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The corrupt US/UN-backed Boca Raton regime robbing Haiti blind: pillage and plunder – gold, bronze cannons, emeralds stolen (article in French & English) | The rigged Legislative elections in Haiti |
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Date: 29 April 2006 ************************************************* – Bronze cannons, gold and emerald pieces stolen at certain sites in Ile-à-Vaches: A representative of Sub Sea Research company confirms that these thefts would have never occurred without the complicity of the interim regime, Port au Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) French: Canons en bronze et pièces en or et émeraude volés dans des sites sous-mains de l’Ile-à-Vaches:Un responsable de la compagnie Sub Sea Research affirme que ces vols n’auraient jamais pu être commis sans la complicité de membres du regime intérimaire, Port-au-Prince, 27 avril 2006- (AHP) *** – The General Director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy struck by the announcement of the plunder at the sea-beds of Ile-à-Vaches27 April 2006 (AHP) FRENCH: Le directeur général du Bureau des Mines et de l’Energie sidéré par l’annonce de pillages dans les fonds marins de l’Ile-à-Viache |Port-au-Prince, 27 avril 2006- (AHP) *** – The rigged Legislative elections in Haiti: Protests, denunciations and grumbling after the results of the second round of elections on April 21 (AHP) – NGO representatives and UNICEF representatives to evaluate the needs of Cité Soleil residents, 26 April 2006 (AHP) ========================== * Bronze cannons, gold and emerald pieces stolen at certain sites in Ile-à-Vaches: A representative of Sub Sea Research company confirms that these thefts would have never occurred without the complicity of the interim regime * Port au Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) – The co-manager of the American company Sub Sea Research LLC, Greg Brooks, who signed a contract with the Haitian state to carry out underwater research in the region of Ile-à-Vaches, denounced on Thursday the theft of 4 bronze canons at the research site. The theft occurred, he said, in November, when he and other members of his team were in the United States carrying out rescue operations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “Some individuals brought the canons, which can be worth up to 2-million dollars each, on a boat to Panama,” said Mr. Brooks, underlining the fact that the theft couldn’t have occurred without the knowledge of the interim regime. He highlighted the fact that a representative of that government, a certain Ernest Wilson, was present at the research site during that time. According to Greg Brooks, Wilson had asked technicians working for Sub Sea Research not to inform the public of the results of their underwater discoveries. Brooks also confirmed that a witness had filmed the plundering of the cannons that were intended for Panama and eventually Canada. Gold and emerald plaques were also stolen, he said. The representative of this American company explained to us that the interim government cancelled the contract signed in 2003, while forcing it to initial a new document with the provisional Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Culture. At the same time, Mr. Brooks continued, “a new company, Caribbean Marine, directed by the historian Jean-Claude Fignolé entered the picture, even though it didn’t have the appropriate equipment for this type of work.” On the eve of the coming to power of a new government, Greg Brooks says that the members of his team are now being asked to leave the country. “We’re not going to leave, because if we leave, the pieces that we’ve found and handed over to the interim regime will take the same route as the cannons,” he stated, adding that all light must be shed on the case of the stolen pieces. Mr. Brooks also accuses the current regime of not having respected the terms of the contract that was signed, according to which Sub Sea Research should have received 50% of the sales of the found pieces. “If we have invested 4-million dollars in the context of our underwater research, we haven’t received anything on our end,” Greg Brooks continued to complain. ************************************************** Canons en bronze et pièces en or et émeraude volés dans des sites sous-mains de l’Ile-à-Vaches:Un responsable de la compagnie Sub Sea Research affirme que ces vols n’auraient jamais pu être commis sans la complicité de membres du regime intérimaire Port-au-Prince, 27 avril 2006- (AHP)- Le co-manager de la compagnie américaine Sub Sea Research LLC, Greg Brooks qui a signé un contrat avec l’Etat haïtien pour effectuer des recherches sous-marines dans la région de l’Ile-à-vâches a dénoncé jeudi le vol de 4 canons en bronze sur les sites des recherches. Le pillage a été commis, a-t-il dit, en novembre, au moment où des membres de sa compagnie et lui-même se trouvaient aux Etats-Unis avec leur bateau pour porter secours aux victimes du cyclone katrina. “Des individus ont transporté à bord d’un bateau à Panama des canons pouvant coûter jusqu’à 2 millions de dollars chacun”, a dit M. Brooks, soulignant que ce vol n’aurait jamais pu être mis commis sans l’aval