Showing their deep concern about armed factions in Haiti Canadians under the US mission in Haiti kicked down another Haitian door, this time of Dany Toussaint, a politician, and recovering some weapons.
Maybe they’ll do something about the heavy weapons the coup makers got in order to overthrow Aristide’s regime a few months back. Oh — wait — where did those weapons come from again? Hmmm… Stan Goff has some ideas.
In other Haitian door kicking news, ZNet’s posted an article by Haiti Action activists on the raid on the mayor of Milo by the UN troops, blogged here previously. Between these and the arrest of Lavalas activist and grandmother Annette Auguste, the UN is compiling an impressive record of raiding.
No doubt Haitians are feeling very safe.
Technicality: the troops conducting the raid on Dany Toussaint were Canadian, and none of the Canadian politicians said anything about it, so this will serve as the Fear and Loathing Report today.
Note 2: I just got a note from Justin Felux, who has written very good stuff on Haiti for ZNet (take a look at it on ZNet’s Haiti Watch) about the victim of this raid. It seems that the UN’s raids on So Anne and Mayor Moise were different from this one…
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Justin,
Dany Toussaint is a thug that has probably been an asset of the CIA for a long time. Haiti would be better off if those Canadian troops had shot him. While Toussaint has pretended to be a supporter of Lavalas since the 1991 coup, he has shown his true colors over the past few years.
In the 1980s he received training at the SOA and was a member of the hated Haitian military. When Washington restored Aristide in 1994, they were pushing Toussaint as one of Haiti’s new leaders. They clearly saw him as someone that would be useful to them in the future. The CIA made several overtures toward him in the late 1990s.
Toussaint was behind the murder of journalist Jean Dominique, and his gangs have been stirring up trouble in Port-au-prince for years now. This has all resulted in a lot of chaos and destabilization, as well as a fracturing of Lavalas, which is probably what it was designed to do.
Since then Toussaint has openly aligned himself with the opposition and has a close working relationship with Guy Philippe.
