Angry demonstrators demand Sarkozy to pay up and return Aristide to Haiti

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Angry demonstrators demand Sarkozy to pay up and return Aristide to Haiti

by Kevin Pina

Port au Prince, Haiti - HIP — Thousands of supporters of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide took to the streets on Wednesday as French president Nicolas Sarkozy toured the earthquake ravaged capital of Port au Prince. Holding pictures of the ousted president aloft they chanted for France to pay more then 21 billion dollars in restitution and reparations and to return Aristide as Sarkozy's helicopter landed near Haiti's quake damaged national palace. Their demands stem from a long held dispute over compensation a nascent Haiti was forced to pay French slave owners in exchange for recognition of their independence and France's role in ousting Aristide in 2004.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/2_18_10/2_18_10.html

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• earthquake
• haiti
• sarkozy
• aristide
• preval
• reparations
• restitution
• slavery
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[nadoop]

CNN's job is to subtly perpetuate the idea that Haitian's have a corruption gene and therefore are utterly incapable of self-governance and self-determination.

So we need the false benevolence movement to "save" us via occupation, murder, and rape.

I hear "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere" every other minute, yet the presstitutes refuse to explain to the intellectually lazy majority WHY my beloved country is so poor.

It's a cute little neocolonial tactic. I don't like.

[nadoop]

maybe they know who's on his side? the haitian government is ignoring them, as they sleep in the streets and starve? don't hate on democracy. let it be. perhpaps you'd be calling for him too if you were there. long live grassroots democracy. long live lavalas.

[KepherRa]

If the pro-Aristid people are so "violent" why didnt they attack those helicopters that was bringing in Sarkozy. . . and Why is it that whenever I see an anti-Aristide video the "demonstrators" are also yelling "long live America" . . . this type of fake ass artificial journalism is the same shit going on in Africa for the ultimate conquest of not only our people's land(s) but our minds.

[jackarf1]

lol I love hearing Rene Civil on top of the bus shouting throw the microphone. A real militant for haiti. JPP!!! Baz, pa sispann goumen pou peyi nou anr tande.

[nadoop]

I was a little girl - only 9 yrs old when Bush Sr. coup-knapped Aristide nearly 20 yrs ago, and my family would travel to DC to protest with thousands of other Haitians for his return.

These days are over, however. Aside for a few groups here and there, we seem to have been defeated. No?

The same phuckers responsible for keeping Haiti mired in a cycle of abject poverty and misery via coups, sanctions, economic isolation, and neo-liberal terrorism are now posing as saviors. It's sick.

[aidahwedo]

Why are Haitians so insistent on Aristide's return? Why have they been so resolute in their opposition to the coup and the subsequent U.S./U.N. occupation? Answering these questions requires a close look at what actually occurred during the years of democratic rule in Haiti.

We Will Not Forget: The Achievements of Lavalas in Haiti is a 16-page pamphlet. It highlights the most significant Lavalas accomplishments in areas such as healthcare, education, political democracy and economic justice.

[MichG60]

They are so obsessed with Tid Tid. What can he really do that the Haitian Government isn't already doing?

[geordany11]

They wont show this on cnn.

[webbrotha]

Black Power!