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How can a Western television channel or newspaper write in reaction to the decision of the High Court of Justice of Kenya rejecting the principle of sending police officers to Haiti that this decision “killed the hope of bringing back the calm or stability in Haiti”?
We did not have to wait for recent deadly events in the world to understand that the media do not provide information “completely objectively” and that the question of point of view is only erased on the surface. We already knew that someone will highlight a particular fact rather than another, will call on the expertise of a particular specialist who will say exactly what we have chosen to hear and make heard.
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Haiti is undoubtedly one of the countries to suffer the most from biases which distort more than they inform, confuse more than they enlighten, offer no possibility of understanding the relationship between the situation and the process. historical, and do not relay the points of view of the people, communities, peoples about whom they claim to inform.
How can a Western television channel or newspaper write in reaction to the decision of the High Court of Justice of Kenya rejecting the principle of sending police officers to Haiti that this decision “killed the hope of bringing back the calm or stability in Haiti”? Let us cry over this saving force, awaited and hoped for, that wicked judges have slowed down in its beautiful outpouring of solidarity!
But, in the media heaven, who are we kidding?
Already, it is commendable that in Kenya as elsewhere, the authorities of the judiciary remind the Executive of the legal and institutional frameworks from which their actions must not deviate. They would not do so if we would speak of “banana republics”, of “gruesome” powers, of a “deficit of democratic institutions”.
It is commendable that in Kenya as elsewhere, the authorities of the judiciary remind the Executive of the legal and institutional frameworks from which their actions must not deviate.
As for the hope that would represent for Haitians the arrival in their country of a thousand representatives of a police force denounced at home for its arbitrariness and its brutality, who then provided such “information” to the Western media which broadcast it?
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Three possible sources: an employee of the propaganda services of the de facto power operating in Haiti, a press release from the United States embassy, the spokesperson for the United Nations mission. None of these authorities can say what is the “hope” of the Haitian people.
Listen to the Haitian media. Ask the citizens: the real information is that their hope is the replacement of this de facto power by a government resulting from a national consensus and which would then be likely to lead the country towards real elections and to fight against crime , which is largely a consequence of the political situation.
The real news remains the discontent of Haitians, their demand for political change, which today takes the form of calls for the departure of the de facto government accompanied by strikes and demonstrations.
Par Lionel Trouillot
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Poet, novelist, literary critic and screenwriter, Lyonel Trouillot studied law.
