U.S. Style Democracy in Haiti

“[The American-supported thugs] kidnapped [democratically elected president] Aristide. If they take Preval, we don't care if they come after us -- as we die, the country will be burned.”

Ronald Mombrin, Haitian citizen.

Manuel Roig-Franzia, “Quiet but Not Necessarily Calm in Haiti,” Washington Post, 2/07/06.

This petition demonstrates that the IGH, the United States, and the Dominican Republic violated the rights of the Haitian people through a long-term, systematic plan that included:

a) undermining the democractically elected Haitian government through a development-assistance embargo and by supporting both unarmed and armed opposition groups;

b) overthrowing the democratically election Haitian government and kidnapping its President in February 2004; and

c) replacing it with a government with no constitutional or electoral legitimacy.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Complaint regarding violations of the right to participate in representative government commited against [Names Withheld] and others, 2 February 2006.