France increases aid to Haiti to 30 millions euros for 2009

The French Secretary of State for Human Rights, Rama Yade announced in a press conference in Washington on Tuesday that France will increase its total aid to Haiti to 30 million euros (40 million dollars) for 2009.

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[beenn15]

@Mariposa1Kamikaze Boyer had no choice but to pay... France threatened to enslave and kill as many haitians as possible at the time.

It's like saying Japan shouldn't have surrendered during WWII... They had no choice.

[sankofa669]

@Rockstafeller Haitian history is everywhere, especially today with the internet. Those who are interested in Haiti can find the history. You will not here the true cause of our suffering as a people on tv because the people who control these tv networks will never tell the truth about anything. If after Jan. 12, 2010 Haitians don' t "union fait la force", I don't know when they will ever unite for a greater good.

[Rockstafeller]

@sankofa669 Exactly, do people even know about this? I have never heard ppl on TV saying even ONCE that Haiti's economic problems have their roots in revolution

[sankofa669]

@Mariposa1Kamikaze Haiti paying reparation to France was like a rape victim paying the rapist to leave her alone. A mother paying the killer of her son for the kill. A victim of robbery paying the robber for what they stole. How did Jean Pierre Boyer ever agreed to such bullshit? If Dessaline and Christophe were around in 1825 that would not have happened.

[afrisimo]

"My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Dominque (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block forever the march of the blacks in the world."

--Napoleon Bonaparte

[jaalexis2002]

S'ils ont pu payer tous ces argents a la France, ou sont les infrastructures, il faut quand meme un changement d'atitude du cote des Haitiens. Moi je suis creole et fier comme les Haitiens, il y a des nations creolophone partout dans le monde, des pays independants. Je repete qu'il faut penser a l'avenir. Certes la France a un devoir moral vers les Haitiens. La France aide beaucoup de pays dans le monde et ont n'est peut pas nier. En conclusion Haiti a besoin beaucoup de changement que l'argent

[prolifique86]

30 milliards et non 3 milliards et encore il suffit de 4.5 milliards de dollars pour developper Haiti d'après les etudes qui ont été menées...donc c'est insensé ce que tu racontes

[jaalexis2002]

Haiti et La Louisiane etait francais et les americains ont aussi paye a la france. Haiti etait le territoire le plus riche de l'hemisphere nord. Qu'a fait les Haitiens avec leurs heritage. Est ce que tu pense que 3 milliards de dollars va changer le situation en Haiti. 1947 a 2009 plus de 60 ans est plus que assez a refaire, se developper, pour sortir de la misere. Tout de meme je pense que la France a une obligation morale vers Haiti, il faut penser a l'avant pas le passer pour bouger.

[Mariposa1Kamikaze]

So this is the reason why many Haitians are still bitter towards France. They don´t hate individuals for being French, but they would like to have an official excuse instead of charity.

In fact, it should have been France paying reparations to Haiti (and not vice-versa) back in the 1900s, for having uprooted and enslaved its population from Africa. It was a crime against humanity. Haiti´s slaves fighting for their freedom were doing nothing but defending their basic rights.

[Mariposa1Kamikaze]

Unfortunately Haitian president Boyer agreed to pay, which was one of the biggest mistakes ever made in Haitian history. The young republic was already isolated and shunned by all its neighbours for being the first nation founded by former slaves. Additionally, the payment of this "independance debt", had a fatal impact on Haiti´s economy during the 19th century.

Adding some corrupt government to that, you have the reason why Haiti is still among the poorest countries today.