Gerard Pierre-Charles, May 10, 2004. "Beware That Liberation Movement Not Be Newly Misdirected or Cut off".
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Key excerpts:
Haiti then entered a new stage in its history. But the momentum of the democratic renewal that the historic consensus of January 1 and 2 had sought to implement in the hard struggle of the people against despotism was, one more time, misdirected, even thwarted.
In the meantime, a multinational military force had arrived in the country. It had been publicly requested from the United Nations by Mr. Aristide in his fear of being overthrown by the grassroots movement and in his obsession to stay in the palace no matter what. The request for it was renewed by the newly-appointed president. The purpose was to short-circuit the unprecedented progress toward a consensus and the historic determination of the Haitian nation, in its struggle against ignominy, to forge unity among the diverse progressive sectors toward a true liberation.
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Nancy Roc, January 6, 2008
Haïti bilan 2007 : la quadrature du cercle ?
Exclusive Translation by Haiti Democracy Project: Break Out of the Vicious Circle
This is also the same community that kept us in 2004 from finding our way to a new social contract as it intervened in Haiti, cutting the ground from under a mobilized civil society and also, even more unfortunately, transporting Aristide to other bases from which he still poisons our existence. The Group of 184 has retired and put its social contract in the closet, abandoning the common good of a society which it had rallied in almost all its components.