Haiti: Once Upon a Time, a Plan of Extermination for an Entire People
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince
· 5 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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I write this text over time. It is composed of different perspectives to form a whole that I would like to publish in several parts to better retain everything. Today I am writing a paper that will not dwell on the genocide of the Taíno Indians in America; it will not focus on the 17th century, nor on the 18th and 19th centuries of slavery. I will focus on current events.
Le Nouvelliste | Published on: 2025-04-28 00:00:00 What I am writing today is the story of the moment. Any view of the past in relation to the ongoing action, consider it a flashback so as not to forget anything. This is not a text, it is a cry. It is a reflection that rather concerns our current era. It concerns the 21st century, in the age of high technology where communication is as fast as an arrow. Addressing all humans connected to a screen, this cogitation, which requires a quest for facts and documentation to thoroughly examine what is happening in Haiti, aims to be interactive. Our daily lives abound with facts characterized by blind hegemonic violence, which are the result of political and economic choices that lead Haitians to kill each other. Let no one tell me that it is because young Haitians armed with large-caliber weapons from the United States are evil that they kill their own blood brothers in Port-au-Prince, Cité Soleil, Kenskoff, Mirebalais, Pont Sondé, Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, and other surrounding agglomerations. Bloodthirsty Tigers Since when would young people in the prime of their lives (fifteen, sixteen, twenty years old) from this country known for its hospitality and benevolent smile spontaneously become bloodthirsty tigers? Since when would highway bandits magically become strategists capable of deploying across the territory with such capacity and art to conduct their actions with such determination and cohesion? Like some wealthy individuals in big business, they have managed to rally communication professionals and influencers to their cause. Handsomely paid, this communication world labels them as « freedom fighters ». Woe to the public that gives credit to the reality-erasers. A Spiritual Crisis From the hegemonic aim of the West, which has built a narrative based on the superiority of the white race, all the horrors that could fill an entire encyclopedia stem. In view of what is happening to us, a Vodou song comes to mind: « Sa w wè a se sa. » (What you see is what you see). Let's look at the Latin root of the word « Occident »: occire which means to kill, destroy, massacre, eliminate, assassinate, slaughter. Or occidere: to cut, to cut into pieces; to kill, to cause to perish. For a people whose ancestors experienced more than three centuries of slavery, we cannot erase from our memory what we suffered due to a certain conduct. We remember that the conduct of all Western action is based on the myth of racial superiority. For this reason, the White man believes he carries on his shoulders « a heavy burden », difficult to bear: to cleanse the earth of all savages, all barbarians and demons to make it an eldorado. In light of this myth, understand our relentless civilizers determined to complete their extermination project in Haiti. The master race, within the framework of its ideology that essentializes humans deemed inferior, swept our Taíno brothers from the face of the earth. For them, these human beings who were not Christians had no soul. And the Africans? They placed them at the bottom of the racial pyramid. Had we forgotten that we were objects, goods piled up at Croix-des-Bossales to be sold and thrown into slavery? Confronted with a spiritual crisis, the West is engaged in an endless pursuit of material wealth on the altar of growth. Henceforth, they want to extract all the earth's riches, pump the resources from our oceans to produce goods to demonstrate their omnipotence to the world. Carte blanche is given to the unlimited enrichment of the individual. Poor individual. Erase the Descendants to Better Endure History In its excess of pride, the West wants to rewrite history to better construct the world's imagination as a superpower to be obeyed implicitly. That is why the West continues to manipulate our elites against our people to better make the descendants of our valiant warriors disappear, those who cried during the Battle of Vertières: « Liberty or death! Live free or die! » Our elites blinded by money; our elites, structured by software that determines their tasks to accomplish, perform their function as valets. All their operations have nothing to do with the essential goals of our society. They are at the service of a system programmed for our extermination. The thunder that accompanies our disgusts, our indignations does not shake them. Our cries mean nothing. Gone are the days of living and loving in the tropics. People at the head of the State who are placed to protect us turn against us. Look at how they treat the agents of our Haitian National Police? Many police officers, bogged down in defending their petty interests, do not even understand that they have been debased before being thrown to the slaughter. Gone are the days of dreaming and loving in the joy of living together. Citizens, the time has come for us to pull ourselves together to face the demolishers. You are not savages, you are not inferior, as they say. You are like all human beings capable of good and evil. The light is within you. What you are doing there is not a product of hell; it is the fruit of a culture, a political choice, an economic choice that will engulf us all in a « shit hole ». Do you not see that we have a bare-handed, kneeling population? Why this total war? Why these drone launches? Our elites, blinded by money and power, and the power that leads to money, feign helplessness to pursue their dream of conquerors tired of living among a people dragging themselves through dirty misery. Marnatha I. TERNIER
