#Garry Conille

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By Henriot Dorcent and Kim Ives

The Haitian State is repressing Haiti’s masses by importing foreign military occupation troops, called the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), to reinforce the Haitian National Police (PNH), the traditional counterinsurgency force deployed by the international and local ruling classes.

The State is also looking to bolster the Armed Forces of Haiti (FAdH), which has historically been the ruling classes’ principal hammer to keep the masses down. Although disbanded in 1995, the force was relaunched in 2017.

But the puppet government of de facto Prime Minister Garry Conille and the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) are also using what could be called economic or financial repression.

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Haïti: le PM Garry Conille rencontre les familles des trois policiers tués à Delmas 18

Une semaine après l’acte criminel survenu à Delmas 18 où trois policiers, pris dans une embuscade, ont été assassinés, le chef du gouvernement de transition, Dr Garry Conille a reçu dans sa résidence officielle les familles des victimes. En effet, dimanche 16 juin 2024, exactement une semaine après l’assassinat des policiers de l’UTAG, Fermitus Emelin, Piton Wilkens Jean Junior et Clovis…

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Haiti's Prime Minister Garry Conille Ousted After Six Months

Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille has been removed from office after just six months, following a decision by the country’s transitional ruling council. The council, composed of eight of its nine members, appointed businessman and former Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as Conille’s successor.

Conille, a former United Nations official, had been brought in to guide Haiti through a deepening security crisis caused by gang violence and to pave the way for the first presidential elections since 2016. He described his dismissal as "illegal," stating in a letter that it raised serious concerns about the country’s future stability. According to Haiti’s constitution, only the parliament has the authority to dismiss a sitting prime minister, and Haiti currently has no functioning parliament.

The decision comes amid escalating violence in the country, with over 3,600 people killed since January, and more than 500,000 displaced due to ongoing gang wars. The UN has warned that Haiti is facing extreme hunger, with nearly half of its population lacking enough food.

The transitional presidential council was formed in April after Conille’s predecessor, Ariel Henry, was forced from office following a violent gang takeover of Port-au-Prince. The country has been without a president since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Gangs have taken advantage of the power vacuum, extending their control over large parts of Haiti.

Amid this chaos, Haiti has received international assistance, including the deployment of Kenyan police forces to help stabilize the situation. However, the country remains deeply divided and faces a challenging path toward restoring order and democratic governance.

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Révocation de Garry Conille : entre impasse institutionnelle et nécessité politique

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Le Conseil présidentiel et Viv Ansanm : les deux faces d'une même pièce

Ce lundi 11 novembre 2024, le pays s’est réveillé sous une forte tension après que les principaux chefs de la coalition Viv Ansanm aient annoncé les couleurs, invitant la population civile à rester chez elle. Des annonces survenues après le passage en force des conseillers présidents de procéder au remplacement de Garry Conille à la Primature. Neuf mois après la démission forcée du Premier…

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Soupçons de Corruption au BMPAD : Garry Conille Demande une Enquête

Le Premier ministre Garry Conille réaffirme son engagement à lutter contre la corruption au sein de l’administration publique. Sur son compte X, le chef du gouvernement a annoncé qu’il a rencontré les responsables de l’Unité de Lutte Contre la Corruption (ULCC), de la Cour Supérieure des Comptes et du Contentieux Administratif (CSCCA), de l’Inspection Générale des Finances (IGF), et le…

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The assault resulted in the deaths of at least 70 individuals, including three infants and ten women, and left many others seriously injured.

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The Haitian government has deployed specialist anti-gang police units, it said Friday, after an apparent massacre northwest of Port-au-Prince that the United Nations said left at least 70 dead.

Carried out early Thursday in the town of Pont Sonde, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital, the attack saw scores of houses and vehicles torched after gang members opened fire.

The killings come as an international policing mission, led by Kenyan forces, attempts to restore government control in Haiti, where armed gangs have seized swaths of the capital and countryside and earlier this year helped push out the country's leader.

"Members of the Gran Grif gang used automatic rifles to shoot at the population, killing at least 70 people, among them about 10 women and three infants," UN Human Rights Office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement Friday.

The Haitian Prime Minister's office said in a statement that "this latest act of violence, targeting innocent civilians, is unacceptable and demands an urgent, rigorous and coordinated response from the state."

The embattled Haitian National Police would be "stepping up its efforts," the statement said, adding "agents from the Temporary Anti-Gang Unit (UTAG) have been deployed as reinforcements to back up teams already on the ground."

A spokeswoman for a local civil society group told Haitian media that the attack came after Gran Grif leader Luckson Elan had issued threats against people refusing to pay the group tolls to use a nearby highway.

