The United States is deploying Kenyan police to do its bidding in Haiti.
Progressive forces around the world stand against yet another military intervention.
Sign the statement. Stand against the latest US intervention in Haiti.
We, the undersigned, call on all peoples and nations of the world to stand against the latest US intervention in Haiti, which promises only to bring death and destruction to the people of Haiti and the Kenyan police sent to patrol them.
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, the Haitian Revolution has been brutally punished: with sanctions, invasions, and repeated regime change at the hands of Western powers.
Today, more than half of the Haitian population suffers from hunger. Basic services have been paralyzed across the country. And demands for change by Haitian workers have been met with batons and gunfire.
Now, the United States is once again preparing a military intervention to assert its control over Haiti. But this time, the US is paying to launder its invasion and occupation efforts through a “Multinational Security Support Mission” to be led by 1,000 Kenyan police.
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 the Kenyan President.
Kenya’s High Court has already ruled the intervention unconstitutional, but its government is determined to press ahead with the agenda.
The deployment of Kenyan police forces to this mission in Haiti would be an affront to the spirit of Pan-Africanism. It reflects the United States’ reliance on client states and proxies to do its bidding — a worrying trend that undermines security all around the globe. And it threatens to exacerbate the already-devastating conditions of life facing millions of Haitians.
That is why we are raising the alarm and calling on progressive forces around the world to join us in opposing this wanton intervention. Long live the solidarity of the world’s people with Haiti!
RESOURCES
The High Court of Kenya on the Extraterritorial Deployment of the Police
Download a briefing on the legal case underpinning Kenya's deployment of police on Haitian soil.
Zine: The Crisis of Haiti is a Crisis of Imperialism.
What is going on in Haiti? What is the history of foreign intervention in the country? And who rules Haiti today? Read the e-zine developed by the Black Alliance for Peace.
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
“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
“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
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
“How can a non-UN, multinational-armed force possibly intervene in a country, while guaranteeing its sovereignty and integrity? … The nation must be represented so the people can have maximum confidence in those called upon to shape its future and who are driven by the concern to protect it.”
Montana Accord
“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
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Black Alliance for Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. Through educational activities, organizing and movement support, organizations and individuals in the Alliance will work to oppose both militarized domestic state repression, and the policies of de-stabilization, subversion and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally. BAP says that Haiti is key to the liberation and transformation of the Americas region as part of the global anti-colonial revolutionary project and revolutionary Pan African movement. In recognition of this, one of the core demands of the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, launched by BAP and other orgs, is: “Oppose military intervention into Haiti: Support the people(s)-centered movement for democracy and self-determination”
Communist Party of Kenya
The Communist Party of Kenya is a political party committed to uniting all Kenyans irrespective of their ethnic groups, class, gender and age to work for an alternative society away from the present unjust system; towards a society that realises the freedoms, human rights and development of each and all. It is opposing Kenya's intervention in Haiti on behalf of the US.
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Black Alliance for Peace
Communist Party of Kenya
Congreso de los Pueblos
DSA International Committee
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party
Palestine Action US
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