Kendrick Press release & another HLLN call for help for the children Perlitz abused

Louis and the groups and Haitio forums, You may know that HLLN has stood up for the children abused by Perlitz and others in Haiti, unlike any other and for quite sometime. We have been gathering information for years in order to bring civil lawsuit on behalf of the children.  We need your support and the entire communities support on this. Back in December, I sent out a piece entitled The Collar of Impunity urging our Ezili Network readers and the entire community to step forward and help with basic necessities for the children. You and I have had that conversation. Unfortunately, only a few people like Kendrick sent monies and food to Cyrus for a few of the children since our initial public and widely circulated call for help to meet the basic needs of the children made December, 2009. Our public information shows that Kendrick's survivor of abuse- group raised $6,000 to date. HLLN has also gone on Haitian radio and asked for donation for the children to be sent directly to Haiti. Today, HLLN has secured a litigation partner and since we don't need to concentrate any further on keeping Perlitz behind bars are seriously studying with our lawyers and investigation experts when to file the imminent civil suit on behalf of the abused children. We are very far into this, very far. The community could help by helping Cyrus with food, shelter and counseling for the abuse children while HLLN continues on the legal path towards Fairfield University, Paul Carrier, and the others to make sure that there is concrete restitution. Ezili's Danto's HLLN will not stop mid-way. We will take this to the end, and warn all those who are trying to sabotage either our work or the children's case to stop.  Anyone interested in helping the children with basic necessities, please contact Cyrus Sibert DIRECTLY. We do not wish to make anyone in Haiti DEPENDENT and will not allow that anyone who helps the children with food and counseling to think they may push HLLN's work aside or sabotage the children's legal case with foreign interference in this case. We hear that since the guilty plea there are at least two US lawyers with no Haiti experience trying to sign up the children as clients because they now see money in the case that HLLN has done much heavy lifting on and have NO RESPECT for Haitian professionals. Folks without ethics can make as if we're INVISIBLE with no problem, no matter that HLLN solicited their help to keep the children alive, not to attempt to bring in their lawyer friends to take our place in the legal arena here! If this happens, HLLN, and somehow the children case is sold down the river, HLLN wants the public to know right now why we were not able to intervene and finish what we started on behalf of the abuse children of Perlitz. This development came to our attention only a few days ago and were told "not to interfere!" by a non-lawyer foreign activists and former abused victim we urged to help the children with basic needs HLLN could not provide that we thought was working on the same side as HLLN. The interference, as we've written, is not from HLLN. (See,Douglas Perlitz admits sexually abusing homeless Haiti boys.) The neocolonial paradigm cannot continue. I don't need to explain to the Haitian community what that means - its clear: Douglas Perlitz abuses for 10 years because he has reward power to assuage the poverty and misery of our young boys with food, shelter, "education." Makes them dependent in the most bestial manner. Then another savior kolon comes along, rail against the abuse, but uses the reward power of giving food, shelter and "counseling" to the children to make the victims dependent within a few months and on a $6,000 investment and suddenly has more expertise on Haiti than Haitian lawyers and activists and the Ezili Network which has been on this matter since 2005. Micro to the Macro and you've got the neocolonial paradigm on the Left and Right. We've got to figure out how to break it when it's so clearly presented. Self-reliance must be nurtured, as well as respect and dignity for all Haitians. Please contact erzilidanto@yahoo.com if you'd like to know how to help in this matter more effectively and support HLLN's work in this case. Without our intervention, it's likely Mr. Perlitz could have been released on bail and never have gotten to plead guilty. Please read Ezili Dantò the The Collar of Impunity. As we've previously indicated, as we've shed the advocacy side and formally taken on the legal side now that Mr. Perlitz is definitely behind bars for good, we cannot be ethically be involved directly in collecting funds for the interim needs of the children. So we urge others in the Haitian community to step up and please assist Cyrus Sibert in this. Thank you. HLLN is securing the plaintiffs at the moment and moving forward towards a formal request to Fairfield University and the others. Help with keeping the children alive that doesn't undermine Haiti self-reliance, sovereignty, human rights and dignity is greatly appreciated. Please support Cyrus Sibert's important work with the children. What is precious here that must not be undermined by foreigners or anyone, especially the newly expert to Haiti, is that Cyrus Sibert and Ezili's HLLN are, in many ways in the opposite political spectrum with respect to the UN occupation and the 2004 coup d'etat. Yet, up until now, we've worked TOGETHER because of our joint concern for the children who were abused by Perltiz. This is our common ground. This Haitian alliance must not be shattered by outsiders "saving Haiti" and we truly hope that remains the case. We asked the communities and the Ezili Network's help in supporting Cyrus Sibert's financial ability to help the children survive until our legal intervention is completed. Thank you. Ezili Danto August 31. 2010 The Collar of Impunity: Sexual abuse of Haiti children by Priests, Charity Workers UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children