"They executed dozens of residents," Bertide Horace told radio station Magik 9. "Almost all of the victims were shot in the head."

"Police officers stationed nearby, apparently understaffed, offered no resistance to the criminals, preferring to take cover," she said.

At least 16 people were seriously injured, the UN said, including two gang members shot by police.

The gang reportedly set fire to at least 45 houses and 34 vehicles, it added, forcing many residents to flee.

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Additional security forces, supported by the Kenyan-led international policing mission deployed to the country, were sent to Pont Sonde overnight Thursday into Friday, the prime minister's office added.

The attack occurred at 3:00 am Thursday, it said.

Prime Minister Garry Conille added that the "heinous crime, perpetrated against defenseless women, men and children, is not only an attack on these victims, but on the entire Haitian nation."

Last week, the UN human rights office said more than 3,600 people had been killed already this year in "senseless" gang violence in the country.

Haiti has for years been beset by compounding political, humanitarian and gang crises, with armed groups rising up to push out then-prime minister Ariel Henry earlier this year in an effort that saw attacks on the international airport and police stations.

Many politicians are intertwined with armed groups: last week, the US Treasury announced sanctions against a member of parliament from the Artibonite Department, where Pont Sonde is located, for allegedly helping form the Gran Grif gang to aid in his 2016 election.

Unelected and unpopular -- and unable to restore order -- Henry resigned, and a transitional government with Conille as prime minister was put in place, backed by the international community.

That government is mandated to restore security and lead the country to its first polls since 2016.

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BTW AS A LIL UPDATE ON WHATS GOING ON IN HAITI, but haiti has a new prime minister named Garry Conille, he was sworn in a few days ago which is pretty big cause haiti’s old one stepped down👍🏽👍🏽

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5/30/24

Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of the hush money trial, making him now a felon. His sentencing hearing will be on July 11th. Maximum is four years in prison, but he's a first offender and it's a nonviolent crime, so even if he were just a regular Joe Shmoe, he may receive home confinement or even probation. This isn't a federal case so he can't pardon himself later. I'll try to write slowly over the weekend to describe this case better. Some of his more serious cases, like the Georgia one, are also state level but aren't scheduled until after the election.

In a massive, massive reversal, the Biden administration is now allowing the Ukraine to fire US-made weapons into Russia proper, but only near the borders. This is due to the sudden Russian advances, because until now the US has been trying desperately to avoid escalating the situation.

Israel is now allowing food produced in Israel and the West Bank to be sold to Gaza, the first time since the war. Ever since the Rafah offensive started, pretty much all aid has ground to a halt, and people are starving. Whatever gets in will undoubtedly not be enough.

Garry Conille was voted in as Haitian prime minister by the Presidential Transition Council. After Prime Minister Moise was assassinated in 2021, the country — which admittedly already wasn't the most stable — kinda started slipping into chaos. The next prime minister, Henry, was under suspicion for the assassination. He also started losing control of the country to gangs, to the point that he once couldn't land his plane from an international trip because gangs had taken over the airport. He resigned a few months ago and the council stepped in. Conille has led the country briefly and has a lot of experience in the UN, but it's a very, very perilous situation with over 4000 people since January dying due to gang violence. He will lead the country until the next elections, but there haven't been any held since there's too much violence in the streets. There's literally no functioning legislature due to this.

Slovakian Prime Minister Fico was released from the hospital after he was shot during a meeting with supporters. The shooter, a 71-year-old man with no strong political affiliations, seems to have gotten entrenched with political fervor. In recent years political tension in Slovakia has ratched up and there are even talks of possible civil war, ever since a journalist was killed in 2018 whilst investigating corruption.

Fourteen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were convicted and two were acquitted for subversion. They were amongst 47 others who were arrested in 2020 by organizing an unofficial primary to pick candidates to run for office and were accused of trying to overthrow the government.

India is suffering a horrible heatwave with at least 115°, with one city reaching 126°. Only ten people have died so far, but many have been hospitalized and there undoubtedly will be more to come.

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By Kim Ives

It is certain that such grievances and the turmoil at home will impact the morale and effectiveness of the Kenyan troops in Haiti. But the inevitable massacres, abuse, pollution, and resistance that the MSS deployment will bring – as in all previous foreign interventions into Haiti ��� will likely stoke the growing protest movement back in Kenya, possibly leading to President William Ruto’s ouster.

