The United States is reportedly building a base for Kenyan mercenary death squads to intervene in Haiti, despite the lack of an elected government in Haiti to authorize such an intervention, making the move illegal. The situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate, with rampant gang violence in Port-au-Prince, exacerbated by the influx of weapons from the U.S., which has weak gun laws.
Brutal story about the gang violence in Port-au-Prince and the fact that the U.S., with its weak gun laws, is the leading supplier of weapons to Haitian gangs. https://t.co/bpqNOWXoXv https://t.co/09VkzmilE5
The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric. https://t.co/d1LuGOr1Iy
.#Haiti just keeps getting grimmer, as the gangs demand to be allowed to go on killing Haitians as they feel like it. This isn't even a narcostate kleptocracy, this is just Hobbesian chaos continually fuelled by criminals. https://t.co/QGhqN5NH4i
Look at the language this NPR reporter uses. Poor Haitians who have weapons to defend themselves from foreign invaders are “gangs” and the foreign invaders are a “security mission.” A textbook example of manufacturing consent for war. Also, the Kenyans are paramilitary death… https://t.co/qFB8lAVpgc
The US is building a base for the Kenyan mercenary death squads it's paying to invade Haiti. This is totally illegal as Haiti has no elected government to invite an intervention. The "rules based order" in action. https://t.co/dRggCqyhvC
The US is building a base for the Kenyan mercenary death squads its's paying to invade Haiti. This is totally illegal as Haiti has no elected government to invite an intervention. The "rules based order" in action. https://t.co/dRggCqyhvC
"This is not about gangs, this is about the US establishing a permanent military presence in Haiti" WATCH @grosmorne29 w/ @Blacks4Peace discuss how the US is ramping up for an armed invasion of Haiti, led by Kenyan forces: https://t.co/b3BNMOczHH https://t.co/78B9cHMEJy