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Haiti: Many questions, few answers one month after Moise killing
"The problems in Haiti are somewhat intractable.
History there is a nightmare of despotism and mismanagement. What was once the crown jewel of France's colonial empire has been reduced to a basket case. The land on the Dominican side of the border is rich and productive. At one time so was Haiti, but two and a half centuries of environmental destruction have left it largely barren.
There's an invitation to failure in even trying to help, and yet we have an obligation as human beings"
Haiti has asked the UN to launch an international investigation into President Jovenel Moise’s assassination on July 7.
Haitian authorities say they have arrested 44 people in connection with the killing of President Jovenel
Moise at his home in the capital, Port-au-Prince, one month ago [File: Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters]
7 Aug 2021
The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/jovenel-moise-haiti-president-assassinated-at-age-53 .. in the early hours of July 7 sent shockwaves across the world, fuelling fears of worsening political instability .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/11/haitian-president-killing-fuels-escalating-fears-uncertainty .. and gang violence in the Caribbean nation.
But one month after a crew of armed mercenaries stormed Moise’s home .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-killed-in-attack-live .. in the capital, Port-au-Prince, myriad questions remain unanswered about what took place – and about what path forward Haiti should chart .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/11/haitian-president-killing-fuels-escalating-fears-uncertainty .
Keep reading
* Haiti: ‘If a president is killed in his own home, who is exempt?’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/22/haiti-if-a-president-is-killed-in-his-own-home-who-is-exempt
* In Pictures: Haiti prepares to bury its slain president
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/7/22/in-pictures-haiti-prepares-to-bury-its-slain-president
* Haiti arrests top security chief in Moise murder investigation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/haiti-arrests-top-security-chief-in-slain-president-investigation
* Haiti PM vows to work to hold elections ‘as quickly as possible’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/haiti-pm-vows-to-work-to-hold-elections-as-quickly-as-possible
“The country is still asking for answers,” Laurent Lamothe, who served as Haitian prime minister from 2012 to 2014, told Al Jazeera in an interview on Saturday.
“The country is still in shock. People are very upset. The information is slow to trickle in and everybody is asking the same question: Where are the masterminds, those who are responsible for financially paying for this horrendous operation?”
VIDEO
Haitian authorities say they have arrested 44 people in connection with the killing, including 12 Haitian police officers, 18 Colombians who were allegedly part of the mercenary team and two Americans of Haitian descent.
The head of Moise’s security detail is among those arrested .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/haiti-arrests-top-security-chief-in-slain-president-investigation .. in connection with the plot, but Jean Laguel Civil’s lawyer has said his client’s arrest was politically motivated.
On Thursday, the Haitian government requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation, saying that Haiti considered the attack an international crime due to the alleged role of foreigners in planning, financing and carrying it out.
“I hope that the UN is going to respond favourably because that’s the least that the UN can do for Haiti and the Caribbean,” Lamothe said, “remembering that Haiti is the first Black republic in the world and we deserve all the international cooperation to find out who killed the president.”
Meanwhile, the Haitian justice system has struggled to find a judge willing to probe the killing.
“It is a sensitive, political dossier. Before agreeing to investigate it, a judge thinks about his own safety and that of his family,” one judge told the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity this week. “For this reason, investigating magistrates are not too enthusiastic about accepting it.”
Several magistrates have told the dean of the Court of First Instance in Port-au-Prince that they are not interested in working on the assassination.
Senior magistrate Bernard Saint-Vil said he would announce on Thursday the name of the investigating magistrate chosen to take on the case, but in the end, he could not because no judge wanted the job.
VIDEO
What next?
Questions also continue to swirl about what comes next for Haiti, where residents recently expressed fears that Moise’s killing .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/22/haiti-if-a-president-is-killed-in-his-own-home-who-is-exempt .. “shows that no one is exempt” from the violence that surged during the president’s tenure.
The presidency of Moise, who took office in 2017, was marred by corruption allegations as well as mass protests .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/15/down-with-the-dictatorship-protests-continue-in-haiti .. after he refused to step down in February of this year despite opposition leaders, rights advocates and legal experts arguing that his term had expired.
The Haitian president had been governing by decree .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/28/what-is-happening-in-haiti-political-crisis-persists .. since January 2020 after parliamentary terms were left to expire, while several key government institutions were not functioning.
Moise also oversaw surging gang violence in Port-au-Prince .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/haitian-journalist-activist-killed-in-port-au-prince-shootings .. that left countless dead, displaced thousands, and spurred accusations from rights groups .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/15/haiti-thousands-displaced-as-gang-violence-insecurity-escalates .. that “the silence of the state authorities proves their total disinterest in the massive and systematic violations” of peoples’ rights.
