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MORE than a dozen campaign organisations joined forces on Tuesday to denounce attempts to force an armed intervention on Haiti.
The 13 groups, which come together under the umbrella Zone of Peace Campaign, include Black Alliance for Peace, Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, Caribbean Organisation for People’s Empowerment and the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition.
The campaign argues that Western imperialists are trying to force an armed intervention on the people of Haiti and they slam the “collaboration” of regional institutions such as the Caricom economic bloc and the interference of the United States.
In a statement, the group said: “After months of the US, Core Group and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti, ex-de facto prime minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately held position.
“Those countries calling for military intervention have created the conditions making military intervention appear necessary and inevitable.
“Now, this same imperialist cabal wants to appoint a favourable ‘transitional government,’ without input from the Haitian people.
The statement also called on the Community of Latin American States (Celac) to stand firm to its recent declaration that any military action in Haiti “violates the principle of non-intervention and the respect of popular self-determination.
“We urge the Celac ‘troika’ of Honduras, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Colombia to stand firm against imperialist aggression and intervention,” the statement said.
The signatories said that in addition to rejecting “imperialist intervention and militarism,” they wanted to see more priority given in the region to a “people-centred human rights in the Americas by observing the principles of national sovereignty, equal rights and self-determination of peoples.”
The statement called on all progressive and revolutionary movements and organisations across the Americas to “support the sovereignty of the Haitian people, their right to self-determination” and to reject any military intervention into the Caribbean nation.
