Can we wish Happy New Year 2025 in Haiti?

Is it permissible to wish and dream of a better future for Haiti?

The metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince has a population of 2,700,000 in an area of about 40 km². How is such a small territory no longer controlled by our police and army? Nearly 60% are in the hands of gangs currently, after 4 years of accelerated decline, rarely are the necessary decisions taken! The northern, southern and eastern road accesses are blocked and controlled by the gangs. The international airport, which has been closed since November 11 after a plane came under fire, reopened at the end of December without being served by any airline. Container ships have also come under fire in 2024. Where are the investigations to find and punish the guilty? The gangs took us all prisoner in our capital!

If the strength of the Haitian National Police is still 16,000, there is 1 policeman for every 750 inhabitants. In France and the USA there is about 1 police officer for every 500 inhabitants, in Germany 1 for every 300 and in Spain 1 for every 200. El Salvador had to mobilize more than 10,000 soldiers and police to control armed gangs and imprisoned 75,000 bandits. We are far from that goal in Haiti. No adequate prisons, there is a lack of weapons and not enough staff! We are losing the gang war! The "bois kalé" will never be able to gain the lost territories, control and maintain them. It is a barbarous and blind revenge! There is no secret to winning the war, it is the business of the military, not the sporadic movements of hordes of civilian populations without adequate weapons. A massive effort is needed in men, weapons, ammunitions and equipment, otherwise we will be in a worse situation in 2025 and how can elections be held in this context. Chaos will spread to other parts of the country, other hospitals, schools, libraries, police stations, businesses, etc., will be looted and destroyed by the gangs as they are already doing. We will see more of our compatriots at the mercy of armed gangs. The latter, after all their crimes against the population, all classes combined, punishable by crimes against humanity, pushing cynicism to the extreme, have the nerve to transvestite themselves as a political party shamelessly!

Let no one come and talk to me about a conspiracy or that there are reserves of precious metals in the subsoil of the territories attacked by the gangs and that there are enemy powers ready to plunder them. Where are the leaders who would say NO to the plotters against our homeland? Professional mining is expensive, takes years to set up, and requires a climate of peace. Humans by nature are self-destructive and devastating. They are capable of the best and the worst!  Proof of this, we are destroying the planet we live on. If they are not supervised by laws and the forces of order, they indulge in chaos, raids and all kinds of crimes. We saw it when the hordes of barbarians rushed on the Roman Empire and destroyed it within a century! When there were blackouts in New York City, we saw the population engage in looting and destruction. The police, the army and the national guards had to be mobilized to control the situation. Similarly, when there are hurricanes in Florida, a curfew is declared, the National Guards and the army are called in to prevent looting, destruction and protect the population. How can we avoid looting, destruction and attacks on people in Haiti without a strong deterrent force, a functioning judicial and prison system?

Corrupt pseudo-politicians want to stir up troubles at the beginning of this year with the sole aim of claiming a bigger piece of the pie! Which pie? All that's left are crumbs filled with vermin! They do not even have the decency to be aware that in a state of war it is better to stick together to win the war first.

So, given these considerations, how can we wish a happy new year in Haiti in 2025? We should see first the efforts, the good decisions and the involvement of the qualified people we have but who are kept on the sidelines, we wonder why? Let us rather hope that the Holy Spirit who animates us all will prevail among our decision-makers.

Gregory Sicard 1/1/25

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Paru sur WhatsApp le 13 novembre 2024

Fellow Compatriots,
We are in delusion. Haiti is at war with gangs, we need war support not peace keeping! Ukraine and Israel are not asking for peace keeping from the UN but war support from their allies.
The Gladiator.

Paru sur WhatsApp et Facebook le 19 novembre 2024

SOS for Haïti. (English)

Dear compatriots, this morning, November 19, 2024, Port-au-Prince woke up to the threat of gangs being carried out. Indeed, the gangs have intensified their war against the country and its citizens by trying to infiltrate many neighborhoods in the early morning hidden in well-closed trucks heavily armed. Fortunately, the National Police seems to have been made aware of this and with many roadblocks were able to stop these trucks and by searching them discovered what was inside these "Trojan horses". Some gangsters were apprehended, others killed and others were able to flee with their weapons. A gang hunt ensued in many neighborhoods where sporadic gunfire can be heard. The result is 35 bandits killed so far and all activities suspended in the metropolitan area.

Since Monday, November 11, Haiti has been cut off from the rest of the world with all international flights suspended after a Spirit plane was shot at as it approached to land at Toussaint Louverture Airport.

We are prisoners and at the mercy of the gangs. There are thousands of displaced people from working-class neighborhoods attacked by gangs who rush out of their slums in disarray, not knowing where to go, squatting public government land and buildings. Gangs continue to loot and burn one of the largest slums in the capital, Solino, with impunity. Vivi Michel, an upscale neighborhood is also under attack.

Today, thanks to the National Police and the neighborhood vigilance brigades, the gangs' plan seems to have been foiled. How long will we be able to hold out in the face of their assaults? The time is no longer to know if this is a plot against our homeland and continue to rely on so-called allies who don't care about us and our misfortunes. Our decision-makers must take responsibility, note the foreseeable failure of the Kenyan police and rethink their strategy to save the nation. In view of the refusal of the United States to sell military equipment to our police and the maintenance of the arms embargo for our embryonic army, other suppliers must be actively sought and found urgently. It is about our survival as a people. There are 2 standards and 2 measures, hypocrisy is in broad daylight. Some countries on this planet have the right to defend themselves, and in a totally disproportionate way in the face of terrorist attacks, others do not!

