Activists Want France To Repay The Haiti Independence Money
This time it is NOT a hoaks like last month!
Voice of America reports: An international group of writers and academics is calling on France to reimburse Haiti that the Caribbean nation was forced to pay to secure its independence 200 years ago.
The group, which includes journalists and members of the European parliament, made the appeal to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in an open letter published Monday in the French newspaper Liberation.
The letter has also been signed by members of parliament from Europe, Canada and the Philippines, along with scholars, journalists and activists in France, Haiti, the US, Canada, the UK, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Germany.
Rayi chen an, di dan-l blan... President Aristide did ask France for the loot!
The article says: "In 2003, then-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide also demanded that France repay the money. Monday's letter accuses Paris of responding to that demand by helping the effort to oust the Aristide government a year later."
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