Criminal Case Against Aristide Planned in Haiti

[eablair3]

this is just incredible. these people that are behind this should be strung up. Unbelievable how they have demonized Aristide. And, now the "national unity" government installed by the U.S. is doing this, with the U.S. installed justice minister. This will surely cause all Haitians to unite -yeah right.

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Criminal Case Against Aristide Planned in Haiti

Justice minister says the exiled president was 'the architect' of political oppression.

By Henry Chu, Times Staff Writer


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As international peacekeeping troops began fanning out across this battered nation, the country's new justice minister said Friday that his office would begin preparing a criminal case against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and could eventually request his extradition.

"It's too early to say that tomorrow I will ask for his extradition, but we will build a case, because he was the architect" of efforts to brutally crush his opponents, said Bernard Gousse, Haiti's new top justice official. In addition to human-rights violations, Aristide is suspected of stealing state funds, he said.

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Aristide, who was elected to a second term as president four years ago, was flown into exile Feb. 29 after an armed rebellion erupted. Scores of Haitians died in clashes, and bands of gun-toting thugs loyal to Aristide, known as chimeres, were accused of looting and killing.

Opponents of the fallen government have called for rounding up and prosecuting the chimeres for alleged human-rights abuses. Newly appointed "truth commissions" are to go after not just the street toughs but also "the masterminds," Gousse said, in an allusion to high-ranking officials of Aristide's administration, many of whom have gone underground or fled since the government was toppled.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-haiti20mar20,1,3205841.story?coll=la-headlines-world

[eablair3]

1. if you want some truth on Aristide - listen to Flashpoints

The demonizaiton of Aristide has been going on for years. By the Repugs and by the wealthy in Haiti, who don't like the rights and empowerment that he was making for the poor.

If you want to hear direct from the mouths of those who know and who worked in Haiti for many years, please listen in to some of the archives at Flashpoints, which can be found here:

http://www.flashpoints.net/

I'd recommend listening to the March 19 2004 show where they interview a priest who has been working in Haiti for many years, and they asked him about Aristide and about all the things they are saying about him. The priest can't believe it. This show is at this audio link (hope it works):

http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=209.81.10.18&port=80&mount=/data/20040319-Fri1700.mp3

Here's a couple more links about the demonization of Aristide, if any are interested:

Enemy Ally: The Demonization of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
http://www.fair.org/extra/9411/aristide-demonization.html.
Good article by FAIR from Nov/Dec 1994 showing the demonization, even being done then, on the priest of the poor in Haiti.

Debunking the Media's Lies about President Aristide
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Felux0314.htm
Dated March 14, 2004. Another good article on the media's performance in the current Feb/Mar 2004 regime change in Haiti.

[Dover]

2. Criminal Cases Against Bu$hCo planned in U.S.....story at eleven.

The list of Bushco crimes is long, but Human Rights Violations is at the top.

[DulceDecorum]

3. The trouble with US based "security companies"

is that they often seem to turn up whenever a government is being removed from power.

Jan Breytenbach, founder of South Africa's infamous apartheid-era Battalion 32, a mercenary group, warns that today's seemingly upstanding private-security firms will employ ex-soldiers "under false pretenses" in order to get them involved in clandestine operations. "You can think you're being hired to protect a diamond mine," he says, "but then you end up fighting other people" - or participating in a coup. He cautions ex-military men: "It's better to stay out of this stuff all together; otherwise you'll get caught with your pants down."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0315/p06s03-woaf.html

As Haiti plunges deeper into chaos, as U.S. Marines exchange fire with gunmen in Port-au-Prince and as ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continues to insist from exile that he was kidnapped by U.S. forces, the head of the San Francisco company that protected Aristide for the past six years wants to set the record straight.
"We did our job," said Kenn Kurtz, chief executive of the Steele Foundation, which had provided security for Aristide since 1998. "Our job was to protect the president from assassination, kidnapping and embarrassment. That’s what we did."
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Kurtz refused to discuss Steele’s role in Haiti now that Aristide is, physically at least, out of the picture. But he acknowledged that the company’s contract calls for it to protect Haiti’s head of state (whoever that may be), as well as former President Rene Preval (who is apparently still in the country) and their families.
"The contract hasn’t changed," Kurtz said.
http://www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=1725

"As always, should you or any of your I. M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five/ten seconds. Good luck, Jim."