de membres du régime intérimaire. Il a souligné qu’un représentant du gouvernement, un certain Ernest Wilson, était toujours présent sur les sites des recherches. Selon Greg Brooks, Wilson aurait demandé aux techniciens de la Sub Sea Research de ne pas informer le public des résultats de leurs découvertes submaritimes. Brooks affirme aussi qu’un témoin a pu filmer l’opération de pillage des canons qui devraient ensuite être envoyés de Panama au Canada. Des plaques en or et en émeraude ont également été volées, a-t-il dit Le responsable de la compagnie américaine a expliqué que le gouvernement intérimaire a également annulé le contrat signé en 2003, tout en le contraignant à parapher un nouveau document avec le premier ministre provisoire, et le Ministère des finances sur du Ministère de la culture. Dans le même temps, “une nouvelle compagnie, la Caribbean marine, dirigée, a-t-il dit, par l’historien Jean-Claude fignolé” entrait en lice, quoiqu’elle ne dispose pas des équipements appropriés à ce type de travail. A la veille de l’entrée en fonction d’un nouveau gouvernement, Greg Broks affirme que les membres de sa compagnies sont sommés de quitter le pays. “ Nous n’allons pas partir, car si nous nous en allions, les pièces que nous avons trouvées et remises au régime intérimaire pourraient prendre le même chemin que les canons”, a-t-il fait savoir, ajoutant que toute la lumière devrait aussi être faite sur le dossier des pièces volées. M. Brooks accuse également le régime en place de n’avoir pas respecté les termes du contrat signé, selon lesquels la Sub Sea Research devraitt recevoir 50% de la vente des pièces trouvées. Si nous avons investi 4 millions de dollars dans le cadre ds recherches sous-marines, par coontre nous n’avons rien reçu”, s’est-encore plaint Greg Brooks. ************************************************** * The General Director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy struck by the announcement of the plunder at the sea-beds of Ile-à-Vaches * Port-au-Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) – The General Director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy, Dieuseul Anglade, said he was struck by information according to which goods belonging to the Haitian state where stolen from the sea-beds of Haiti. Mr. Anglade points out that he had found the contract relating to underwater research at the Ministry of Mines in April 2004. Judging that this contract held few advantages, his bureau began to work on the case in order to allow the Haitian state to draw more profits from the project he stated. The Bureau of Mines was seeking to increase the profits of the Haitian state from the 50% agreed upon before by the two parties to 55%. He confirmed his surprise when the dossier was suddenly taken from the Ministry of Mines in order to be signed over to the Ministry of Finance and Culture. “At the time we made a lot of noise about this change in order to inform the public that we wouldn’t be responsible for any eventual new developments,” he recalled further. He indicated that his position at the time brought him a lot of reprimands. The General Director of the Bureau of Mines says he regrets the absence of synergy between the various state entities that brought this case to the point where it is today. AHP, 27 April 2006 4:20 PM ********** Le directeur général du Bureau des Mines et de l’Energie sidéré par l’annonce de pillages dans les fonds marins de l’Ile-à-Viache Port-au-Prince, 27 avril 2006- (AHP)- Le directeur général du Bureau des Mines et de l’Energie, Dieuseul Anglade, s’est dit sidéré des informations selon lesquelles des biens appartenant à l’Etat haïtien ont été dérobés des fonds mains d’Haïti. M Anglade rappelle qu’il avait trouvé le contrat relatif aux recherches submarines au ministère des Mines en avril 2004. Jugeant que ce contrat était peu avantageux, non bureau avait commencé à travailler sur le dossier pour permettre à l’Etat haïtien d’en tirer le meilleur profit, a-t-il fait savoir, soulignant que le bureau des Mines était sur le point de faire passer les profits de l’Etat haïtien des 50% convenues antérieuement par les 2 parties à 55%. Il affirme avoir été surpris du fait que le dossier a été retire soudainement du Ministère des Mines pour être signé par les Ministères des Finances et de la Culture. “ Nous avions à l’époque fait grand bruit autour de ce changement pour informer l’opinion que nous ne serions responsables d’aucun éventuel nouveau développement”, a-t-il encore rappelé. Il indiqué que cettte prise de position lui avait valu à l’époque des réprimandes. Le directeur général du bureau des Mines, dit regretter que l’absence de synergie entre les diférentes entités de l’état ait conduit le dosssier où il en est aujourd’hui. AHP 27 avril 2006 4:20 PM ************************************************* Agence Haïtienne de Presse – AHP www.ahphaiti.org April 27, 2006 Protests, denunciations and grumbling after the results of the second round of elections on April 21 Port-au-Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) – The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has completed tabulating the results of the 21 April 2006 legislative elections, wherever they were held. 84 deputies out of 99 and 27 