribbean down to the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Before the occupation, people from all over the caribbean used to come to Hayti in search of work and a good living. Back then one US dollar equals 2 Haytian gourdes! The pillage of the country funds and of its natural resources by the occupants are well documented. General Smedley Butler admitted in his memoir "War is a Racket" that he helped make Wall Street what it is out of the proceeds he forcefully took from Hayti. Hence, Hayti was transformed into a vast pool of wealth for exploitation by US explorers/entrepreneurs to get rich quickly (SHADA, Reynolds & Seldren, etc).

E) The psychological cost. The divide and conquer strategy by the occupants has devastated the Haytian population. Sisters and brothers started to turn against each other in a "sauve qui peut" frantic mode of subsistence. Since the treason of Charlemagne Peralte by Jean Baptiate Conze, Haytians began to lose the bond of brotherhood; the phenomenon of "collabos" becoming a means for survival and replacing patriotism. As a result, Haytians no longer trust themselves or their countrymen. Even worse is the negative way that they are now looking at themselves. They blame themselves for their situation; they blame their origin, their culture, their heroes, their constitution, governments, etc.. but they absolve the occupants of any responsibility for their condition [because they are unable to see his hands that are pulling the strings!]. Just exactly the results that the detractors of Hayti had long dreamed of obtaining. For instance, one syndicated columnist from a major newspaper in Hayti recently wrote an article to blame the current dreadful situation of the country upon "Haytians not being able to sit down and dialogue". What dialogue? What possible dialogue is he talking about? Dialogue under that suffocating and humiliating oppression? Dialogue between once fraternal entities that have now been rendered antipodes and sustained as antipodes by the manipulative tactics of others? Dialogue under the watchful eyes of the colonial masters? I would like to ask him if he understands the workings of racist imperialism. I would say to him: do not waste your time with the collabos. Fight instead for the removal of the oppression.

After 105 years of enduring this suffocating oppression, Hayti, down to its knees, is now labeled "sh'hole" country by the same detractors who put it in that situation. Let us make the case that it has not gotten to this hole by the misdeeds of France on July 11, 1825. Rather it is 1915 and the subsequent racist policies toward it that broke Hayti's back. Let us make the case that the 28 billions that are called for reparations from France are peanuts compared to what Hayti lost by the misdeeds of the occupation of 1915.

Food for thought and reflection.

In solemn remembrance of those who have lost their lives since the fatidique date of July 28, 1915 and this long and continuing racial oppression against the first black republic of the world.

L. Bayas

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