France must pay back Haiti $22 billion independence debt

http://www.ipetitio ns.com/petition/ restitution4hait i/
22/11/08

Please sign our on-line Petition demanding France pay Haiti back the $22 billion independence debt

At the battle of Vertieres, the African-Haitian warriors in Haiti beat Napoleon armies and General Jean Jacques Dessalines would then set down the law of the land - that no Frenchmen shall ever set foot again on African-Haitian soil as proprietor and owner. "I want the assets of the country to be equitably divided" - Jean Jacques Dessalines and for that noble desire, two years later, in 1806, the Mulatto sons of France left in Haiti assassinated Jean Jacques Dessalines and his name was forbidden to be spoken for almost 42-years of their reign in early Haitian history.

Financial, ecclesiastical neocolonialism, buttress by the French embezzlement of an endless Independence Debt (1825 to 1947) had begun in Haiti with the assassination of Haiti's founding father, the first foreign-influence coup d'etat. The struggle for the masses to bring Dessalines equitable society into application continued... and in 1990, the people of Haiti finally succeeded in electing their own President and lessening the grip of the Protestant and Catholic oppressors to make room for the Kreyol language and Vodun spiritual and healing system, but these same old forces would unseat the Haitian people's choice and reinstate themselves and their Christian missionaries, perverted Catholic pedophile priests and so-called educators and NGOs back in place in Haiti. All, with the intention of destroying Haiti's Vodun culture, independence and peoples. There was a respite in 1994 with the Clinton return of President Aristide to office for just one year, but the forces of evil and intolerance did not go away and the return wasn't without untenable non-Haitianist compromises.

In 2004, 200-years after Haiti's independence, for the first time, in the annals of Haitian history, French soldiers with the military help of Canada and the US, landed again in Haiti to disenfranchise Haiti's masses once again with another coup d'etat against President Aristide. The first thing the French soldiers did, upon landing in Haiti in full military gear, was go up to the mountain top at Vertieres where the African-Haitian ancestors had beaten them more than 200-years before, in combat and stand there, proclaiming to the starve-through- endless-IMF- free-trade- imposition- Haitians, that they were RECLAIMING their colony and a new VICTORY. Reportedly, some of these French soldiers that came with Bush Regime change, even went to a few old plantation sites in the North of Haiti, pushed the Haitian peasants off the land, at gun point, and re-claimed the area for their heretofore beaten slave-owning French foreparents. This happened in 2004 behind the mask of Bush Regime change, ousting President Aristide in order to bring human rights and good governance to Haiti!!!! And also, in 2004, Haitians died alone, fighting the return of Rochambeau's dogs through Bush Regime change, UN occupation and World Bank neoliberal privatization and endless debt policies that are the causes of the food crisis, and weak state of governance, right now in Haiti. AND, Between 2004 and 2006, these forces murdered some 14,000 to 20,000 Haitians.... None of these perishing Haitians will die in vain, just as no matter France's current illusions because of the support it gets from the Franco-phony Haitian rich, Vertieres shall never be undone. Ayisyen Ginen, we've metastasized back on August 14, 1791. There's no cure for France, or any other tyrant in Haiti looking to undo African-Haitian existence and Vodun culture. Nou led, nou la. Our mobilization has always been stronger than military arms, NGO or missionary tyranny.

Honoring the Revolutionary war veterans of Haiti, honoring our Ginen Ancestors and remembering those Haitians who lost their lives fighting against this current Euro/US occupation of Haiti, in 2004 HLLN stepped up and committed never to forget these injustices, to keep them alive and to NEVER stop demanding that France pay back the $22 billion dollar Independence Debt it forced an isolated Haiti, with no military allies, to pay before it would formally stop trying to put its people back into slavery and recognize their independence. President Jean Bertrand Aristide was the first and only Haitian president to ever demand repayment of this money. This is one of the prime reason for France's participation in the 2004 coup d'etat. The Franco-phony Haitian, Gerald Latortue, whom Bush appointed as Prime Minister in Haiti after their schock and awe coup-kidnapping, assured France that the debt was VOID. We wrote then as now, NOT SO. Latortue was not legally
competent to denounce the $22Billion debt owed by France to Haiti.