senators out of 30 were elected. According to unofficial results, the Platform of Hope (Lespwa) took the lead with 11 senators and 20 deputies elected. The Social Democrats elected 3 senators and 19 deputies, while The Alliance scored 1 senator and 14 deputies. Lavalas, many of whose cadres are still in exile, in prison or have gone into hiding for political reasons elected 3 senators and 5 deputies. There are still 15 deputy and 3 senator positions to be filled in ridings where the elections were disrupted. Many unsuccessful candidates contested the latest results this Thursday. This was the case with the Senate Candidate for the Fusion of Social Democrats Marie Dense Claude who denounced the massive fraud that were recorded at a number of voting centers in Port-au-Prince, according to her; in particular the fraud perpetrated at Building 2004 to the north of the capital where the residents of Cité Soleil voted. Ms. Claude asked the CEP to re-run the elections in this center and to proceed with a recount of all other voting centers where fraud was registered. Wouldi Simon, another Fusion candidate in Marchand Dessalines, denounced acts of brutality perpetrated against voters and officials by a candidate of the Artibonite in Action (LAA), a group headed by Youri Latortue, the nephew of the current interim Prime Minister. Wouldi Simon asked the CEP to cancel the elections in the 4th District of Marchand Dessaline where ballots were found in the city streets. Candidates and partisans of Fusion are also the objects of grave accusations themselves. In Desdunes in the Artibonite valley, an OPL candidate, Beaudelaire Noelsaint accused the Base 32 gang, which supports Fusion, of having mistreated and beaten with batons voters that belonged to the OPL – employing heavy weight to stop them from voting. He is calling on the CEP to cancel the results at this polling station. The National Coordinator of the OPL, Edgard Leblanc, has also denounced numerous cases of irregularities that were registered during April 21st. “This situation proves that it is only vagrants who must be going to the ballot boxes in Haiti,” threw out Edgard Leblanc. Another OPL candidate in the Bombardopolis/Baie-de-haine ridding, Vasco Thernelan also criticized the unfolding of the electoral processes in several regions of the country. According to Mr. Thernelan, the CEP itself committed serious breaches and errors in the voting process. One of the elected deputies of the Fusion of Social Democrats in the riding of Chambellan (Grande-Anse), Sorel Jacinthe, denounced on Thursday the threats he alleges have been directed against him by partisans of the KOREGA organization in the area. At the same time Sorel Jacinthe denied information according to which he had killed a person who’s body was later found in his car. According to Mr. Jacinth, the body was planted in his vehicle with the aim of accusing him. He asked that his persecutors leave him alone so that he can freely occupy himself with his work. The President of the Comunal Electoral Bureau of Ganthier, Pierre Wilhem, also announced that he had been the object of death threats from candidates of other political parties. Pierre Wilhem called on the relevant authorities, notably the CEP, to adopt adequate measures to avoid violence on the occasion of local elections. A number of corners are claiming that the results of the elections held on April 21 are cut to measure and were programmed in advance. They explained their opinion by citing the fact that candidates that finished in fifth or sixth place in the first round of elections oddly managed to with this round of elections. How else can one explain the fact that the legislative candidates of certain parties swept to victory while the presidential candidates of these same parties received scores of between 0.5 to 2% of the popular vote, they asked. AHP, 27 April 2006 1:45 PM ========================== * Bronze cannons, gold and emerald pieces stolen at certain sites in Ile-à-Vaches: A representative of Sub Sea Research company confirms that these thefts would have never occurred without the complicity of the interim regime * Port au Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) – The co-manager of the American company Sub Sea Research LLC, Greg Brooks, who signed a contract with the Haitian state to carry out underwater research in the region of Ile-à-Vaches, denounced on Thursday the theft of 4 bronze canons at the research site. The theft occurred, he said, in November, when he and other members of his team were in the United States carrying out rescue operations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “Some individuals brought the canons, which can be worth up to 2-million dollars each, on a boat to Panama,” said Mr. Brooks, underlining the fact that the theft couldn’t have occurred without the knowledge of the interim regime. He highlighted the fact that a representative of that government, a certain Ernest Wilson, was present at the research site during that time. According to Greg Brooks, Wilson had asked technicians working for Sub Sea Research not to inform the public of the results of their underwater discoveries. Brooks also confirmed that a witness had filmed the plundering of the cannons that