Open Letter to the People of France - June 6, 2004 Aug 22. 2010 | Comments (0)
FRANCE Must Return the Charles X Ransom to Haiti: Open Letter to the People of France - June 6, 2004 Citizen of France, you are probably unaware that your government is currently committing a number of crimes against Haitians (1), an impoverished people whose history has some very unfortunate and unpleasant connections to that of your own. We take this opportunity to alert you to this fact and to call upon your sense of honor to disavow and help redress the wicked and despicable actions that the government of Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin have thus far committed, in your name, against Haiti. On April 7, 2003, A Constitutional Haitian Head of State issued a public demand (2) that, as a matter of honor and justice, France finally settles an outstanding debt towards Haiti by returning the outrageous 1825 ransom. The latter was collected at gunpoint from the Africans who had broken the chains of racial slavery on the former French colony of Saint-Domingue...