Click here for a new article that sums up Canada's odious role in Haiti's 2004 coup and the brutal dictatorship that followed. http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will publish this five-page article in The CCPA Monitor (April 2010). Here are the article's introduction and conclusion, as well as links to its ten 400-word sections: A Very Canadian Coup in Haiti: The Top 10 Ways Canada Aided the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror By Richard Sanders Things went from bad to worse after Canada's Liberal government helped plan and carry out the 2004 regime change that illegally ousted President Aristide's democratically-elected government. Canada then helped empower and entrench an illegal coup-installed puppet regime that launched a reign of terror in which thousands of prodemocracy supporters were executed, jailed without charge, driven into hiding, or exiled. This Canadian-financed dictatorship, propped up by UN-sanctioned occupation forces, was applauded by corporations greedy to profit from "reconstruction" contracts, the privatisation of public services, and the wage-slavery of Haitian sweatshops. Canada has a lot to answer for. Click the links below to read about each of 10 main ways that our government contributed to this major travesty of justice in Haiti: (1) Creating the Coup's Ideological Pretext http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#1 (2) Initiating the Planning Process http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#2 (3) Providing Military Troops and Equipment http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#3 (4) Funding, Training and Commanding the Police http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#4 (5) Using Every Trick in the Diplomatic Book http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#5 (6) Supporting Destructive Economic Policies http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#6 (7) Using Aid as a Weapon http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#7 (8) Imposing an Illegal "Justice" System http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#8 (9) Funding and Whitewashing Unfair Elections http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#9 (10) Helping Corporations Profit from Haitian Poverty http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm#10 The Moral of the Story Don't believe the lies your government tells you when it goes to war, or helps overthrow another government. Most Canadians have no idea that Canada was instrumental in overthrowing Haiti's democratically-elected government in 2004. Some Canadian peace, human rights and development groups continue to spread government propaganda that presents Canada's odious role in Haiti's regime change as if it was a "humanitarian intervention" that promoted justice and democracy. Such official Canadian myths hide the brutal atrocities of Haiti's post-coup occupation behind the narrative facade of "peacekeeping," "failed states" and the "right to protect." Because Canadian progressives have not successfully countered these myths about Haiti, the proud revolutionary people of that country have been forced to endure further humiliation, violence, injustice and exploitation. It's time we set the record straight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Sanders is coordinator of Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT), and editor of its magazine, Press for Conversion! The article summarises the material in four 50-page issues of COAT's magazine: Lies without Borders: How CIDA-funded 'NGOs' waged a propaganda war to justify Haiti's 2004 Coup http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/63/63.htm Putting the Aid in Aiding and Abetting: CIDA's Canadian Agents of Regime Change in Haiti's 2004 Coup http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/62/62-TOC.htm CIDA's Key Role in Haiti's 2004 Coup: Funding Regime Change, Dictatorship and Human Rights Atrocities, one Haitian 'NGO' at a Time http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/61/61-TOC.htm A Very Canadian Coup in Haiti: The Top 10 Ways that Canada's Government Helped the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/60/60.htm Hard copies of these four back issues can be ordered online. http://coat.ncf.ca/support_us/support_us.htm
