UN Policy in Haiti Rooted in Historical Precedents

In a clear and bold act of imperial and deviant paternalism, the Haiti Democracy Project was established at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC on November 19, 2002. Then-Assistant-Secretary General of OAS (Organization of the American States) Luigi Einaudi, presciently declared “ Haiti was fast approaching a point where diplomatic means would no longer contribute to solve the crisis”, a remark that drew little attention to the web of deceptions being weaved. Soon thereafter, a coalition of 184 civic organizations led by André Arpaid, a US-born industrialist, was created. That group played a critical role in bringing down Haiti’s democratically elected government through terroristic and other devious tactics that facilitated the February 29, 2004 invasion of the country and its occupation by U.N forces ever since.
Few people reacted with consternation in 2006, when Edwige Lalane advocated the physical elimination of 5% of the residents of Sité Solèy, pop.350.000. The former Haitian diplomat and member of the Haiti Democracy Project deemed these Haitians “incorrigible and uncontainable bandits.” Almost 5 years since his abhorrent statement and 7 years into the U.N occupation, it is insulting that this provocateur would position himself as a nationalist by calling Haiti “an occupied country.” Like many of his companions de route, this pseudo-intellectual had no clue of the intents and objectives of the Project, which were the institutionalization of the power of the Haitian elite and suppression of the people’s aspirations by legitimate force, the term used in ousting recalcitrant Third World leaders. Excluded from the group’s innermost deliberations, these absolute idiots nonetheless thought they were doing the Lord’s work. Hence, Lalane’s repositioning himself as a nationalist and advocate of good governance must be seen for what it is: the crocodile’s tears of a naïve and impenitent collaborator, not a mea culpa of a patriot.
In 1797 during the interregnum years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1803), which subsequently produced the only successful slave revolt in world history, the U.S city of Baltimore, Maryland, passed an ordinance declaring “all slaves imported from the West Indies between 1792 and 1797 to be "dangerous to the peace and welfare of the city" and ordering their masters to banish them. This particular ordinance, among many others, can be seen as the genesis of the modern-day notion of Haiti being “a threat to international peace and security”, an insulting characterization which the members of the intelligentsia generally supported with their silence on the occupation.
Today, Haiti is shattered under the weight of historical precedents, a burden trust upon her by the legacy of her fight to be free, as history reveals the unmistakable ties that bind her past and the present: an adulterous relationship between her disloyal children and the western world. As a Haitian saying goes “memm nan lanfè gen moun pa” to which the correct translation would be (even in Hell, one is certain to find a benefactor). In an interview with the Swiss newspaper “Le Temps” last December, Ricardo Seitenfus, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the OAS in Haiti, was contemptuous of the U.N occupation of the country, an offense for which he was unceremoniously fired.
Here are some of his comments: “The Haitians committed the unacceptable in 1804 (the year of their independence): a crime of lèse majesté for an anxious world. The West (was) then a colonial, slave-holding and racist world that based its wealth on the exploitation of conquered lands. So, the Haitian revolutionary model made the great powers afraid.” “Haiti is also paying the price for being so geographically near to the United States which waited until 1865 (sic,1863) to recognize its independence.” “The UN mission in Haiti is to freeze the government and to transform Haitians into prisoners of their own island.” These were not the quotes of a conspiracy theorist but an insider account of a high ranking diplomat who was privy of the most sensitive deliberations concerning Haiti within the group tasked to implement this newest attempt at a Final Solution to the Haitian problem. Nevertheless, the impenitent collaborators obediently follow the script, which explains the April, 2010 decision by Haiti’s illegal Parliament to surrender the government’s constitutional prerogatives to the foreign-dominated Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC).
Despite the thousands of deaths since 2004, excluding those of the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the unenviable status of “Most dependent independent nation in the world”, as articulated by Maura O'Connor, the imported cholera pandemic and possible end of Haiti as a nation-state, the political class and the intelligentsia steadfastly believe in the infallibility of the masters’ dubious experiment. Between Mother Nature’s expansive help (earthquakes, hurricanes and a dying ecosystem) and the obscurantism of its leaders, Haiti is indubitably headed toward a sad and undeserved fate. Ultimately millions of Haitians, at least the incorrigible and uncontainable bandits, could be eliminated or forced to emigrate to Africa, abandoning the land, bequeathed to them by their valiant ancestors, for their tormentors to enjoy and plunder.
Slavery, as an institution, may be buried deep inside the bins of history but its premises, subjugation and exploitation of so-defined “inferior peoples”, endure. Haiti’s situation is proof that more remain to be accomplished. As proud descendants of those who dealt the first blows to this ignoble and insane institution, it is incumbent upon us, Haitians, to finally eradicate it as a political philosophy or degenerate human behavior. Only then, we will be able to say proudly and unequivocally “Mission Accomplished.”