Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
by Peter Hallward
December 15, 2007
haitianalysis.com

AHP News - May 29, 2006 - English translation (Unofficial)
The adherence to a policy of double standards constitutes a mortal danger to democracy and human rights
Any policy of double standards is a deadly poison acting against the birth of democracy or its reinforcement in a country.
In any country where law and justice have meaning, any abuse is an abuse, any violation of human rights is a violation of human rights and any criminal act is a criminal act, regardless of who commits them.
Unfortunately Haiti is one of the countries where the most notorious violators of human rights can be elevated to the ranks of heroes while someone who is guilty of theft or who is innocent altogether can be presented publicly as the most notorious criminal as long as such an act suits an agenda, as long as, you belong to a given social or political sector, as long as... whatever.
We have become accustomed to the indecent practice of preferring to create a lot of commotion and thereby transform a lie into the truth and to downplay evidence until we fall into our own trap...
And that is what happened to us in the elections of February 7, 2006. The majority of the population thwarted a sector in decline that believed it truly possessed all the power because it dominated the economic, political and judicial machinery from one end to the other, and on top of that, it controlled the propaganda machine.

AHP News, June 24 - English Translation (Unofficial)
UN Security Council gives MINUSTAH the power to hold security checks and to confirm current members and future recruits of the PNH
Port-au-Prince, June 24, 2005 (AHP)- The UN Security Council gave MINUSTAH the power to hold security checks and to confirm the current members and the future recruits of the national police.
This Security Council’s decision, which takes away from the Haitian government all control on Haitian police status and recruiting, was passed in resolution 1608.
In article 8 of this resolution, the Security Council asks that the transition government immediately ensures that no Haitian police officer can work if he does not have MINUSTAH’s agreement, and demands that the current regime takes notice, right now and on all levels, of the MINUSTAH’s advice and technical recommendations.

CBC’s "The Current," Broadcast August 6, 2004.

Adrian Harewood: Last March Canada and other countries sent peacekeepers to Haiti, after President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced into exile. Now, as some call for Aristide’s return, Canada is leaving Haiti…By this time next week Canada’s peacekeepers will be home from Haiti. The past five months, Canadian peacekeepers have been trying to restore stability to the troubled Caribbean nation. They’ve been part of a United States led contingent that went to Haiti after former Pres. JBA was forced out of the country in February amid mounting violence and opposition. This was the second time Canada has sent its armed forces to help Haiti. In fact, Ottawa prides itself on what it sees as a long history of support for the poorest nation in the hemisphere.

Walking a tightrope between hope and fear: Northern Haiti one year after the coup

by Sasha Kramer

On Feb. 22, 2004, the former military violently invaded Cap Haitien and the surrounding towns, killing police officers and organizers and burning public office buildings. Guy Philippe, a former soldier trained by the U.S. in Ecuador and accused of numerous human rights violations, acquired a building in downtown Cap Haitien that became the headquarters for his new political party FNP.

Agence Haitienne Presse [AHP] News - February 28, 2005 - English translation (Unofficial)
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Editorial: February 29, a troubling anniversary...
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Today marks practically one year since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
forced to leave the National Palace under pressure from certain countries in
the international community who claimed they were acting out of a desire to
avoid a blood bath in Haiti.

Canada and the UN are 'fronting' for U.S. foreign policy in Haiti

by Ken Rockburn and Kevin Pina

Host Ken Rockburn interviews Filmmaker and Haiti Correspondent Kevin Pina, aired nationally on "Canada's Political Channel,"CPAC, February 21, 2005.

Dear all,

The Haitian people can't continue to live in this
situation, illegal arrestation, assassinations every day,
misery, repression. Please, Haiti, cry Help! Find a
way to help this people who are senselessly dying.

Urgent action needed in Haiti: OAS president
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): North and Latin American nations must take urgent action to solve health problems in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas where 1,300 people have died in devastating floods, OAS Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez said Monday.