Amid a lack of clarity and competing claims over who would take control after Moise’s killing, Haiti last month appointed .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/20/haiti-in-grips-of-political-crisis-swears-in-new-prime-minister .. a new interim prime minister, Ariel Henry. Henry has promised .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/haiti-pm-vows-to-work-to-hold-elections-as-quickly-as-possible .. to hold elections “as quickly as possible” to get the country out of its political crisis.
But leading Haitian civil society leaders have questioned .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/12/haitian-rights-advocates-reject-us-push-for-elections-this-year .. whether holding a vote later this year – a key demand from the UN and the United States, among other international actors – is possible amid the widespread insecurity.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/7/haiti-many-questions-few-answers-one-month-after-moise-killing
See also:
Yep, a history of invasion, exploitation "despotism and mismanagement, repression, more exploitation
(by domestic and foreign powers) more negative foreign interference. All as you know better than most.
P - This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘shithole’
P - President Trump's defenders don't know anything about Haiti's history — or the United States's.
[...]
As soon as Haiti was free, the world’s most powerful empires did everything they could to undermine it.
P - [As Republicans with Obamacare]
P - France refused to acknowledge the new nation existed. In the United States — then the only other independent country in the Americas — President Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, was uninterested in seeing a free black nation succeed nearby. The slaveholding powers refused to set up official trade with Haiti, forcing the country into predatory relationships. Haiti’s independence remained a cautionary tale U.S. slavers used to counter abolitionists until the Civil War.
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crossball, To the first one, screw Pat Robertson, as, as the article says at the bottom, irrespective of what 'Haiti deserved
the devastation as they had a pact with the devil' Robertson thinks about Trump's NE Syria gift to Putin, he and his fellow
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[...]
Guterres replaced two of his special representatives following complaints from host governments. In 2018, Guterres reassigned .. https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sga1803.doc.htm .. Susan Page, an American who headed the U.N. mission in Haiti, to a job at U.N. headquarters following protests .. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article202505404.html .. from the government that she had encouraged an investigation into government corruption.
[...]
But others have defended Guterres, noting that he has little power to prevent a country from rejecting the U.N. representative. They also noted that Guterres recently refused an effort by Cameroon to withdraw the U.N.’s top official there, Allegra Maria Del Pilar Baiocchi, after Cameroon threatened to expel her.
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"The problems in Haiti are somewhat intractable.
History there is a nightmare of despotism and mismanagement. What was once the crown jewel of France's colonial empire has been reduced to a basket case. The land on the Dominican side of the border is rich and productive. At one time so was Haiti, but two and a half centuries of environmental destruction have left it largely barren.
There's an invitation to failure in even trying to help, and yet we have an obligation as human beings"
Haiti has asked the UN to launch an international investigation into President Jovenel Moise’s assassination on July 7.
Haitian authorities say they have arrested 44 people in connection with the killing of President Jovenel
Moise at his home in the capital, Port-au-Prince, one month ago [File: Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters]
7 Aug 2021
The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/jovenel-moise-haiti-president-assassinated-at-age-53 .. in the early hours of July 7 sent shockwaves across the world, fuelling fears of worsening political instability .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/11/haitian-president-killing-fuels-escalating-fears-uncertainty .. and gang violence in the Caribbean nation.
But one month after a crew of armed mercenaries stormed Moise’s home .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-killed-in-attack-live .. in the capital, Port-au-Prince, myriad questions remain unanswered about what took place – and about what path forward Haiti should chart .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/11/haitian-president-killing-fuels-escalating-fears-uncertainty .
Keep reading
* Haiti: ‘If a president is killed in his own home, who is exempt?’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/22/haiti-if-a-president-is-killed-in-his-own-home-who-is-exempt
* In Pictures: Haiti prepares to bury its slain president
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/7/22/in-pictures-haiti-prepares-to-bury-its-slain-president
* Haiti arrests top security chief in Moise murder investigation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/haiti-arrests-top-security-chief-in-slain-president-investigation
* Haiti PM vows to work to hold elections ‘as quickly as possible’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/haiti-pm-vows-to-work-to-hold-elections-as-quickly-as-possible
“The country is still asking for answers,” Laurent Lamothe, who served as Haitian prime minister from 2012 to 2014, told Al Jazeera in an interview on Saturday.
“The country is still in shock. People are very upset. The information is slow to trickle in and everybody is asking the same question: Where are the masterminds, those who are responsible for financially paying for this horrendous operation?”
VIDEO
Haitian authorities say they have arrested 44 people in connection with the killing, including 12 Haitian police officers, 18 Colombians who were allegedly part of the mercenary team and two Americans of Haitian descent.
The head of Moise’s security detail is among those arrested .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/haiti-arrests-top-security-chief-in-slain-president-investigation .. in connection with the plot, but Jean Laguel Civil’s lawyer has said his client’s arrest was politically motivated.
