HomeBy Dady CheryWhen Will MINUSTAH Leave Haiti?

UPDATE #4, June 25, 2019. The United Nations will establish yet another acronym mission in Haiti, called BINUH (Bureau intégré des Nations Unies en Haïti, or United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti), for an initial period of 12 months. Its job will be to counsel the supposed Haitian government on how to govern and enforce stability and the rule of law, and support this government in the areas of elections, policing, human rights, prison oversight, and justice reform. Between the lines, it is easy to read that the only way to enforce stability with police, prisons, and elections, in a situation that is untenable, is to abuse human rights and fix elections. As concerns human rights, it will be challenging for the UN to top its record cholera infections, rapes, and massacres. As for elections: the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2015 featured a zombie vote of 70 percent, and the UN, which controlled the ballot boxes, was satisfied.

By Dady Chery

Haiti Chery

A reevaluation of the withdrawal of the United Nations (de)Stabilization Mission, MINUSTAH, from Haiti was discussed at a September 16, 2015 meeting of the United Nations Security Council. This was a working meeting of the 15-member UNSC. The permanent members were China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States; the non-permanent members were Angola, Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithunia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, and Venezuela. They were joined by the ambassadors of the MINUSTAH troop contributor countries: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Jordan, and Indonesia.

This meeting had been announced on September 2 at the presentation of the September 2015 program by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Mr. Vitaly Churkin, who had just assumed the rotating presidency of the UNSC.

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Haiti’s UN- and US-installed President, Michel Martelly, and his Ambassador to the UN, Denis Régis, had asked the UNSC to reassess its October 2014 decision to withdraw, within a year, one half of the UN troops from the country. These troops had become superfluous, since the UN and the US private military and security company (PMSC) DynCorp had trained a local force of more than 14,000 paramilitary police; in addition, Ecuador had trained an army loyal only to Martelly. Nevertheless, the regime begged the UNSC to prolong MINUSTAH’s stay until after the installation of a new regime in February 2016. It warned that there would be an electoral crisis even as it incited one jointly with the UN Development Program (UNDP), which financed the 2015 electoral debacle. The UN General Assembly had already allocated $399.19 million to MINUSTAH for July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. The retention of more UN troops would require additional funds.

Haiti no longer appears to be the comfortable venue where MINUSTAH member countries could practice warfare, without risk, on an unsuspecting population. Indeed, the country seems to have become quite dangerous for high- and low-level police and military. A Vietnam war veteran and supposedly retired diaspora Boston police officer, Yves Dambreville, was shot dead in Port-au-Prince on August 23, 2015. One week later, the MINUSTAH commander, the Brazilian Lieutenant General, José Luiz Jaborandy Jr., died, presumably while on an airplane to Brazil. Killings of members of the UN- and DynCorp-trained police, like the fatal shooting of the Brigade d’Intervention Motorisée’s, Pierre Borgelon, by so-called bandits on October 7, 2015, have become commonplace.

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About 500 Argentinian soldiers left Haiti in spring 2015. Although the Argentinian withdrawal began as its politicians’ rhetoric heated up against oil drilling in the Malvinas/Falklands, it was also less than two weeks after a MINUSTAH soldier, the Chilean Sergeant, Rodrigo Sanhueza, was shot dead in a moving vehicle on April 13, 2015 by what appeared to be Haitian snipers. Haiti, which enjoyed the lowest crime rate in the Caribbean before MINUSTAH’s arrival in June 2004 to serve as a Praetorian Guard for US-installed regimes, is now brimming with weapons. The new Cacos do not even have to buy their own. As an example, on August 4, 2015, in broad daylight, seven Haitians disarmed two members of an army post in El Embalse, Pedernales, of their M16 assault rifles.


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No press release immediately followed the UNSC September 16, 2015 meeting about Haiti and, for a while, Martelly’s move appeared to have failed. On October 8, however, Sandra Honore, the head of the UN mission in Haiti, read the following recommendation at the UN from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:

“I recommend that the Security Council extends MINUSTAH’s mandate for an additional year, may be the last, until October 15, 2016, while maintaining the currently authorized personnel of 2,370 troops and 2,601 police officers.”