Le Nouvelliste | Published on: 2025-04-28 00:00:00 What I am writing today is the story of the moment. Any view of the past in relation to the ongoing action, consider it a flashback so as not to forget anything. This is not a text, it is a cry. It is a reflection that rather concerns our current era. It concerns the 21st century, in the age of high technology where communication is as fast as an arrow. Addressing all humans connected to a screen, this cogitation, which requires a quest for facts and documentation to thoroughly examine what is happening in Haiti, aims to be interactive. Our daily lives abound with facts characterized by blind hegemonic violence, which are the result of political and economic choices that lead Haitians to kill each other. Let no one tell me that it is because young Haitians armed with large-caliber weapons from the United States are evil that they kill their own blood brothers in Port-au-Prince, Cité Soleil, Kenskoff, Mirebalais, Pont Sondé, Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, and other surrounding agglomerations. Bloodthirsty Tigers Since when would young people in the prime of their lives (fifteen, sixteen, twenty years old) from this country known for its hospitality and benevolent smile spontaneously become bloodthirsty tigers? Since when would highway bandits magically become strategists capable of deploying across the territory with such capacity and art to conduct their actions with such determination and cohesion? Like some wealthy individuals in big business, they have managed to rally communication professionals and influencers to their cause. Handsomely paid, this communication world labels them as « freedom fighters ». Woe to the public that gives credit to the reality-erasers. A Spiritual Crisis From the hegemonic aim of the West, which has built a narrative based on the superiority of the white race, all the horrors that could fill an entire encyclopedia stem. In view of what is happening to us, a Vodou song comes to mind: « Sa w wè a se sa. » (What you see is what you see). Let's look at the Latin root of the word « Occident »: occire which means to kill, destroy, massacre, eliminate, assassinate, slaughter. Or occidere: to cut, to cut into pieces; to kill, to cause to perish. For a people whose ancestors experienced more than three centuries of slavery, we cannot erase from our memory what we suffered due to a certain conduct. We remember that the conduct of all Western action is based on the myth of racial superiority. For this reason, the White man believes he carries on his shoulders « a heavy burden », difficult to bear: to cleanse the earth of all savages, all barbarians and demons to make it an eldorado. In light of this myth, understand our relentless civilizers determined to complete their extermination project in Haiti. The master race, within the framework of its ideology that essentializes humans deemed inferior, swept our Taíno brothers from the face of the earth. For them, these human beings who were not Christians had no soul. And the Africans? They placed them at the bottom of the racial pyramid. Had we forgotten that we were objects, goods piled up at Croix-des-Bossales to be sold and thrown into slavery? Confronted with a spiritual crisis, the West is engaged in an endless pursuit of material wealth on the altar of growth. Henceforth, they want to extract all the earth's riches, pump the resources from our oceans to produce goods to demonstrate their omnipotence to the world. Carte blanche is given to the unlimited enrichment of the individual. Poor individual. Erase the Descendants to Better Endure History In its excess of pride, the West wants to rewrite history to better construct the world's imagination as a superpower to be obeyed implicitly. That is why the West continues to manipulate our elites against our people to better make the descendants of our valiant warriors disappear, those who cried during the Battle of Vertières: « Liberty or death! Live free or die! » Our elites blinded by money; our elites, structured by software that determines their tasks to accomplish, perform their function as valets. All their operations have nothing to do with the essential goals of our society. They are at the service of a system programmed for our extermination. The thunder that accompanies our disgusts, our indignations does not shake them. Our cries mean nothing. Gone are the days of living and loving in the tropics. People at the head of the State who are placed to protect us turn against us. Look at how they treat the agents of our Haitian National Police? Many police officers, bogged down in defending their petty interests, do not even understand that they have been debased before being thrown to the slaughter. Gone are the days of dreaming and loving in the joy of living together. Citizens, the time has come for us to pull ourselves together to face the demolishers. You are not savages, you are not inferior, as they say. You are like all human beings capable of good and evil. The light is within you. What you are doing there is not a product of hell; it is the fruit of a culture, a political choice, an economic choice that will engulf us all in a « shit hole ». Do you not see that we have a bare-handed, kneeling population? Why this total war? Why these drone launches? Our elites, blinded by money and power, and the power that leads to money, feign helplessness to pursue their dream of conquerors tired of living among a people dragging themselves through dirty misery. Marnatha I. TERNIER