The ultimate test of a company’s strength is not what they say they can accomplish, but what they do accomplish. To verify a company’s strength, customers should check its past performance record. Previous customers should speak highly of their vendor in all areas of contract operation – daily responsibilities, emergency response, problem resolution, and reporting reliability. It’s also worth asking how many of the contracts won were re-competes, in which the customer decided to sign up for another extended period of time.
http://govtsecurity.securitysolutions.com/ar/security_manpower_hire_contract/

Steele Foundation: You're HIRED.

[MrPrax]

4. This tactic could have been predicted...

In fact a few have predicted a certain blowback effect from using/abusing human rights tribunals:

"IS THE ICC (INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT) AN ANSWER TO ABUSES OF HAGUE 'TRIBUNAL'?
- An exchange with a reader

by Jared Israel

from a most interesting article that questions certain weaknesses in an ICC approach to international crime

"While that makes the ICC harder to attack, it does not necessarily make it better than the Hague and Rwanda 'tribunals'. The function of the Hague 'tribunal,' for example, is to a) punish Yugoslav leaders who have resisted the New World Empire's efforts to break up Yugoslavia and to b) provide a compliant media with sound bites, images, and judicial-sounding statements to indoctrinate tens of millions of people with the false impression that the Yugoslav resistance is racist, anti-humanitarian, etc.

But with the ICC, just as with the Hague 'tribunal,' the prosecutors will in fact represent the great powers. How can it be otherwise? Just as, since the demise of the USSR, the UN has come largely under the domination of the New World Empire, so the staff of the ICC will be dominated by the covert apparatus of the Empire, including NGOs funded directly or indirectly by the Empire, and supposed humanitarian groups, like Human Rights Watch which, if you examine their directors, you will find are dominated by the US foreign policy elite.

This Imperial-dominated court will have the media's ear, whereas target countries will be much weaker, perhaps already demonized in the Western media, attacked by pro-Imperial forces from within, lacking the resources and media connections to counter campaigns of accusation and innuendo aimed at proving they are the "latest Nazis led by the latest Hitler."

Thus a legally constituted body such as the ICC will, I am afraid, be used for precisely the same purposes as the Hague 'tribunal.' The main difference: instead of being limited to Yugoslavia, the ICC will be able to single out any country that dares to resist Imperial plans. For example, should the Empire use some group - with grievances real, or imagined, or both - as a wedge to destroy some nation, covertly encouraging terrorist actions, while publicly calling for 'dialogue,' and should that nation's leaders think of resisting, the threat of indictment can be employed to make them think twice. And once some leaders or soldiers or whomever are indicted and perhaps destroyed by the ICC, the threat won't have to be actually made in order to be effective. Thus we have judicial terror effecting Imperial goals. "
more
with some great links to this thorny issue at the bottom
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/schmitz.htm

Food for Thought...
any system of justice will really be only as good as the people administering it...

[Tinoire]

5. This is just too sick. Please read.

The Gousse family are Duvalieriste from way back. I know his family and was actually pretty close to his sister (as young girls can be) but damn!


Damn damn damn! While googling for him (you know how one thing leads to another) I went into shock!

They changed the name of Marc Henri Bazin from Marc Bazin as he was known to now "Henri Bazin". Truly sick. The IMF's man in power again.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 17 (AFP) - Haiti's new government was to be sworn in Wednesday, one day after Prime Minister Gerard Latortue completed the formation of a cabinet of 13 ministers he hopes will help restore stability to the violence-wracked Caribbean country.

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The ministers were to be sworn in at the presidential palace on Wednesday afternoon.
Former armed forces chief Herard Abraham, 63, will head the interior and national security ministry, a key post in a deeply polarized country that has been rocked by deadly violence in recent weeks. The retired general, who headed the armed forces from 1988 to 1991, is considered a moderate politician. (By effing whom?! Not by the Haitian people who forced him into exile for his crimes against the people!)