On Thursday, the Haitian government requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation, saying that Haiti considered the attack an international crime due to the alleged role of foreigners in planning, financing and carrying it out.
“I hope that the UN is going to respond favourably because that’s the least that the UN can do for Haiti and the Caribbean,” Lamothe said, “remembering that Haiti is the first Black republic in the world and we deserve all the international cooperation to find out who killed the president.”
Meanwhile, the Haitian justice system has struggled to find a judge willing to probe the killing.
“It is a sensitive, political dossier. Before agreeing to investigate it, a judge thinks about his own safety and that of his family,” one judge told the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity this week. “For this reason, investigating magistrates are not too enthusiastic about accepting it.”
Several magistrates have told the dean of the Court of First Instance in Port-au-Prince that they are not interested in working on the assassination.
Senior magistrate Bernard Saint-Vil said he would announce on Thursday the name of the investigating magistrate chosen to take on the case, but in the end, he could not because no judge wanted the job.
VIDEO
What next?
Questions also continue to swirl about what comes next for Haiti, where residents recently expressed fears that Moise’s killing .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/22/haiti-if-a-president-is-killed-in-his-own-home-who-is-exempt .. “shows that no one is exempt” from the violence that surged during the president’s tenure.
The presidency of Moise, who took office in 2017, was marred by corruption allegations as well as mass protests .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/15/down-with-the-dictatorship-protests-continue-in-haiti .. after he refused to step down in February of this year despite opposition leaders, rights advocates and legal experts arguing that his term had expired.
The Haitian president had been governing by decree .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/28/what-is-happening-in-haiti-political-crisis-persists .. since January 2020 after parliamentary terms were left to expire, while several key government institutions were not functioning.
Moise also oversaw surging gang violence in Port-au-Prince .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/haitian-journalist-activist-killed-in-port-au-prince-shootings .. that left countless dead, displaced thousands, and spurred accusations from rights groups .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/15/haiti-thousands-displaced-as-gang-violence-insecurity-escalates .. that “the silence of the state authorities proves their total disinterest in the massive and systematic violations” of peoples’ rights.
Amid a lack of clarity and competing claims over who would take control after Moise’s killing, Haiti last month appointed .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/20/haiti-in-grips-of-political-crisis-swears-in-new-prime-minister .. a new interim prime minister, Ariel Henry. Henry has promised .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/haiti-pm-vows-to-work-to-hold-elections-as-quickly-as-possible .. to hold elections “as quickly as possible” to get the country out of its political crisis.
But leading Haitian civil society leaders have questioned .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/12/haitian-rights-advocates-reject-us-push-for-elections-this-year .. whether holding a vote later this year – a key demand from the UN and the United States, among other international actors – is possible amid the widespread insecurity.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/7/haiti-many-questions-few-answers-one-month-after-moise-killing
See also:
Yep, a history of invasion, exploitation "despotism and mismanagement, repression, more exploitation
(by domestic and foreign powers) more negative foreign interference. All as you know better than most.
P - This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘shithole’
P - President Trump's defenders don't know anything about Haiti's history — or the United States's.
[...]
As soon as Haiti was free, the world’s most powerful empires did everything they could to undermine it.
P - [As Republicans with Obamacare]
P - France refused to acknowledge the new nation existed. In the United States — then the only other independent country in the Americas — President Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, was uninterested in seeing a free black nation succeed nearby. The slaveholding powers refused to set up official trade with Haiti, forcing the country into predatory relationships. Haiti’s independence remained a cautionary tale U.S. slavers used to counter abolitionists until the Civil War.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149846454
crossball, To the first one, screw Pat Robertson, as, as the article says at the bottom, irrespective of what 'Haiti deserved
the devastation as they had a pact with the devil' Robertson thinks about Trump's NE Syria gift to Putin, he and his fellow
Bible devotees will always vote for Trump because they are prisoners of the 'gift from God' delusion as much as Trump is.
[...]
How Pat Robertson's Christian TV empire created a "shadow government" — and led to Donald Trump
[...]
Last week Donald Trump shared a message on Twitter from a racist conspiracy theorist proclaiming that he, the president, was viewed by Jewish people as the “Second Coming of God” and the “King of Israel.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=151925030
Big-Power Rivalries Hamstring Top U.N. Missions
[...]
Guterres replaced two of his special representatives following complaints from host governments. In 2018, Guterres reassigned .. https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sga1803.doc.htm .. Susan Page, an American who headed the U.N. mission in Haiti, to a job at U.N. headquarters following protests .. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article202505404.html .. from the government that she had encouraged an investigation into government corruption.
[...]
But others have defended Guterres, noting that he has little power to prevent a country from rejecting the U.N. representative. They also noted that Guterres recently refused an effort by Cameroon to withdraw the U.N.’s top official there, Allegra Maria Del Pilar Baiocchi, after Cameroon threatened to expel her.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157121948
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