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Le PM Garry Conille participe au « Sommet de la Quinzaine de la Diplomatie »

Le Premier Ministre, Dr Garry Conille a participé, jeudi 24 octobre 2024, au Sommet de la Quinzaine de la Diplomatie. L’événement a eu lieu à l’hôtel Montana, autour du thème : «Haïti face à la mondialisation». Alors que le pays continue de plonger dans le chaos généré par une crise multiforme, toute démarche visant à le remettre sur pied est bonne. Si pour certains, tout changement qui pourrait…

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Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council had chosen someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorize the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once-peaceful neighborhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations and prisons. Council member Louis Gérald Gilles told The Associated Press that six out of seven council members with voting power chose Conille earlier Tuesday. He said one member, Laurent St. Cyr, was not in Haiti and therefore did not vote. Conille, who is UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, previously served as Haiti’s prime minister from October 2011 to May 2012 under then President Michel Martelly. He replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, who was named interim prime minister after Ariel Henry resigned via letter in late April. Henry was on an official trip to Kenya when a coalition of powerful gangs launched coordinated attacks Feb. 29, seizing control of police stations, shooting at Haiti’s main international airport and storming the country’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.

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On May 28, Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council elected former Prime Minister Garry Conille to lead the country once again and head its transitional government, which holds a mandate through 2026. No women were interviewed for the position. Although the move offers a step toward stability amid the widespread gang violence that has marred the country in recent months, the council still has much to achieve, especially when it comes to prioritizing women’s empowerment and addressing gender-based violence.

Haitian women are on the front lines of the country’s crisis: as first responders, as political and civil society leaders, and disproportionately as victims. Yet the council’s seven voting members are all men; one woman, Régine Abraham, is a non-voting observer. As the transitional council will wield significant power over Haiti’s response to instability and state reconstruction, women’s voices and needs must be represented.

It has now been more than seven years since Haiti held elections; its last elected officials left office in January 2023. In April, acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry stepped down in the face of a violent insurgency as gangs united to demand his resignation and greater political involvement. Although gang violence is a long-standing issue in Haiti, the current crisis was triggered by the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

The power vacuum created a space for gangs to expand territorial control and exercise a greater monopoly on violence, including through rape. In addition to overseeing the planned Kenya-led international security intervention, the transitional government aims to create a national security council to respond to gang violence and establish a government action control body, which would oversee government budgets and pursue accountability. Even still, it needs to do more when it comes to prioritizing women’s inclusion and safety.

The lack of female voting members on the transitional council is at odds with Haitian women’s demonstrated leadership. Since the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, women have played a vital role in the country’s history. Although they remain underrepresented in politics, they have served at Haiti’s highest levels of government, including as a provisional president, prime ministers, Supreme Court justices, mayors, ambassadors, government ministers, parliamentarians, and leaders of political parties.

Excluding women from leadership roles thus deprives Haiti’s transition of crucial expertise.

Today, women are at the forefront of addressing Haiti’s gang conflict. Women-led organizations provide lifesaving humanitarian aid and are in close contact with the needs of those most impacted. Women leaders have also achieved rare victories in ending gang violence. Yvrose Pierre, the mayor of the northern port city of Cap-Haitien, joined forces with the National Police to aggressively tackle gangs—in part by demolishing structures on the city’s outskirts—and has maintained its continued stability.

Haitian women also bear the brunt of gang violence. Fighting remains characterized by brutal sexual violence, including gang rape, which predominantly targets women and girls. In the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cité Soleil, according to a study published in May 2023, 80 percent of women reported having experienced gender-based violence, and the number of identified survivors has increased throughout 2024. Women are disproportionately affected by poverty, food insecurity, displacement, and lack of medical care caused by gang violence, as well as the decimation of public services.

There is a critical window of opportunity to identify and address these harms: If the needs of Haitian women are not accounted for within the unfolding leadership transition, it risks prolonging their suffering and exposure to violence.

There is a legacy of women’s leadership generating tangible gains for Haitian women, with women leading the establishment of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Rights, achieving the vote on the constitutional principle of a 30 percent quota for women’s participation in public service, and enabling the passage of legislation reclassifying rape as a crime and criminalizing trafficking for both sex and labor.

Women’s expertise will be an asset to achieving a just political transition and security for all Haitians, in addition to furthering the specific needs of women and girls. Cross-national research finds that women’s inclusion in peace negotiations strengthens the durability and quality of agreements reached, while greater gender equality is associated with more resilient democracies.

The current lack of female voting members on Haiti’s transitional council also raises the specter of impunity for gang members for widespread rape. Haitian gangs are pushing for greater inclusion in the political transition and amnesty to protect them from prosecution. The absence of women’s voices may lead officials to abandon accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes in the service of negotiation. Doing so would deny justice to victims, inhibit efforts to address socioeconomic vulnerabilities that fuel gender-based violence, and risk signaling that these violations are tolerable. In other cases, such as that of Peru or Colombia, such impunity and normalization have driven high rates of post-conflict violence against women and girls.

