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US wants ‘non-UN’ mission for another intervention in Haiti

Wednesday, 19 October 2022 3:05 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 19 October 2022 3:43 AM ]

Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Chicago

Washington is poised to spearhead yet another military intervention in protest-wracked Haiti, and will even propose a “non-United Nations” mission to do so.

Anti-government protesters have become routinely labelled “gang members” in the Western mainstream media. However, many say that such a negative characterization aims to smooth Western public opinion for the use of force in Haiti yet again.

Haitian instability escalated following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise by Columbian mercenaries. Western mainstream media have reported that several of the assassins worked alongside US intelligence groups. Haitian media accuses Washington of hiding evidence to keep its role in the murder a mystery.

Haitian civil society groups have emphatically rejected the prime minister’s call for foreign intervention. There is also widespread denunciation for the West, which continues to back the government despite its decision to indefinitely postpone elections and a constitutional referendum.

Many protesters have called upon Beijing and Moscow to use their UN Security Council veto to reject an official United Nations mission. In 2010 UN peacekeepers caused an outbreak of cholera which killed 10,000 Haitians and infected nearly 1 million, with sexual assault scandals commonplace.

For over two centuries Haitian sovereignty has been regularly subjugated first by France, and then by the United States.

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