Germany - Haiti Observer Blog

Less than a century before the shameful injustice the Nazis would inflict upon a people, Germany busied itself humiliated Haiti for showing allegiance to the wrong side in the French-Prussian war. After successfully strong-arming the smaller country into making payment on their debts to German merchants with high indemnities, the German's ended the seizure of the Haitian warships, used as leverage, by returning the ships with their Haitian flags trampled and smeared with feces.

This was, however, not to be enough. Emile Lüders, child of a Haitian mother and German father, was arrested and sentenced to jail for thirty days after beating a Haitian soldier. After an appeal he was fined to a year's jail-time on the 14th of October 1897. After forcing the Haitian Government and the then President, Simon Sam, into pardoning Lüders, Germany demanded to have all the police and judges involved in the case fired in accordance to the initial request which the Haitian government had ignored.

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Pamela White was among the three new ambassadors to Haiti along with Peter Klaus from Germany and Maria Barrios from Honduras. Pamela was sworn in as the new US ambassador by president Obama taking over from Kenneth H. Merten, who has to been transferred to Croatia for the same diplomatic post. She was received cordially by Haitian President, Michael Martelly, in a ceremony held on the 3rd of August, 2012.

For a long time, Mrs. Pamela White has been an outstanding US representative in the international Diaspora and she was recently serving as the US ambassador in Gambia before being transferred to Haiti. She was also the Mission Director of the US Agency for International Development in Liberia, where she made invaluable contribution to the project's success.

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Friday, the 3rd of August saw appointment of three top notch ambassador s to Haiti. Among them was Klaus Peter Schick who is to take over the responsibility as the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany. The list of the new ambassadors also included María E. Barrios Aleman of Honduras and US Ambassador to Haiti, Pamela White.

Accrediting the new appointees from the three states, President Michael Martelly expressed his gratitude for the new appointees and pointed out that him and his government officials were ready to work hand in with Klaus Peter Schick and the other two appointees for the betterment of Haiti. According to him, establishing a cordial relationship between Haiti and the states being represented by the three ambassadors will be the cornerstone to Haiti's economic growth and the overall social welfare of its countrymen.

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