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Jan 1, 2013: Another Independence Day Under Occupation
by
Ezili Dantò of HLLN
Ours has been a long struggle. It started, 510 years ago in 1503 when
the first kidnapped African captives set chained foot on what is now
known as Haitian soil.
Back on Jan. 1, 1804, European/U.S. barbarity and savagery received
its greatest blow in the Western Hemisphere. We continue to face their
guns, greed, foreign germs and odious cruelties. But we also continue to
celebrate our victories, humanity and determination never to be as shallow
and violent as these enemies. Haitians have been stigmatized and forced to
pay with their lives and freedom for that achievement ever since.
Every Jan. 1st marks Haiti’s freedom day.
Oceans of our blood have poured and watered the soil to nourish
civilized co-existence on this planet Earth and continue, this very minute,
to soak the earth needlessly, simply because Haitians were the first to
counter, in combat, European/U.S. biological fatalism, destroy their myth
of white superiority and to do what even Spartacus could not.
How should Haitians mark this anniversary?
Who should we confer with about our awesome burden, our plight,
our long struggle to be treated as human beings by the European
"discoverers" and settlers? About the U.N. soldiers’ massacres, about the
US occupation of Haiti behind the UN front, about the US/Euro open-pit
mining for Haiti's $20 billion in gold in the time of UN-imported cholera;
about the savage disenfranchisement of the impoverished with USsupported
sham elections since 2004, about their feudal pillage masked as
humanitarian aid in Haiti, about $7.5 billion in earthquake dollars
collected that's been put in foreign pockets leaving practically no footprint
in Haiti, about the use of Haiti misery by the US/UN/NGOs to cash in,
about the arsonist and firemen role played by the fake humanitarians,
about the rapes of our women, importation of cholera that's killed 8000+
and infected 620,000+ innocent Haitians in two years and the repression of
Haiti’s defenseless poor? About the lies of the mainstream media and