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| Wednesday, February 7, 2007 |
| End the Occupation of Haiti |
The International Action Center encourages all activists to support this important demonstration, called by the New York chapter of the Lavalas Family party, the Haiti Support Network (HSN), and the Haitian Coalition to Support the Struggle of the Haitian People (KAKOLA):
Wednesday
Feb 7
2 pm
Ralph Bunche Park
corner of 43rd Street and First Ave
Haitians Will Demonstrate at UN Headquarters on Feb. 7
Against the UN Occupation of Haiti
On Wednesday, February 7 from 2 p.m to 7 p.m., Haitians and their supporters will rally in Ralph Bunche Park across First Avenue from United Nations headquarters in Manhattan to demand an end to the UN military occupation of Haiti, the release of all political prisoners in Haitian jails, and the return to Haiti of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide from exile in South Africa.
The demonstration will take place on the 21st anniversary of the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. The protest will also coincide with the UN Security Council’s deliberations on whether to continue the UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti or MINUSTAH, whose mandate expires on February 15, 2007.
The action is being called and organized by a coalition of Haitian organizations that includes the New York chapter of the Lavalas Family party, the Haiti Support Network (HSN), and the Haitian Coalition to Support the Struggle of the Haitian People (KAKOLA).
Hundreds of political prisoners arrested during the 2004-2006 coup d’état in Haiti remain behind bars, most without any charges against them. Meanwhile, the government of President René Préval and Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis has made no statements nor taken any measures that would indicate its desire to facilitate Aristide’s return to Haiti, which Washington and Paris oppose. Aristide and his wife Mildred were kidnaped from their home in Port-au-Prince by U.S. Special Forces on February 29, 2004 and flown into exile in Africa. Canadian, French and U.S. troops then militarily occupied Haiti until June 1, 2004 when the MINUSTAH took over.
“The Haitian people elected Préval on February 7, 2006 to end the occupation, free the political prisoners and return President Aristide,” said the HSN’s Berthony Dupont. “ Instead, one year later, we see the policies and realities of the coup d’état regime are still in place. The Préval government and U.N. cannot continue to thumb their nose at the will of the Haitian people.”
Demonstrations with demands similar to that in New York will be held on or around February 7 in about 35 other cities in 15 countries, including Haiti. A broad array of human rights and political organizations in Haiti and internationally has endorsed a call for coordinated actions on February 7th, which they have dubbed the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Haiti.
Ralph Bunche Park is located at the corner of 43rd Street and First Avenue. |
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