Haiti, June 4, 2025: The Incompatibility of People's Unity with Terrorist Gangs
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 3 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
Translated from French — AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial team. The French version is authoritative. Read the original · About our translation policy
We heard with indignation and bitterness the remarks of the Franco-Beninese, Mr. Kemi Seba, during one of his lengthy speeches, which he delivered in Northern Haiti, as part of his tour. We followed him with interest and noted that it is a song whose chorus we already know by heart. It is the well-known song of the main terrorist leaders who have been killing, kidnapping, robbing, and raping us for almost seven years.
He believes that unity is necessary between the proletariat and the 'viv ansanm' terrorist coalition for peace to return to our country. We, on the other hand, do not share this opinion. Quite the contrary! We demand peace and freedom for the Haitian people imprisoned by criminals, and prison or death for these lawless criminals.
In other words, we believe that the tranquility of the former necessarily requires the imprisonment or death of the latter. No middle ground, no other alternative. If, for Mr. Seba, the Haitian people have a common enemy with the terrorists and it is the white man who makes us believe that the black man is the enemy of the black man, for the Haitian people, it is different.
Let's summarize the terms of this divergence.
i. The Haitian people have no common enemy with the terrorists, because the latter are criminals and enforcers serving the enemies of the people, both internal and external.
ii. Haitian terrorists are outlaws; they cannot transform their criminal regime into a citizen movement. The transition between terrorism and the exercise of citizenship cannot be achieved through grandiloquent speeches.
iii. Contrary to what the president of the Pan-African Emergencies NGO advocates, who rather blamed those who provide weapons to terrorists, the Haitian people hold both the terrorists (who execute) and their sponsors responsible for their misfortune. They are in the same boat. They represent the two terminals of the same battery.
iv. The Haitian people cannot reconcile with the 'viv ansanm' terrorist criminal groups. They are not in a conflictual situation or enmity with the criminals but bear the brunt of their acts of banditry, an instrument of unavowed motives. For the Haitian people, Mr. Seba's opinion does not align with the reality they are currently enduring. We fully understood his desire to deliver grand speeches 'in our favor,' but unfortunately, not being situated from the same viewpoint, he sees the opposite of what we see. Unlike him, we believe that only the extermination of criminals can be a path to freedom and peace for the Haitian people. The right to self-determination of the Haitian people, which seems dear to him, cannot be effective under the terror of terrorist gangs. The Haitian people, who are massacred daily and experience multiple terrorist abuses, therefore strongly oppose this discourse which implicitly tends to absolve their tormentors of their merciless crimes. Jean Willy Belfleur,
Committed Haitian Citizen
i. The Haitian people have no common enemy with the terrorists, because the latter are criminals and enforcers serving the enemies of the people, both internal and external.
ii. Haitian terrorists are outlaws; they cannot transform their criminal regime into a citizen movement. The transition between terrorism and the exercise of citizenship cannot be achieved through grandiloquent speeches.
iii. Contrary to what the president of the Pan-African Emergencies NGO advocates, who rather blamed those who provide weapons to terrorists, the Haitian people hold both the terrorists (who execute) and their sponsors responsible for their misfortune. They are in the same boat. They represent the two terminals of the same battery.
iv. The Haitian people cannot reconcile with the 'viv ansanm' terrorist criminal groups. They are not in a conflictual situation or enmity with the criminals but bear the brunt of their acts of banditry, an instrument of unavowed motives. For the Haitian people, Mr. Seba's opinion does not align with the reality they are currently enduring. We fully understood his desire to deliver grand speeches 'in our favor,' but unfortunately, not being situated from the same viewpoint, he sees the opposite of what we see. Unlike him, we believe that only the extermination of criminals can be a path to freedom and peace for the Haitian people. The right to self-determination of the Haitian people, which seems dear to him, cannot be effective under the terror of terrorist gangs. The Haitian people, who are massacred daily and experience multiple terrorist abuses, therefore strongly oppose this discourse which implicitly tends to absolve their tormentors of their merciless crimes. Jean Willy Belfleur,
Committed Haitian Citizen
