Download a briefing on the Kenyan High Court's ruling against on the deployment of police to Haiti.
“Kenya has become a client state of the United States. They want to use Kenya, like they’ve already used other countries to fight in Iraq or Libya. Now they’re asking directly if we can send our police to do the job in Haiti. They always do it the same way. They make us appendages of imperialism. Haiti’s problem is an American creation. Now they’re coming to us.” — Gacheke Gachihi, Mathare Social Justice Centre, Nairobi
“Long live the solidarity of all African countries with Haiti!
Long live the solidarity of people the world over with Haiti!” — Haitian letter to the African Union
In 1804, the people of Haiti led a revolution that rocked the world, defeating the French colonizers, liberating the enslaved, and establishing the world’s first Black republic.
In the two centuries since, however, the Haitian Revolution has been brutally punished: with sanctions, invasions, occupations, and repeated regime change at the hands of Western powers.
Basic services have been paralyzed across the country. Demands for change by Haitian workers have been met with batons and gunfire. Criminal gangs and Western-backed paramilitaries terrorize the Haitian people.
Now, the United States is once again preparing a military intervention to protect its interests in Haiti — but this time, it is spending $200 million to launder its efforts through a “Multinational Security Support Mission” to be led by 1,000 Kenyan police who do not even speak the local language.
In other words, the United States is sending Africans to slaughter Afro-descendants 12,000 kilometers away — for a small price to be paid to Kenyan President William Ruto.
Kenya’s High Court has tried to block Kenya's role in the intervention, declaring it "unconstitutional, illegal and invalid."
But Kenya’s President William Ruto has vowed to ignore the Court's ruling and push ahead with the deployment with the full backing of the US State Department.
The only thing that can stop this heedless and violent cycle of intervention is a massive international movement, combining political forces from the grassroots to the global.
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AND JOIN POLITICAL PARTIES AND POPULAR MOVEMENTS FROM 14 COUNTRIES ON FOUR CONTINENTS IN DEFENSE OF HAITIAN SOVEREIGNTY
To:
President Joseph R. Biden, USA
President William Ruto, Kenya
Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Haiti
We are putting you on notice.
Hands off Haiti.
Hear from Kenya
"We believe that the decision to deploy Kenya's police officer to head the MSS Mission in Haiti is ill-advised, opportunistic and undermines the spirit of Pan-Africanism.” — Orange Democratic Movement
“We will fight in the streets of Nairobi for our brothers and sisters in Haiti… If they think they will just walk in and shoot some gangsters, they are naive – they don’t know Haiti’s history of resistance to imperialism.” — Communist Party of Kenya
“Any decision by any state organ or state officer to deploy police officers to Haiti … contravenes the constitution and the law, and is therefore unconstitutional, illegal and invalid.”
— Kenya High Court
Hear from Haiti
"A thousand policemen obviously cannot solve the issue of insecurity. In other words, the presence of those thousand policemen — in case they arrive in Haiti — would be to protect the leaders and institutions, not the Haitian people. This is clear.”
— Haitian Democratic Committee
"At a time when the popular masses are seeking ways to organize themselves, the criminal political agenda is simultaneously seeking ways to renew its power, with de facto President Ariel Henry receiving various types of support for holding fraudulent elections in the country." — National Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Fraternity
“We urge you to take a close look at our country's appalling situation, in order to understand it better and help us to overcome it, and above all to convince Kenya of the need not to allow itself to be dragged into the murderous logic of the imperialist powers bent on burying Haiti's sovereignty.” — Letter to the African Union