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I got the following from the BayView; a nationally distributed newspaper based in San Francisco.

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by Wanda Sabir
Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Oct. 17, 2007, marks 201 years since the assassination of Haiti's founding father, General Jean Jacques Dessalines.

We want to take a moment and remember the general who said, "I want the assets of the country to be equitably divided," and for that he was assassinated.

Haitian attorney Marguerite Laurent said, "That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust, an organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic elite."

Feb. 29, 2004, marked the 33rd coup, and with the recent disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the sanctuary sought by so many others whose lives are at risk, plus the many Haitians still imprisoned without cause three years after Rene Préval's presidency, the people's resistance continues against an oppressive Western interest supported by the current Haitian government, a government approved of by the United States, France, Canada, the United Nations' security forces and Haiti's bourgeois elite.

Laurent continues: "In the context of Dessalines' legacy, ideals and laws, Préval's Sept. 26, 2007, U.N. speech was an embarrassment.

It was a display of fawning, ingratiating scraping and cow-towing over those foreigners and blan-peyi Haitians who are annihilating Dessalines' legacy.

Linda, November 11 2007, 1:40 AM

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