Kenyan police officer killed in Haiti
Featured image: Kenyan police officers next to armored vehicles on their base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Source: AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph.
On January Kenya reinforced its deployment in Haiti with additional 200 police officers. On Sunday a Kenyan police was killed in a shooting in the western Artibonite region of Haiti. Allegedly the police officer participated in an armed clash with “gangs”.
Concerns roused after this new casualty in the ranks of the occupation. According to bourgeois reports, the mission has faced logistical difficulties: “Reports in August 2024 indicated that Kenyan officers had gone months without receiving full pay, fueling frustrations. Officers deployed in June expected higher salaries due to the mission’s intensity.” Other Kenyan State officials even state that Kenya should “reevaluate the entire exercise”.
As we already reported, the Kenyan repressive forces has a long and well-known history of repression against its own people: “According to a report from the New York Times, the Kenyan police force is accused of killing more than 100 people this year, and for shooting and beating hundreds of protesters. In 2021, two people were killed by the police after being arrested for violation a COVID curfew.”
When the anew imperialist intervention in Haiti was framed, it was reported that Kenya would provide the ground troops, so that Yankee imperialism could handle the situation there without getting ‘dirty’ and then being able to unleash a brutal repression. Then, it was announced that 1,000 Kenyan police officers would be sent to the Caribbean country. The henchmen of imperialists, such as the former Prime Minister Ariel Henry, welcomed the murderous Kenyan police and all the invaders by stating that “only a robust internationally backed security operation can restore normality in Haiti”.
Many other lackeys of Yankee imperialism have offered to send their troops to Haiti to collaborate with the repression and occupation of the country, such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica. There are still many troops lacking to reach the 2,500 men pledged by various countries, including Chad, Benin, Bangladesh and Barbados for the mission.
