The dictator Jovenel Moïse has spent most of his presidential mandate giving into criminal abuses of all kinds, as part of his program to transform Haiti into a mafia state. Together with the Congress people and Senators of the PHTK, Bald-Headed, ruling party, they developed a strategy to delay elections, causing no renewal of the mandates of the legislators.
New York, mercredi 23 décembre 2020 ((rezonodwes.com))–With less than 50 days remaining to his constitutional man date of February 7, 2021 fast approaching, Jovenel Moïse is digging in his heels, getting himself deeper into his contradictory, illegal, and unconstitutional decisions, without the slightest concern for the reaction of the Haitian people. Hiding his head in the sand, he pretends not to hear or understand the howls from almost all sectors of society calling for change, so they can enjoy the fruits of democracy.
Therefore, more and more, there are calls for « dechoukage, » literally uprooting what is there. In vogue are sentiments of reprisals and public vindictiveness, particularly in the many circles where citizens have been victimized by his criminal excesses. Nearly the entire nation is preparing an assault on the National Pa -lace as the day for his departure approaches. Jovenel Moïse has spent most of his presidential mandate giving into criminal abuses of all kinds, as part of his program to transform Haiti into a mafia state. Together with the Congress people and Senators of the PHTK, Bald-Headed, ruling party, they developed a strategy to delay elections, causing no renewal of the mandates of the legislators. Whereupon he rubbed his hands in contentment on the second Monday of January 2020, noting, he said, the « lap -se of Parliament. » But to complete his plan, he robbed 10 Senators of two years of their six-year term, making the Upper Chamber totally dysfunctional. Having achieved his objective, he took over all affairs of the country, running the Republic by decree.
Due to his repeated violation of the Constitution, the country rose as one to demand his departure from the National Palace. He was judged not only as being incompetent to carry out his presidential duties to the satisfaction of the nation, but also, and above all, to have proved himself a rogue politician, in the strongest sense of the word. By his decisions and actions, Jovenel Moïse unquestionably has confirmed the worst accusations leveled at him by credible sources. There’s no forgetting that when he was sworn in on February 7, 2017, he was under indictment for money laundering. Thus, denunciations from almost all quarters that he was elected to the highest post in the land under false pretenses!
Indeed, as it is for all elected presidents, Mr. Moïse swore to respect and uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. But he has violated his oath in every way imagined, having repeatedly committed reprehensible acts. First, is his complicity with senior officials of previous administrations in the embezzlement and misappropriation of the $4.2 billion PetroCaribe Fund. Above all, this is a betrayal of the Haitian people, especially of the most deprived in society. For this wasted colossal fortune, properly invested, could have alleviated the misery of the nation.
However, all went to private companies link ed to the government and influential personalities close to the Executive. Guess how many roads, agricultural infrastructure, hospitals, and schools could have been financed with this money! A few white-collar criminals defraud ed a population of more than 11 million. Currently, with the coronavirus pandemic affecting the whole planet, our country included, this highlights how the $4.2 billion would have come handy at such a time when hospitals are woefully short. In that light, one can understand the grudge of the majority of the citizens toward President Moïse, the First Family and their acolytes in relation to the vast conspiracy orchestrated against the Haitian people by these teams of official criminals who have taken Haiti hostage.
As far as crime is concerned, the PHTK regime led by The Banana Man has broken all records, in all fields. Regarding blood crimes, the president has transformed Haiti into a vast slaughterhouse, with the residents of the shantytowns, especially in the surroundings of the capital, experiencing the brunt of them. To a lesser extent, the other cities and towns are also victimized. When armed gangs beholden to the National Palace and other members of the ruling regime carry out raids in La Saline, Cité Soleil, Bel-Air, Carrefour-Feuilles, Grand Ravine, from Del -mas 2 to 5, etc., victims are numbered in the hundreds. At La Saline alone, fol-lowing the « state massacre » attributed to Fednel Monchéry and Joseph Pierre-Richard Duplan, at least 71 people were murdered. The first of the two was the Departmental Director of the West when the massacre was perpetrated, and the second was Director General of the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities. The actual killing was carried out by Jimmy Chérizier, alias Barbecue, a former police officer expelled from the Haitian National Police for criminal activities.
To orchestrate the bloody attack on La Saline, Chérizier had benefited from the support of the police institution, with armored vehicles put at his disposal. Based on reports by two human rights organizations, the National Net -work for the Defense of Haitian Rights (RNDDH) and Fondasyon Je Klere(FJK), more than 71 people were mas-sacred, including women and young children, in addition to several women being raped. Some of their bodies were fed to pigs while others were thrown on piles of garbage and set afire.
While the crimes committed in La Saline since November 2018 have caused an uproar in the Haitian press, both at home and abroad, they have not received much attention abroad. Even though an investigation conducted by the United Nations human rights unit corroborated the revelations made by RNDDH and FJK, the international community has given little coverage to these crimes.
It should also be noted that raids of the kind carried out in La Saline by armed gangs led by Chérizier have occurred in recent weeks in Bel-Air and Delmas 2 to 5, also resulting in deaths, injuries, and burned houses. Not only have the police and judicial authorities not responded to the calls for help from the residents of these neighborhoods, but the perpetrators of these crimes are still at large. The families of the victims have not received a word of sympathy from the authorities. Still, these criminal attacks have received no coverage in the international press, having been passed over in almost total indifference by the international community. Yet, the CORE Group, composed of the ambassadors of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, the European Union (EU), the representative of the UN Secretary General and that of the Organization of Ame -rican States (OAS)) endorsed Moïse’s policies. When, at times, they timidly allude to these crimes, the diplomats use an apologetic tone, not wanting to offend their Haitian “friends” in high places.
As if all these massacres were not enough, a series of individual assassinations ordered by the ruling power have taken place, without their perpetrators being apprehended. Under unusual pressure from international quarters, there have been some arrests at least in the assassination of lawyer Monferrier Dorval, the president of the Bar Association of Port-au-Prince. However, we have learned from reliable sources that steps are underway to have them released before January 1, 2021. New identify is being given to some and the Immigration Service has been ordered to cooperate in facilitating urgent delivery of new passports to them.
We can then categorically say that the entire country is preparing a general uprising against Jovenel Moïse and his clique. Whatever he and his close collaborators may say and do, they should know that the Haitian people are waiting impatiently for February 7, 2021 at the latest, for them to vacate the nation-al premises. It would be even wiser on their part to empty them well before that time. For Haitians are so angry with him and his regime, there’s no predicting what they can do.
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