It has been revealed that the Florida doctor who was arrested over the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise campaigned to replace the slain leader with the backing of a key figure from the United Nations.
Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian who has lived in the United States of America since the late 1970s, has been named as mastermind of Moise’s assassination. He is suspected of being ‘one of the leaders’ behind the shooting and the attempted killing of the president wife Martine last week.
Police in Haitian police reported that the suspect entered the country last month on a private jet ‘with the intention of taking the Haitian Presidency’ however the police is yet to back their allegations with water-proof evidence.
Daily Mail reported that Dr. Sanon’s ambitions to reform his homeland country Haiti were first expressed in February 2011 when he launched a website entitled ‘Dr Christian Sanon Leadership pour Haiti’.
The website has since been taken down but archived web pages from 2011 to 2016 include a section for donations, a ‘plan for Haiti’, and news updates on Dr. Sanon’s efforts to build health facilities in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Sanon’s objectives became more clear last month with the launch of a second website – Haitianlivesmatter – which called for the dethronement of Moise. The president was later shot at least 12 times on July 7 and also had an eye gouged out.
‘Our own democracy has now been taken. We are no longer free but instead are controlled by the authoritarianism of Jovenel Moise,” read in part a letter addressed to Julie Chung the Acting Assistant Secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
‘Moise has stolen the democracy Haitians died to create. He has “unchecked’ executive power … Moise has shown he intends to use his power, intimidation and unending wide scale brutality to broaden and extend his control of Haiti by establishing a new “Constitution” in just a few weeks.”
“Even worse, this “Constitution” would provide impunity for his crimes. If this ‘Constitution’ is ‘enacted,’ it will be without legitimate legal authority, it would contravene elections and the current ‘crisis’ could ‘morph’ into violent and deadly pandemonium throughout Haiti.”
‘We pray this does not happen, but time is running out; as you know, a “fuse” has been burning since February 7! Something must be done soon.
‘Haitians are thoroughly convinced that even IF elections were ever organized by the current administration, these “elections” would be not be fair and therefore they would compound the current crisis.
‘Thus, as you say, Haiti is “paralyzed”: no elections cause chaos, but, fair elections organized by the current administration are widely believed to be unrealistic. Therefore … Haiti needs a transitional government to restore Haiti’s democracy and freedom.’
The letter was signed by the ‘The People of Haiti’ – and it included a proclamation explaining how Dr. Sanon was selected to be interim leader following ‘extensive consultations’ with leading business, religious and political figures.
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