were intended for Panama and eventually Canada. Gold and emerald plaques were also stolen, he said. The representative of this American company explained to us that the interim government cancelled the contract signed in 2003, while forcing it to initial a new document with the provisional Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Culture. At the same time, Mr. Brooks continued, “a new company, Caribbean Marine, directed by the historian Jean-Claude Fignolé entered the picture, even though it didn’t have the appropriate equipment for this type of work.” On the eve of the coming to power of a new government, Greg Brooks says that the members of his team are now being asked to leave the country. “We’re not going to leave, because if we leave, the pieces that we’ve found and handed over to the interim regime will take the same route as the cannons,” he stated, adding that all light must be shed on the case of the stolen pieces. Mr. Brooks also accuses the current regime of not having respected the terms of the contract that was signed, according to which Sub Sea Research should have received 50% of the sales of the found pieces. “If we have invested 4-million dollars in the context of our underwater research, we haven’t received anything on our end,” Greg Brooks continued to complain. ************************************************** * The General Director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy struck by the announcement of the plunder at the sea-beds of Ile-à-Vaches * Port-au-Prince, 27 April 2006 (AHP) – The General Director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy, Dieuseul Anglade, said he was struck by information according to which goods belonging to the Haitian state where stolen from the sea-beds of Haiti. Mr. Anglade points out that he had found the contract relating to underwater research at the Ministry of Mines in April 2004. Judging that this contract held few advantages, his bureau began to work on the case in order to allow the Haitian state to draw more profits from the project he stated. The Bureau of Mines was seeking to increase the profits of the Haitian state from the 50% agreed upon before by the two parties to 55%. He confirmed his surprise when the dossier was suddenly taken from the Ministry of Mines in order to be signed over to the Ministry of Finance and Culture. “At the time we made a lot of noise about this change in order to inform the public that we wouldn’t be responsible for any eventual new developments,” he recalled further. He indicated that his position at the time brought him a lot of reprimands. The General Director of the Bureau of Mines says he regrets the absence of synergy between the various state entities that brought this case to the point where it is today. AHP, 27 April 2006 4:20 PM ************************************************** ========================== * NGO representatives and UNICEF representatives to evaluate the needs of Cité Soleil residents * Port-au-Prince, 26 April 2006 (AHP) – A UN delegation comprised of representatives from various NGOs paid a humanitarian visit on Wednesday to the popular quarter of Cité Soleil. According to UNICEF’s representative in Haiti, Adriano Gonzalez Regueral, the object of this visit is to evaluate the needs of the population in this area in a number of realms. “It is a necessity for us to assist the residents of Cité Soleil, who are stagnating in filth,” declared M. Regueral, who is determined to help in relieving the suffering of this population. For his part, a representative of a Fanmi Lavalas reflection cell, John Joël Joseph, expressed his hope that the visit would help others better understand the difficult situation in which the population of Cité Soleil lives daily. He also expressed his hope that the members of the delegation would react quickly in favor of the residents in this commune who are frequently abandoned to fend for themselves. The shantytown of Cité Soleil was subjected to many acts of violence during these last two years. The different quarters of this shantytown – which represents the largest concentration of the electorate in metropolitan Port-au-Prince – were controlled by gang leaders (some of whom are alleged to have had ties to Lavalas, a number of sectors in the business world, and others to the old opposition movement against Aristide). Until the eve of the elections, a number of groups pressed MINUSTAH to intervene in a muscular way in the Cité under pretext that it was a bastion of kidnappers. However, the representatives of the UN mission opposed such actions this time, stating instead that the violence observed in Cité Soleil could best explained by looking at the misery and the subhuman conditions that its residents live in. AHP, 26 April 2006 3:05 PM ********************************* ***************************** Join HLLN’S MEDIA Campaign to expose the corrupt role of the UN, US, Canada, OAS, France, this international community’s (the “International Community”) culpable role in keeping in office, over the OBJECTIONS of the majority of Haiti’s peoples, at home and abroad, for more than TWO years now, and training and paying a puppet Haitian government with no popular mandate and massive human rights abuses and political