French-educated economist Yvon Simeon, 66, will head the foreign ministry. Simeon, who is close to Aristide's political opponents, has notably worked as a charge d'affaires in France and Belgium and as a consultant in Paris.
The Economy and Finance ministry goes to Henri Bazin, 70, an economist specialized in third world affairs who worked for the United Nations.

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http://www.ttc.org/200403171722.i2hhmfk06645.htm

Now here is what has me fuming. LIVID and fuming!

M. Henri Bazin. Marc Henri Bazin. = Effing MARC BAZIN

http://membres.lycos.fr/undhcap/Syllabus/Syllabus%20RelEcoInt%204A.htm

For those who can read French. Here are posts from Haitians about that lying, ready-to-sell the entire country up the river Marc Bazin the technocrat: http://www.oplpeople.com/message/335.html

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Tuesday December 18, 1990 (Excerpt)

Lorry-loads of police moved to control the crowds of slum dwellers in Latin America's poorest country as they surged past the presidential palace, dancing and singing. A pregnant woman was shot dead when police opened fire in front of a church. Her husband said they fired two shots into her at close range after she fell, then drove their pickup truck over her body. An opposition alliance led by a former World Bank official, Marc Bazin, said it would ask for the vote in Haiti's most populous region to be declared void.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1159637,00.html

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A humble 37-year-old former parish priest is Haiti's president. Survivor of five assassination attempts, repudiated by the Catholic church hierarchy, expelled from the Salesian order, Jean Bertrand Aristide amply defeated Marc Bazin, the Washington favourite whose electoral campaign was financed with over US$1 million.

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Aristide's first achievement was the registration of 90% of potential voters. His government program was simple: agrarian reform, popular participation in the country's administration, priority for basic grains cultivation to feed the people and the country's modernisation.

A common rumour had it that the elections were fixed and the winner would be the pro-US candidate, Marc Bazin, a former IMF official and candidate for the right-wing Alliance for Democracy.

Aristide's program succeeded in bringing together the most diverse sectors of Haitian society, from illiterate peasants and farm workers to students, intellectuals and some sectors of the bourgeoisie. The result was a sweeping victory (67 per cent of the votes cast as opposed to 16 per cent for Bazin) which destroyed the Haitian oligarchy's scheme and the United States' plans.

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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/03/03p14.htm

President: last held 16 December 1990 (next election to be held by
December 1995); results - Rev. Jean-Bertrand ARISTIDE 67.5%, Marc BAZIN 14.2%,
Louis DEJOIE 4.9%
http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact93/wf940255.txt

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<snip>

In Haiti, the IMF sponsored "free market" reforms have been carried out consistently since the Duvalier era. They have been applied in several stages since the first election of president Aristide in 1990.

The 1991 military coup, which took place 8 months following Jean Bertrand Aristide's accession to the presidency, was in part intended to reverse the government's progressive reforms and reinstate the neoliberal policy agenda of the Duvalier era.

A former World Bank official Mr. Marc Bazin was appointed Prime minister by the Military Junta in June 1992. In fact, it was the US State Department which sought his appointment.

Bazin had a track record of working for the "Washington consensus." In 1983, he had been appointed Finance Minister under the Duvalier regime. In fact he had been recommended to the Finance portfolio by the IMF: "President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier had agreed to the appointment of an IMF nominee, former World Bank official Marc Bazin, as Minister of Finance". (Mining Annual Review, June, 1983). Bazin, who was considered Washington's "favorite", later ran against Aristide in the 1990 presidential elections.

Bazin, was called in by the Military Junta in 1992 to form a so-called "consensus government". It is worth noting that it was precisely during Bazin's term in office as Prime Minister that the political massacres and extra judicial killings by the CIA supported FRAPH death squadrons were unleashed, leading to the killing of more than 4000 civilians. Some 300,000 people became internal refugees, "thousands more fled across the border to the Dominican Republic, and more than 60,000 took to the high seas" (Statement of Dina Paul Parks, Executive Director, National Coalition for Haitian Rights, Committee on Senate Judiciary, US Senate, Washington DC, 1 October 2002). Meanwhile, the CIA had launched a smear campaign representing Aristide as "mentally unstable" (Boston Globe, 21 Sept 1994).

