Amnesty International rejects Kenya’s plan to send police to Haiti over human rights concerns
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Various international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have rejected Kenya’s plan to send police to Haiti, raising several human rights concerns
Various international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have rejected Kenya’s plan to send police to Haiti, raising several human rights concerns.
Haitian people’s movements and rights organizations rejected and condemned the proposal, saying it will escalate the issues it seeks to solve.
The Frantz Fanon Foundation has strongly condemned the Kenyan intervention plan in Haiti.
It criticized the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states and some African states for joining the CORE group and the United Nations in taking armed action in Haiti.
“This military intervention is an attack on the right of the Haitian people to self-determination and sovereignty, and this institutional violence only reproduces the violence exercised by the former colonizers, including France, which forced the Haitian State to pay an illegitimate and illegal debt as the price of its freedom and independence, but also the United States and international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.
The project of this military intervention extends that of the former colonizers: to prevent by all means the emergence of the first black Republic,” condemned the Frantz Fanon Foundation.
“This intervention, presenting itself as a solution to the problems of Haitian society, will only renew the process at the origin of these same problems: the denial of the sovereignty of the Haitian people over their territory, their economy, and their institutions. Through the illegitimate and anti-Pan-African intervention of the Kenyan army, the imperialist states are using the African states to prolong their policy of racist domination over Haiti…Haiti has been and continues to be the laboratory of the oppression of African peoples throughout the world, on the continent, and in the Diaspora. Today it is Haiti, tomorrow it will be one of the CARICOM States, which have agreed to sign this military intervention project.
The Frantz Fanon Foundation strongly denounces this intervention and the instrumentalization of African states to serve the interests of imperialist states,” it added.
Likewise, on August 24, the Kenyan Revolutionary Socialist League in the International Socialist League also rejected Kenya’s offer to send police officers to Haiti to help local police restore order in the country.
On July 29, Kenyan Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Kenya is ready to deploy 1,000 police officers to help train and assist Haiti’s police to “restore normalcy in the country and protect strategic installations.”
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Kenya’s proposition came in response to the Henry government’s official request to the UN for international military assistance to fight criminal gangs.
However, Haitian civil society organizations and social movements strongly opposed the idea of allowing foreign troops in the country, citing severe issues caused by previous foreign military interventions in the country.
They also condemned the international community for supporting Henry, who assumed the office following the assassination of the previous de-facto president Jovenel Moïse and indefinitely postponed the long overdue presidential and legislative elections in 2021, citing gang violence as a pretext.
Following Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in July 2021, illegal armed gangs have been increasingly exerting control over the national territory, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
According to reports from various international organizations, violent gangs now control more than 80% of the capital and more than 50% of the national territory.
The increasing gang violence and incompetence of the authorities has led to a rise in vigilante justice.
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