Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission
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theguardian.com
Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a US-backed security intervention aiming to rescue the Caribbean country from a criminal insurrection that toppled the prime minister and brought death and chaos to the streets.
About 400 members of the Kenya-led multinational police operation stepped off a Kenyan Airways plane at Port-au-Prince’s international airport on Tuesday. The US president, Joe Biden, hailed their arrival as the start of “an effort that will bring much-needed relief to Haitians”.
Kenya may be a relatively stable democracy in Africa, but there’s still rampant corruption in their police forces. Police officers are typically underpaid, so to supplement their income they’ll do things like set up random checkpoints on roads in order to shakedown drivers for money. Them going to Haiti doesn’t seem like it’s really going to help with anything.
Democracy is a strong term as the elections appeared to have foul play
Yeah, they’ve had shitty elections for years now. Odinga has been in like every election and contests it everytime, even causing really bad election violence at multiple points. This led to them reviving the role of Prime Minister specifically for him to placate Odinga that election. They’ve literally only ever had two prime ministers in their history (President is their head of state), they abolished it again after Odinga’s term was over.
Haiti has a poor history when it comes to foreign military forces entering the nation to 'help out', and they have a valid reason to be wary.
2010s Haiti cholera outbreak
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Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a US-backed security intervention aiming to rescue the Caribbean country from a criminal insurrection that toppled the prime minister and brought death and chaos to the streets.
Kenyan news reports suggest they will be responsible for defending key infrastructure including the airport, the port, the presidential palace, and the gang-controlled highways connecting the besieged capital with the rest of Haiti.
Biden said the eventual 2,500-strong force would also count on personnel and financial support from Benin, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Algeria, Canada, France, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, the UK and Spain.
The UN says more than 2,500 people have been killed or wounded this year as increasingly powerful gangs launched a coordinated uprising that paralysed the capital and forced the prime minister, Ariel Henry, to resign.
The international mission will be led by Noor Gabow, a senior Kenyan officer who studied criminology at Bramshill police college in the UK and has experience in peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone and Rwanda.
Many Haitians resent relentless foreign meddling in their affairs, particularly after the 2004-2017 UN stabilisation force, Minustah, was accused of human rights violations, sexual abuse and causing a devastating cholera outbreak.
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That'll surely bring peace and prosperity to them /s
A US backed gang will remove the ruling gang. Okay. That sounds not healthy although the US backed gang will be easier to control once the ruling gang is displaced properly. This is why I stay in my house and never leave. The world is messed up.
Some backstory: The Haitans succesfully ousted American puppet Ariel Henri. But we're not about to let these people have their independence. Time to install another puppet regime!
I haven’t seen any alternative to this action other than allowing the warlords that are mustering power to run rampant. The most notable of them is a guy known as Barbecue for setting people on fire. I’ve looked into them and I haven’t found a set of political aims from any of these groups; they don’t strike me as revolutionaries
Our newspapers which were very content with Ariel Henry's coup are now very worried about "gangs".
American intervention was very much opposed. The Kenyan Army Gang isn't going to fix this.
Because of Haiti's close proximity it's in America's interest to make sure only American puppet regimes get and stay in power.
Probably won’t fix things, I agree. I just don’t see any good options. I feel terrible for Haiti, they’ve deserved better for as long as they have been a state.
The previous UN intervention force was disastrous. From the article:
It's unlikely that angry revolutionaries will be the best option in the short term but since we keep kicking Haiti when they're down they cannot build up their country while it remains under puppet regimes.