<snip>

The last elections took place in November 2000. Aristide won his second non-consecutive term amid allegations of irregularities by the US and the opposition. Marc Bazin, a former World Bank official backed by the White House, won only 14 percent of the votes. To the dismay of Washington, Aristide was president again.

<snip>

Must read article: http://translations.indymedia.org/Translations/1078462268/index_html

And this one too: http://ftaaimc.org/en/2004/03/3817.shtml

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June 10, 1992

Marc Bazin is ratified by coup leaders as the de facto prime minister. Bazin had been the U.S.-favored presidential candidate in the 1990 elections.

June 1993

De Facto Prime Minister Marc Bazin resigns. U.S. steps up pressure on President Aristide to negotiate with coup leaders to form a new government.



http://haitireborn.org/campaigns/hsw-2003/basic-soc-ec-indicators.php
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Lieutanant-General Raoul Cedras.


Lt-General Cedras is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Haiti (FAD'H). He has held this position since July 1991 when he was appointed by President Aristide. When Prime Minister Marc Bazin stepped down from power, Lt-General Cedras became the DeFacto leader of Haiti. He was also the Haitian representative in the New York talks with President Aristide. Lt-General Cedras has agreed to resign upon President Aristide's return to Haiti.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1994/call-haiti-94-3_chp1.htm

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Refugees soon started fleeing again, because the situation was deteriorating rapidly. The first Bush administration instituted a blockade to send them back. Within a couple of months, the first Bush administration also had undermined an embargo put in place by the Organization of American States (which the US supposedly supported) by allowing US-owned companies to simply ignore it. The New York Times called this "fine-tuning" the embargo to improve the restoration of democracy. Eventually, Marc Bazin, the US candidate, was in power as prime minister, with the ruling generals behind him.

During the Clinton years, not much changed in Haiti. Although Clinton attacked the first Bush administration for its inhumane policy of returning refugees, which was a clear violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he did little to change it. Indeed, some charge that he promoted it even further.

Ultimately, there was substantial international pressure to have Aristide returned to power. Not only this, but Clinton came up with a shrewd plan to undermine his political opponents at home, who wanted Aristide to stay out, while at the same time elevate his reputation on the international stage. Aristide would be returned to power but on very strict conditions; namely, that he accept the policies of the candidate the US had supported in the 1990 Haitian election. ((Marc Bazin aka Henri Bazin - something negociated by none less than Jimmy Carter)).

The pig fiasco

In effect, Aristide was to accept a neo-liberalist program which would open Haiti up to what is known as "market forces". For example, Haitian rice producers would have to compete with US agribusiness, which happens to be very highly subsidized. As a result, Haiti, a starving island, ended up exporting 35 times more food to the US under Clinton than it did under the first Bush.

Many Haitians are well aware of the effects of globalisation on their country. Haiti's first traumatic experience of globalization was with the extermination of their Creole pigs. The experience left such an impression that whenever peasants are told that "economic reform" and privatisation will benefit them, they shake their heads and remember the pig fiasco.

<snip / This article will bring any populist to tears, especially the part about the pigs>

http://www.weblog.ro/soj/2004/03/04

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On the eve of the election, former US Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, visited Aristlde and asked him to sign a letter accepting Marc Bazin, the US-backed and funded candidate, as president should Bazin win. Young reportedly said there was fear that if Aristide lost, his followers would take to the streets and reject the results. Young was said to be acting on behalf of his mentor, former president Jimmy Carter, but presumably the White House also had their finger in the pie, evidencing their concern about Aristide's charisma and potential as a leader outside their control.

Desplte a campaign marred by terror and intimidation, nearly a thousand UN and Organizatlon of American States (OAS) observers and an unusually scrupulous Haitian general insured that a relatively honest balloting took place, in which Aristide was victorious wlth 67.5 percent of the vote.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Haiti_KH.html

