Haiti, Political

Haiti’s Leaders Indifferent To The Kidnapping Of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

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Today marks the one year anniversary of the abduction and disappearance of human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine in Haiti. Mr. Pierre-Antoine is the coordinator of the September 30th Foundation that works for victims rights in Haiti. He was abducted August 12, 2007 after meeting with a human rights delegation from the U.S. and Canada and has not been heard from since. Although Lovinsky’s abductors attempted to make it appear as a kidnapping for ransom, it is now widely believed his disappearance was politically motivated.

It has been sometime since the public has heard from Lovinsky’s wife and family. What follows is the complete translated text of a letter originally written in French by Michèle Pierre-Antoine,to mark this day, the one year anniversary of the abduction and disappearance of her husband, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.

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Haiti’s Occupation: Case Study Of Relentless Persecutions

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By Max A. Joseph, Jr

It is patently absurd for anyone to think that Haiti, a country with a non-existent industrial base and a primitive political structure, can be assimilated within the global economy without the social dislocations that are tailor-made for revolutions. Truth be told, those who persist in taking this course are either guilty of shortsightedness or blatantly engaging in the willful destruction of the country.

I have read the U.N Charter, and nowhere does it stipulate that a sovereign country has to belong to the organization. As things stand now, it is embarrassing or inappropriate for a powerless little country like Haiti to be in it, since its basic rights as a member were arbitrarily revoked under the Security Council Resolution 1529.

Appropriately, the best course of action for Haiti is to withdraw from the U.N and establish bilateral relations with friendly countries. While such course of action does not guarantee prosperity and stability, it will however spare Haiti the ignominies associated with being a member of the United Nations. Case in point Chapter 1, Article 2(7) states that “Nothing in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter”, yet the Security Council, exercising its absolute power as guarantor of peace and security in the world, mandated the occupation of Haiti on February 29 2004.

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