Mrs. Honore said MINUSTAH would help the country to maintain order during the October 25 elections. It is unclear where the money has come to support MINUSTAH for another year without halving the number of troops as previous planned. One may be sure that the cost of renting Haiti is piling up for the US in advance of its November 2016 presidential election.

Regardless of all this, MINUSTAH should soon go. As Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in The Prince:

“The fact is, [mercenaries] have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe….”

UPDATES

UPDATE #1, March 23, 2017. Do not be fooled by the UN’s recent fielding of the idea that it would withdraw from Haiti by removing its 2,370 troops from the country by October 2017. First of all, since the mission was supposed to end by April 2017, an October departure means an extension and renewal of the mission. Secondly, the occupying UN force in 2016-17 includes 6,470 people. The removal of fewer than this number, even as a withdrawal is claimed, is nothing but a subterfuge. The invading force called MINUSTAH is comprised of 1,500 supposed civilian officials who are also called “military experts,” plus 2,370 soldiers, and 2,600 police. The UN oversaw and got its crooked 2015-17 Haiti elections, it is well past the time for it to go.

Canada is the main source of a political push for an indefinite continuation of a supposed UN police force in Haiti, no doubt to oversee its intended theft of the country’s copper, silver, and gold mines. These police are militarized and indistinguishable from the troops. The UN now hides the origins of its invading soldiers for every occupied country, but we know that the following countries contributed their soldiers to the MINUSTAH police in 2015 and probably still do: Canada, Croatia, Lithuniua, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain; Bangladesh (cholera), India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal (cholera), Pakistan, Philippines, Vanuatu; Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal; Egypt , Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen; Grenada, Jamaica. One wonders why these countries should want to serve as a Praetorian guard in Haiti. If one of these is your country, demand a full withdrawal.

Member of the Nigerian battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) stand guard in front of the National Palace after demonstrators, celebrating the birthday of the former President, take to the streets. 15/Jul/2008. UN Photo/Logan Abassi. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

UPDATE #2, June 20, 2017. In a continuing joke on Haitians, MINUSTAH will soon be replaced by MINUJUSTH, a smaller group of blue-capped paramilitary police that will maintain the occupation of the Haitian territory and work to exterminate from it all patriotic fervor. The JU in the acronym stands for the justice part of “United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti,” presumably because the UN has been such a paragon of justice. The plan is to repurpose the mission, from a purely destructive force, to a nation building agency, as in any other pacified former war zone. The reconstruction of the Haitian State, now a free for all, will be strictly for the benefit of the international community. Bill and Hillary Clinton have not lost their grip on the country: quite the contrary. Today the UNSC announced that Haiti’s next Special UN Envoy will be Josette Sheeran. Ms Sheeran is a puppet-master in training: a globalist member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), who has been a Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum at Davos, protégé of the Bushes, and buddy of the Clintons. She comes to Haiti with work experience in finance for Wall Street, writing for the mainstream media, running big NGOs, reconstructing Afghanistan, and advising on Puerto Rico. She was the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, under Condoleeza Rice, when the US dumped subsidized rice on Haiti to destroy the local agriculture. With Sheeran in charge as the new Governor General, why bother with a US Ambassador to Haiti?

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UPDATE #3, April 16, 2019.  According to Resolution 2466 of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on April 12, 2019, the Chapter VII occupation of Haiti, currently known as MINUJUSTH, will end on October 15, 2019. A special political UN mission will follow, the details of which will be defined within 30 days. According to the US Mission to the UN, the “transition will mean a significant handover of responsibility back into the hands of the Haitian government and its people.” We shall see about that. Unsurprisingly, none of the supposedly Haitian-loving NGOs have cheered this news, since their incomes have so long depended on the continued misery of Haitians. Instead, they whine about a supposed insecurity, hoping to extend the military occupation, when they really ought to pay more attention to packing their bags.

Sources: Haiti Chery (English version) | Dady Chery is the author of We Have Dared to Be Free: Haiti’s Struggle Against Occupation. | This article has been translated into Portuguese by Murilo Leme | Photographs one, two, four, five, and six from United Nations Photo archive; three by Alex Proimos.

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