repression. Stop UN, US, OAS, Canada, France’s hypocrisy. Their authorities are the ones holding the political prisoners in Haiti. They are coup d’etat countries with the UN as their proxy militarizing Haiti and fleecing it dry with their IMF/World Bank debts and foreign “free trade” multinationals exploiting Haiti’s access to the Windward Passage (Mole St Nicholas); oil (in La Gonave); uranium, iridium and goldmines in the Northeast, gas reserves Near Aquin and our State companies, ports and plentiful and cheap labor force. They are the RESPONDIAT SUPERIORS, not the puppet Latortue government or its corrupt and paid-off judges. Write to media urging them not to let the International Community pass the blame to their very employees – the Latortue death regime and its corrupt justice system. Demand that the mainstream media stop being false witnesses and turning a blind eye to the truth in Haiti: to the WHO holds the keys locking the political prisoners behind bars. It’s this INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY with UN soldiers as henchmen, wielding its defacto protectorate in Haiti, with Latortue regime, its foreign-trained Haitian technocrats as its proxy and “black face” in Haiti Demand that these coup d’etat implementers, FREE the people before giving back the reigns of government illegally held by the international community’s employees in Haiti. Demand that all contracts entered into under the illegal US regime’s reign must go to a national referendum placed before the people of Haiti and no backdoor structural adjustment economic plan be foisted on the people of Haiti, either through the outgoing coup d’etat regime, the contracts its illegally signed or through US/Euro false benevolence such as “debt forgiveness.” https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-04/msg00015.html – 3 Sample Letters for HLLN’s media campaign to protect the Feb 7th mandate, release political prisoners, release Haiti’s children from prison immediately https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-04/msg00002.html – HLLN’s Urgent Action Request to the UN/US/France/Canada – RELEASE THE POLITICAL PRISONERS before ceding Haiti back to a duly elected President and government! https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-04/msg00001.html Turning Haiti into a Penal Colony: The Systemic Criminalization of Young Black Males in Haiti by Haiti’s US-imposed Miami government parallels US habit of criminalizing Blacks in the US| Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent, November 3, 2005 www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/damocles.html ****************************** See, Urgent Media Alert: Media Disinformation Campaign Against Haiti by New York Times, LA Times, Miami Herald, Associated Press, – the mainstream media – EMBOLDENS the Washington Chimères and Haiti Democracy Project’s coup d’etat plans against Haiti even before Presitent-elect Renè Preval takes office! www.winterludes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14278#14278 HLLN’s Media Letter Writing Campaign: Stop Mainstream Media libelously railroading President Preval and the people of Haiti – Keep writing, denouncing these false accusations. https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-02/msg00027.html Letter to the New York Times from Hazel Ross-Robinson office https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-02/msg00028.html Why we cannot forget the past by Harry Comeau, A letter to Washington, Ottowa, Paris and the international media from a Haitian man https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-03/msg00000.html Letter’s to the Media – It’s the INTERNATIONAL EFFORT that has brought Haiti where it stands today. Stop these international LIES about Haiti, stop stealing and calling it “helping Haiti!” | Pouki sa lapres lang long fin dechennen kont pep Ayisyen an? | Plans to make Haiti a penal colony and officially placed under UN Protectorate proceeds.. https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-03/msg00002.html ******************************* We are collecting endorsers. Join the list of sponsors. Answer the call. Add your organization’s name to our list and call upon your friends and colleagues to endorse the FreeHaitiMovement. This would help make May 18, 2006 (and the two other upcoming Free Haiti Movement events, on Aug 14, 2006 to celebrate Bwa Kayiman, which begun the great Haitian Revolution, and Oct 17, 2006 the 200th anniversary of Dessaline’s death) a greater success. ANSWER THE CALL and support the current 2006 8-point Haiti Resolution www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/18_06pressrel.html and www.margueritelaurent.com/law/res2006.html * FREE THE POLITICAL PRISONERS: Sample letters for HLLN’S Media Campaign to Free Haitian children in prisons, Free the political prisoners, Protect the Feb. 7th vote| https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-04/msg00002.html ******************************* Men Anpil Chay Pa Lou! – Many Hands Make Light a Heavy Load! * To support HLLN?s work, please donate to the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network at www.margueritelaurent.com/donate/donate.html |
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