The Kenyan Scholar

On January 26, 2024, Kenya's high court ruled that its plan to offer 1,000 police officers to lead a so-called the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti was unconstitutional. Actually, there is no proof of an agreement between Haiti and Kenya giving these powers, even though the UN Security Council has already backed this bad police plan.

Even though the court ruled against the project and many Kenyans spoke out against it, President Ruto insisted that the mission would still happen, saying, "We already have bilateral relations with Haiti; all that needs to happen now is for Haiti to make a request to Kenya and the mission will go ahead."

Still, Haiti does not have an elected government at this time. President Jovenel Moise, who was killed in July 2021, had extended his term for years without a vote. The current prime minister, Ariel Henry, was put in charge just days before Moise was killed and is still in charge even though he doesn't have the power legally or with the support of the people. President Ruto signed an agreement with Henry in Kenya on March 1, 2024, even though Henry wasn't elected and didn't have any support as prime minister.

This project just looks like imperialism to me. We say "no to Blackfaced imperialism" and "yes to Haitian authority," which is how many Kenyans already feel.

It is clear that this planned UN mission in Haiti will have terrible results. This is the militarization of forced "peace" projects, like when the US invaded Iraq to supposedly find and destroy "weapons of mass destruction" or when NATO stepped in to "protect" civilians in Libya in 2011. This horrible killing in Palestine tells you everything you need to know about the West's priorities and who it really wants to protect.

The native people of Haiti, who called it "Ayiti" and were wiped out by European colonization, were the first country to free itself from slavery and settler colonization in 1804. Starting in 1791, the Africans who were slaves fought a brave battle against the settlers who owned slaves. They beat the French, British, and Spanish, freeing the slaves on both sides of the island that used to be called Santo Domingo.

It was the only country in South America that helped Simone Bolivar and the people fighting Spanish colonialism. Haiti was also a free country for all Africans. They were only asking for one thing with this internationalist act: the slaves to be set free.

This historically significant event continues to irritate Western nations; the United States, through its de facto actions against Haiti, not only failed to acknowledge its sovereignty at the time, but still does not respect it at present.The United States invaded Haiti from 1915 to 1934, saying it was trying to make the country healthier. In a strange twist, this too happened after a president had been killed. The US stole Haiti's gold reserves and set up a puppet government as part of this "stabilization" process, which is more commonly called a "peace" mission.

Kenya will get 14 billion Kenya shillings, which is about $100 million, for this planned police project, according to the news. This may seem like a small thing compared to what the "Core Group," which started the disastrous MINUSTAH occupation of Haiti in 2004 and is still there to keep the "peace" there, stands to gain from this new "stabilizing" mission.

Kenyans, Africans, and real peace activists can't ignore the facts. The planned Kenyan mission to Haiti is a fake imperialist show. The UN is once again being used as a weapon by the same groups that wanted to control this island, but this time they are using a force that looks like the Haitian people.