Haitians Take to the Streets to Denounce Foreign Interference
By teleSUR
05 October 19
The demonstration started in the morning near the capital's air terminal and
headed towards UN facilities in Port Prince; the protesters demanded the
mediation of the international organization to make president Jovenel Moise
resign.
everaSl locals demonstrated against international community´s interference,
this Friday throughout street of Prince Port. They considered this mediation
is what keeps in power, president Jovenel Moise.
Despite some specific confrontations by some activists with the Police,
protests developed under a peaceful environment in comparison to other
violent acts that took place two weeks ago.
"We are going to the United Nations facilities to ask them to stop
interfering in the internal affairs of the country," Rony Timothée, an
opposition member, told EFE.
The demonstration came four days after the Core Group, which brings together
UN and diplomats from several countries, held meetings with opposition
groups, to try to mediate the serious political crisis that has kept Haiti
without an effective government since last March.
Equipped with posters and hostile songs against the president and the
international community, demonstrators said they were determined to stay on
the streets until Moise resigned.
The march started in the morning at the airport and went to the UN office,
in the Clercine area, near the capital's air terminal. Throughout the road,
there was burning of tires and throwing stones and bottles at the police by
some protesters, while the agents used tear gas.
Several opposition leaders such as Senators Evalière Beauplan, Nenel Cassis,
Ricard Pierre and political activist Assad Volcy participated and went to
the headquarters of the UN mission to send a spoken and written message.
"You have 24 hours to decide the fate of Jovenel Moise. No diplomatic
mission can tell us what to do. We do not recognize diplomats asking for
negotiations. Time has passed," said Beauplan.
Recently, the Core Group, composed by the special representative of the
United Nations secretary-general in Haiti, ambassadors of Brazil, Canada,
France, Germany, Spain, European Union, United States, and the special
representative of the OAS, have met with the political agents involved in
the crisis in Haiti.
The opposition letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio
Guterres, requested that the organization give its full support to the
Haitian people, who only want the president's resignation.
He also requested that the UN support the organization of the national
conference and trials for the corruption case involving Petrocaribe and for
the massacres of La Saline, Carrefour Feuilles and Tokyo.
"The country is on the verge of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. We
see on the horizon the spectrum of a huge explosion, like a roaring stream
capable of taking everything in its path," says the note, which draws the
UN's attention to the "explosive" situation in Haiti.
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