In defense of Aristide


By IRA KURZBAN
ira@kkwt.law.com
The Haitian government has issued a diplomatic passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This is long overdue; Aristide has wanted to return ever since he was forced into exile in 2004.

There is no justification for him not to; he is a Haitian citizen, charged with no crime; and the Haitian constitution explicitly prohibits compulsory political exile. Aristide, The N ew York Times noted during his first exile (1991-1994), “won Haiti’s first and only democratic election overwhelmingly,” followed by a “seven-month tenure [that] was marked by fewer human-rights violations and fewer boat people than any comparable period in modern Haitian history.”

He wants to return home, as a private citizen, and assist in Haiti’s relief effort. He has repeatedly said since 2004 that he wishes to return home to work in the field of education. His two Ph.D.s – one in psychology and the other in African languages – and his history, including seven years teaching in South Africa and the establishment of a medical school and university at the Aristide Foundation are testament to his long involvement in education.

The ball is now in South Africa’s court. Even though Aristide has every right to return under Haitian and international law, documents recently revealed by Wikileaks show that the U.S. and the Brazilian governments have pressured the South African government to keep Aristide there. The United States imposes its will, as the most powerful nation on Earth, to keep in distant exile the deposed president of one of the weakest. Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, meanwhile, walks free, gives press conferences and makes ceremonial visits around Haiti.

The return of Duvalier – accompanied by former death squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain as his security chief – to Haiti last month revealed the stark double standard in U.S.-Haitian relations, one that harkens back to a shameful era, when the U.S. government propped up the brutal Duvalier regimes for decades. The danger is not only from his impunity, but from the threat of a re-legitimization of Duvalierism. Haiti now stands on the verge of a precipice; an extreme right-wing political turn – one that openly favors the rich and despises the poor – lies below.

The U.S. government is not a neutral spectator to this situation – this is clear from Obama-administration statements more opposed to the idea of Aristide’s return than to Duvalier’s ongoing presence. Even worse, the United States has been pressuring the Haitian authorities into arbitrarily allowing kompa singer Michel Martelly (who is known to have supported Duvalier in the past, and who got the support of just 4.5 percent of registered voters) to proceed to an elections run-off against former first lady Mirlande Manigat (who received 6.4 percent support from registered voters).

Considering what is known of the right-wing proclivities of each, this could be akin to Haiti’s equivalent of a presidential race between an unpopular Republican and an unpopular tea tarty candidate, with no Democrat allowed to compete. Contrary to last week’s media reports, however, the electoral authorities have not yet made a final decision on the elections runoff. It has now emerged that only half of the Electoral Council members actually signed onto the statement announcing Martelly’s advancement; a majority is required.

Ultimately, it is the right of the Haitian people – a right enshrined in Haiti’s constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – to decide their own political destiny. New first-round elections, including Fanmi Lavalas and all eligible parties this time, are the only democratic way forward. Aristide should also be allowed to return to Haiti. No foreign power – whether the U.S., South Africa, or others – has the right to impede his return. Contrary to what the State Department appears to suggest, by reversing a grave violation of constitutional order when Aristide was ousted, democracy will be strengthened when he comes back, not weakened.

Ira Kurzban was the former general counsel for the government of the Republic of Haiti from 1991 to 2004. He is currently representing former President Aristide.
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Men ki sa brezilyen gentan gen la.koulyè ya yo se enperyalist tou.Se pousa lè ti neg te konn ap pale ameriken mal an ayiti mwen te toujou di yo tout lot pep yo se menm enperyalist la yo vle retire nan men ameriken pou yo ranplase li.Mwen sonje lè mwen te konn ap li Le printemps de prague se bagay saa ki fè mwen pat janm kwen nan oken vye ideyoloji utopik.Jodya se gouvenman swa disan pwogresis o brezil ki pa vle yon sitoyen ayisyen retounen nan peyi li. se sou gouvenman Barack Obama ke pot pawol depatman deta ap di ke yo pa vle Aristide tounen lakay li kom si genyen moun ki ta ka di ke Georges bush pa dwe viv O texas.Men sa ki pi ekeran nan bagay saa se Hillary Clinton ki Sekretè deta zafè etranje o Zeta Zuni jodya.Genyen yon moun ki konn di ke demokrat ak Repibliken se 2 fas menm ipokrizi se pa manti.

