Haitian Crisis Is Proof Of Colonialism’s Continuing Lethal Impact

By Derek Royden\PeaceVoice Photos: YouTube Screenshots According to a recent United Nations report there are more armed conflicts throughout the world today than during the 2nd World War. These hostilities don’t always concern opposing nations or coalitions of them as in the past but are in the main being fought against insurgencies and even heavily armed criminal groups.  In other words, civil wars, at times stoked by other states or foreign interests, are the most common form of warfare and there are more countries suffering from some form of war than even during “World Wars.” Despite this, for the last few years, most of the developed world’s attention has been focused on just two main conflicts. The first, more conventional one in Ukraine, has lost a lot of the spotlight since October 7th of last year and is now at best a bloody stalemate with no end in sight. The second, Israel’s continuing siege of Gaza, has launched an impassioned international protest movement the likes of which the world hasn’t seen since the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. North Americans are now also quite focused on Haiti (our “backyard”), where criminal gangs are showing the capability to control...