CPT: THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS A CRIMINAL STRATEGY

I risk appearing as a spoilsport, but the horrific suffering of my 12 million compatriots, huddled in this open-air dungeon that my country has become, revolts my conscience as a man and an initiate. The silence of our chains must disturb the sleep of the powerful of the earth. Even if the political decision to isolate Port-au-Prince from the rest of the world creates a business as profitable as cocaine on the backs of poor passengers, this does not elicit any commiseration from global moralists. The Haitian crisis is only discussed between two meetings on the situation in Ukraine or Gaza, Kashmir or Yemen.

The blood of Haitians sacrificed by Haitians themselves does not move the Christian West. The example of the Rwandan genocide seems to haunt the empty nights of our bloodied families.

And the descent into hell continues in the total indifference of the so-called moral or social institutions that sit on the Provisional Electoral Council, of the stakeholders from the political, business, and civil society sectors who, with rare complicity, share all the responsibilities of the Executive Power through the CPT, the Government, and the Territorial Collectivities.

Only now have I finally understood why the sectors controlling the CPT and the nine varans have always refused the existence of a Transition Oversight Body.

Here are the facts!

The CPT proclaimed a “state of emergency” on April 7 and adopted a “war budget” on April 14. What does this strategy hide? It is Article 2 of the Decree establishing the state of emergency throughout the territory that provides, among other things, for:

• implementing swift fund release procedures;

• making expenditures deemed necessary;

• reallocating budget appropriations to address the situation, with the exception of salaries, allowances, and retirement pensions;

• entering into contracts deemed necessary according to the swift procedures provided for in public procurement regulations;

• granting, for the time it deems necessary for the rapid and effective execution of intervention measures, the authorizations or derogations provided by law for the exercise of an activity or the accomplishment of an act required under the circumstances;

• ordering, when there is no other means of protection, the evacuation of persons;

• implementing any financial assistance program deemed necessary for victims;

• taking necessary measures to house displaced populations and, if necessary, providing for their supplies;

• ordering, when there is no other means of protection, the construction or demolition of works as well as the displacement of any public or private property;