HAITIANS IN U.S. PROTEST KENYA’S RUTO

A group of Haitians called Kenyan President William Ruto a ‘slave’ on 23 May for trying to push through a US-backed and -funded deployment of Kenyan police officers to the Caribbean state that Western enslavement, occupation and interference has ravaged for centuries.

Kenyan critics’ litigation to stop the government’s plan has delayed Ruto’s effort to deploy police. Haitians, too, have said they don’t want foreign police or military on their soil, as past occupations have brought deaths, sexual assaults and diseases. Further, many have questioned how Haiti can agree to a deployment without a working national assembly.

This protest in Washington occurred during Ruto’s state visit to the United States