Unbelievably Haiti’s most popular recent leader and the person most responsible for pushing Haiti’s Pan African and Afrocentric thrust as a nation is again under duress by the political elite. Since the 21^st of August when heavily armed police with masks appeared in front of his house and were met by hundreds of his supporters the relationship between the authorities and the former President has been tense. But this is not because of President Aristide, it is because of the weakness and fear of the government that the Lavalas Movement which he started will return to power.

            Since his return from South Africa in 2011 where he was exiled, and while there mastered the Zulu language, President Aristide has been outside of politics, but once in Haiti he has been summoned to court four times. He has actually been building a medical school for Haiti. This has been his passion and his current mission.  Why would a nation use politically motivated legal cases to seize the power of its most important international citizen?   It is like shooting one’s self in the foot.

            Rather than embrace President Aristide, the first democratically elected leader of the country, the government, supported by the American government, has sought to harass and persecute him. In addition, thousands of Lavalas members have been killed, maimed, and imprisoned after the coup. Whose interests are served by the assaults on the reputation of Haiti’s great contemporary leader?

            Afrocentricity International goes on record against this agency reduction formation tactic, that is, this instant of the government of Haiti seeking to prevent the expansion and growth of freedom by persecuting the founder of Lavalas.  When President Aristide and his family returned home from exile it was thought by all peace-loving and freedom-loving people that Haiti had turned an ethical and political corner on the road to restoring prosperity and happiness. The President promised to work in education and to include all Haitians in the democratic process; this is what he did. He opened UNIFA, the Aristide Foundation’s university, which now has nearly 1000 students. Students are being trained in the professions of law, medicine, and nursing.  Let us celebrate not attempt to destroy the legacy of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 

            Afrocentricity International is urging all of its international chapters on every continent to support our call for the de-escalation of the attacks, legal and personal, on the Aristide family. There is no reason why the Haitian government should seek to permanently create crisis in the lives of the Aristides. We ask the Haitian people to continue to support justice, freedom, peace, and Maat!  Herekh! Herekh! President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.  Unity is our Aim; Victory is our Destiny!

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September 18, 2014