A UN peacekeeping force may be useful in the short term, but it will be necessary to recruit, train and arm our police and army if we are to win the gang war once and for all. At the moment we are losing it. Our police manage to limit their incursions without managing to fight them, dislodge them from lost territories, maintain forces in the reconquered neighborhoods, imprison, try and reintegrate those who can be rescued. Do we have gigantic prisons like in El Salvador to lock up gangsters? We must be built them urgently. How long will our police, our embryonic army and the vigilance brigade will be able to contain the assaults of the gangs? Dear compatriots, let everyone do their duty to enlighten and awaken those who decide and the world. Those who would be part of the conspiracy must be put aside. The time is more than serious, it is a matter of our survival not to sink into total chaos.

Long live Haiti!

The Gladiator.

Paru sur WhatsApp et Face Book le 22 mars 2024.

Qu’attendent les étrangers pour nous venir en aide avec des forces militaires.

L’International préfèrent envoyer des sacs de riz. La population n’a pas besoin de sacs de riz et d’aide humanitaire quand elle est kidnappée, sa vie est menacée, ses maisons pillées et brulées ses filles violées!!! Que peut faire l’aide humanitaire c’est l’hypocrisie de l’International qui la rend complice des gangs criminels et assassins! On assiste a des scènes de « bois-kalé » ou la population se fait justice elle même de façons très violentes à la manière des révolutions! Ils préfèrent partir ces étrangers, fuir leurs devoirs d’aide et assistance à personnes en dangers. Qu’ils ne reviennent pas après en hypocrites, nous dire qu’ils veulent nous aider avec leur paravant d’aide humanitaire, alors que quand ils fallait défendre une population sans défense face aux gangs, aider la police qui est débordée, réarmer notre armée, ils s’enfuyaient lâchement, maintenant l’embargo contre les armes pour l’Armée d’Haiti, mais laissant passer armes et munitions en contrebande de leurs pays pour les gangs!

Aux armes citoyens! Défendons nous des gangs!

Le Gladiateur

Paru sur Face Book le 20 février 2022.

L'Union SacréeSoeurs et frères haïtiens nous devons tous nous unir.

Un ami m’a demandé ce matin pourquoi nous sommes arrivé la?

Et il ajoute: "We only get what we give", le corps suit la tête, nous n’avons semé que haine et destruction tout au cours de notre histoire en ayant dans nos rêves la quête d’un ailleurs, nos n’avons jamais voulu adopté et nous battre jusqu’à la mort pour faire valoir ces grands principes de vertu essentielle à la construction de toute personne de toute famille et d’une nation. Nous cherchons jusqu’à aujourd’hui à rejeter toutes responsabilités sur les Autres, ce n’est jamais nous mais l’autre qui doit. Nous ne nous aimons pas et nous ne pouvons en conséquence aimer l’autre. Rien sur terre ne se construit sans amour.

Je lui réponds,

Mon cher,

Pourtant il y avait les idéaux de liberté, égalité, fraternité, de la révolution française que nous avons fait notre pour obtenir l’abolition de l’esclavage par la Convention, le second régime révolutionnaire français. Puis avec le rétablissement de l’esclavage décrété par Napoléon noirs et mulâtres se sont unis pour combattre et vivre libre ou mourir! Et nous avons réussi l’union sacrée des noirs et des mulâtres comme sur le drapeau symbole des 2 groupes! Déjà Estimé puis Duvalier ont rompu l’union sacrée en réintroduisant le préjugé de couleur, agité par la suite par tous les politiciens mal intentionnés. Il faut revenir à l’union sacré de tous les haïtiens et mettre fin a ce cercle vicieux de corruption « ce tou pam ».

Mon ami de me répondre:

Je crois que c’était circonstanciel, il n’y avait pas vraiment de communauté de vision parmi les clans qui se sont mis ensemble pour chasser les esclavagistes et devenir bien vite esclavagistes à leur tour.

Je lui réponds:

Visions, oui plusieurs non conciliables et qui se sont vite affrontées.

Dessalines, dictature sans partage du pouvoir qui devient impérial et absolutiste, l’Empereur a droit de vie ou de mort sur tous les citoyens.

Pétion une République avec un sénat, un certain partage du pouvoir, c’est une démocratie naissante assez avancée pour l’époque et le contexte.

Christophe, dictature monarchique héréditaire sans parlement, le Roi a tous les pouvoirs l’Etat c’est le Roi.

Boyer, plutôt dictateur, hérite de tout ca et réalise malgré tout l’union de 3 Etats haïtiens, plus la République Dominicaine sans tirer un coup de fusil en prêchant la paix et l’union de tous les haïtiens. Encore une fois l’union sacré nous permet de faire une grande chose l’unité de l’ile dans la paix!

Par la suite on va essayer différentes formes de Républiques plus ou moins démocratiques et dictatures avec encore un Empereur, Soulouque et les luttes entre le parti libéral et le parti national. Haïti se cherche tout comme la France et de nombreux pays à l’époque qui connaissent les soubresauts de la politique et la lutte pour le pouvoir.Au début du 20eme siècle, l’introduction des gangs de l’époque dans la politique, les cacos et les piquets, mènera a une succession de présidents tous assassinés les uns par les autres avec l’aide des gangs et l’occupation américaine. Tout peuple qui ignore son histoire est condamné à refaire les mêmes erreurs et à disparaître. Il ne faut pas que l’histoire soit un perpétuel recommencement.

Gregory Sicard