Yet there is hope. Haiti’s National Commission on Truth and Justice, established in 1995, was the country’s first commission to explicitly include sexual violence in its mandate. Although its impact was limited, its final report identified how sexual violence was weaponized against women and recommended enhanced legal protections against rape. This demonstrates that inclusion of sexual violence in present-day justice efforts is possible.

Tackling impunity and the underlying socioeconomic drivers of gender-based violence is even more urgent given the pending deployment of the Kenya-led mission. Although the intervention could help stabilize the country, past international interventions in Haiti have been marred by reports of sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by foreign troops, including U.N. peacekeepers—another gender dimension that Haiti’s interim leadership must consider and address.

A failure to recognize and condemn sexual violence by gang members could create an enabling environment for future abuse by other actors. Poverty is a significant underlying factor in sexual exploitation and abuse; taking steps now to support economic opportunities and job creation for women is a key part of prevention. With U.S. personnel already laying the groundwork for the international mission in Haiti, time is running out.

As a first step, the transitional council must seek to more meaningfully include women in its decision-making now. Doing so requires enhanced protection for women leaders from both online abuse and physical violence. UNESCO Ambassador Dominique Dupuy was initially named to be on the council but quickly stepped down due to harassment and death threats. On June 11, the new members of Conille’s cabinet were named; the appointment of two women—Ketleen Florestal and Dupuy—to head the finance and foreign affairs ministries, respectively, is an initial victory for women’s leadership.

Women and women’s organizations, including those in the Haitian diaspora, must also be central to the design and implementation of any transitional justice mechanisms. Strengthening relationships with other women-led organizations can help Haitian women learn from past experiences and best practices. Although implementation remains fraught, examples of gender-sensitive peace agreements, such as that of Colombia, could offer further insight into advocating for women’s comprehensive inclusion within negotiations.

Second, women leaders and organizations should use the current window to advocate for women’s rights and organize in advance of the establishment of a long-term government. For example, women’s organizations should encourage the transitional council to adopt legislation on the prevention, punishment, and elimination of violence against women, which was tabled by the Senate in 2018 but ultimately not enacted. The bill was introduced by Sen. Dieudonne Luma Étienne, the only woman in Haiti’s most recently elected Senate.

Women must also use this time to prepare to run in future elections and take on leadership roles in public service, including in the police, judiciary, and military. These efforts must be paired with a sincere push by the council to excise corruption. Research across 182 countries finds that women’s political inclusion is associated with greater development outcomes only when corruption levels are low.

Third, the transitional council and the newly appointed prime minister and cabinet must adopt a gender-responsive approach across relief and recovery efforts. Recognizing and pursuing accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes are vital to ending cycles of violence against women both during and after conflict. A gender-responsive approach is needed to minimize harm for Haitian women and girls who come forward in any consultation, investigation, or justice process, as well as to navigate complex cases in which women were forced or coerced into joining gangs.

Fourth, sexual and gender-based violence committed by gangs, including rape, must be addressed as a critical public security issue. The current crisis highlights how these violations are tools to sow instability, force displacement, and control territory. Ending sexual and gender-based violence is thus central to preventing the recurrence of future insecurity in Haiti. In fact, research in other conflict settings finds that a high rate of sexual violence—even when fighting among combatants has declined—is associated with a greater likelihood of resumed violence.

Ending these violations requires accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes and the elimination of the underlying inequalities that fuel this violence. Creating additional employment opportunities for women, strengthening and enforcing policy and legal protections from gender-based violence, and better integrating women into the justice system are starting points. But both interim actors and the next government must also prioritize long-term support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

For Haitian women, the stakes of the current political transition are enormous. This moment is an opportunity not only to achieve women’s immediate protection but also to enshrine their long-term rights, inclusion, and security. Harnessing women’s collective power is necessary to achieve a better future for all Haitians.

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Macron é criticado por declarações polêmicas sobre líderes haitianos

O presidente francês, Emmanuel Macron, enfrenta forte repercussão após ser flagrado fazendo comentários considerados ofensivos sobre os líderes do Haiti durante o G20, realizado no Brasil. Em um vídeo amplamente divulgado nas redes sociais, Macron chamou o Conselho Presidencial Transitório haitiano de “completos idiotas” por destituírem o ex-primeiro-ministro Garry Conille. “O primeiro-ministro…