“We Are Being Exterminated”
Recording of Caribbean Dialogue and Haiti Action Committee online event: “In The Crucible – Haitian Women Share Their Stories.”
We urge you to hear the voices of grassroots Haitian women calling for international solidarity and an end to deadly terrorist death squad violence. They describe the dire situation women face in Haiti and the work of their organizations to resist, mobilize and support women in their communities. Please watch and share the recording widely. https://haitisolidarity.net/in-the-crucible-four-haitian-women-share-their-stories/
“We are being exterminated,” women said as they describe the prolonged suffering, deadly violence and terror, widespread rape, torture and kidnappings, burning of homes, schools and businesses, displacement, escalating prices, lack of food, water, medicine, and work brought about by death squads tied to right-wing sectors of the government and Haitian elite. And armed with weapons imported from the US and Dominican Republic.
“Children are growing up in an environment in which they have nothing,” they said. “What happened to Eliana Telemaque [the Haitian mother who died of a broken-heart after she was forced to watch her two-month old infant be burned alive by death squads] is emblematic of what women throughout Haiti are enduring.”
In an earlier International Women’s Day statement released by the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti, women wrote:
“Our children cannot go to school, they are burning down our homes, schools, hospitals, pharmacies and laboratories. We condemn how in 2004, the US, France, Canada and other countries were quick to send forces to Haiti when there was none of this chaos. We see where they have brought Haiti after 21 years of occupation, when they overthrew a popular and democratic government…We are asking for international solidarity to prosecute the criminals, who are financing the gangs in Haiti. We must expose these thieves wherever we find them in Haiti and abroad. We also condemn the US and the Dominican Republic for supplying all the weapons and ammunition that are terrorizing the Haitian people.”
What Can You Do?
Keep informed about upcoming Haiti solidarity events and actions at www.haitisolidarity.net and https://www.facebook.com/HaitiActionCommittee
We urge you to contribute to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund which is standing with the Haitian grassroots movement as it provides support to a population under daily attack and as it continues to develop and sustain programs to build a new, just and democratic Haiti.