Pou ki tout bri?

Pou ki tout panik sa yo? Ata yon ti pè, yo pè!?

Lavi a se yon boul k ap woule, ann kite l woule. De tout fason, kit Jèvilen vle, kit li pa vle, sote ponpe, tout jan, se lanmou ak lapè ki va triyonfe.

Ayiti pou pitit li, pitit Ayiti pou Ayiti!

Rozo gen yon seri de dokiman inpotan pou Aristide signen ke li poko fe!!
Gen nan dokiman sa yo ki tre kritikal ki kap mete prezidan nan yon move sitiyasyon.

Signen ke se pa kidnape ke yo te kidnape'l men se fose ke yo te fose'l kap mete kredibilite Aristide nan yon move pozisyon.
Si li fe sa, li te met voye liv memwar li ya jete.

Pou zafe Brezil la!! Li se yon grand pwissans nan zonn nan! E li ap exzese dwa'l, komanse sou Ayiti.
Li kap memm choute deye Cuba ou byen Venezuela si Ameriken mande'l pou fe sa.

Kidonk lè swa disan revolutyonè pakotiy bresilyen yo te konn ap pale ameriken mal se te plas esklav de mezon an ke yo te vle.Ti tonton boss jwanis lan ou tande se wmen ki te genyen rezon.(lol)

men eske presidan Sud Afriken genyen dwa anpeche Presidan Aristide kite lafrik di sid sil pa vle siyen dokiman sa yo; ki kou ki te kondane presidan Aristide.Se fout ekeran pou wè genyen esklav de mezon sa yo toujou ki ap dirije peyi afriken yo.

Wozo poze tande zanmi! Èske ou verifye koze Revelasyon ap pale la yo?

Anvan ou kouri akize mesye yo, verifye se â koze kredi yo lage nan lari a pou kreye plis konfizyon ak pale anpil tande.

Sila yo ki gen "ti-pè" yo a ann Afrik yo, kè kal, yo konnen jou a pre rive. Poze!

Rekonsilyasyon nasyonal enplikan le retour de tou lè zexzile politik ayisyen sinonIm de stabilite politik an Ayiti.

Se sur la baz de la stabilite politik, nou pral mete devlopman ekonomik, devlopman sosyal, ... chita.

Sè zavanse, ô konbyen pozitiv, pa o goû de nonbreu peyi manbr koalisyon pour okupe Ayiti.

Lokupasyon DAYITI konstitu LA POUL O ZEU DOR pour lè peyi eyan lèur reprezantan o sen de la koalisyon.



A defo rekonsilyasyon nasyonal la, lenstabilite politik konstant pourè fèr la par bèl a la Komunote Entèrnasyonal pou kontinue enpoze enfluans li nan peyi a.

Retour exzile politik yo pou rekonsilye Ayiti afole tout pwisans swa-dizan peyi ami ki te vle mentnu le statu kwo. Divize pou rEnye.

Sè dèrnye tan nou konstate :

Komunote Entèrnasyonal tans gouvèrnman Préval/Bellerive ki pozisyone yo an favèur le retour dè exzile politik ayisyen. Desisyon gouvèrnman ayisyen an " tend à faire de l'ombre à des puissances comme les Etats-Unis, le Brésil, le Canada, la France, ... présentes sur le terrain".

Enterê yo menase !!!

Se sa Komunote Entèrnasyonal konnen, ki fè peyi sa yo, pa vle ARISTIDE tounen !!!


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