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Aristide returns
In September 1994 an opposed invasion of Haiti by US forces was averted after an agreement, brokered by former US president Jimmy Carter, was reached with the island's military leaders. The USA landed 15,000 troops without bloodshed, insisting that Haiti adopt a structural adjustment programme of privatizing assets, removing trade tariffs, and not raising the minimum wage. The FRAPH death squads were not disarmed, and US aid was targeted to counter nationalist and revolutionary movements. In October Cedras, who had agreed to relinquish power in return for an amnesty, withdrew into exile in Panama. In the same month, President Aristide returned. He gave up his priesthood to concentrate on the presidency, and nominated Michel Smarck as premier. An electoral commission was appointed to organize free elections, and in March 1995 US troops handed over to a UN peacekeeping force, which was to oversee the island's more complete transition to democracy. Prior to their arrival, there had been concern over a breakdown of law and order, after several political assassinations. The pro-Aristide Lavalas Political Organization coalition won the June and September 1995 legislative elections, amid opposition claims of electoral fraud. Claudette Werleigh was appointed premier in November, and the following month Rene Preval, a Lavalas candidate, was elected president. In February 1996, in the first peaceful handover to an elected president since independence, Preval succeeded Aristide.

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019787.html
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Jean-Claude (Duvalier) was not the political operator that his father was. He liked fast cars, women, and bundles of money to indulge his interests in both. Nor did he share his father’s loyalty to the grandons. So when the U.S. began to offer assistance with the bothersome business of governance, and sweetened the deal with money, Baby Doc quickly acquiesced to the demands of U.S. capital. One of those demands was the appointment as Finance Minister of a very smooth, very articulate Haitian technocrat who worked with the World Bank, Marc Bazin. We shall see Mr. Bazin again... and again.

<snip>
The brightest and most ambitious opportunists in Haiti have seen the handwriting on the wall, and they are aligning with the financial technocrats... like Marc Bazin. This technocratic, transnational, economic managerial class is often referred to popularly as neo-liberal. It will resort to the gun, but its weapons of choice are debt and economic blackmail.

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The U.S. was casting around for a good leader, someone who could manage the transition to an elected government of technocrats, and bring Haiti on line with the rapidly globalizing economy. The State Department decided that Marc Bazin, World Bank technocrat extraodinaire, should become the first democratically elected president of Haiti. During the preceding four years of relative instability, as they crisis-managed their way through one coup after another, the State Department was spending an enormous sum through various proxies to extol the savior status of Marc Bazin to the Haitian masses.

To further ensure the palatability of Bazin, the State Department quietly supported the opposition candidacy of a widely loathed organized crime boss named Roger Lafontant. The U.S. wanted Bazin to be as obvious a choice as possible on a deliberately limited list. ((Enter that damned Leftist Aristide upsetting all their carefully laid plans))

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In June, 1992, the coup government invested Marc Bazin with the title of prime minister. He accepted. In June, 1993, just four days after the U.S. announced sanctions against coup supporters, Bazin resigned.

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Ever the neo-liberal technocrat non pariel, Clinton began studying ways to bring an election to Haiti. A deal was struck between the Clinton Administration, Aristide (whose arm was mightily twisted), and the Haitian de facto government in June, 1993 at Governor’s Island, New York. It was a masterpiece of neo-liberal sophistry. It called for reinstatement of Aristide, but also called for a number of questionable parliamentary reforms and blanket amnesty for the military. Cedras was offered a golden parachute. Aristide was required to be reinstated by October, 1993.

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Haiti shocked the New World Order neo-liberals in 1990. Aristide was offered up as a candidate for president under the banner of the Lavalas Movement-meaning The Flood. Lavalas was a potent coalition between the peasants and the petit bourgeoisie. Aristide won with such overwhelming numbers, and with such a late candidacy, that the U.S. Embassy was helpless to adjust the results. Aritside was a liberation theologian. He was a populist. And he was a nationalist. No combination of tendencies could have alarmed the U.S. more-unless Aristide had declared himself a Marxist in the bargain... which he is not.

A thoroughly chagrined U.S. delegation, including neo-liberal messiah Jimmy Carter, stalked away from the elections and began busily plotting.

<snip>

Miraculously, a delegation consisting of Jimmy Carter (again), Sam Nunn, and Colin Powell secured the rather mysterious last minute capitulation that authorized the permissive entry of U.S. troops with the signature of an illegitimate Haitian President, Emile Jonaissant. The credulous U.S. press never questioned the miraculous-ness of this whole episode.

<snip>

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/399.html

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I think this post is long enough. Let me just add one thing. The night before the elections in which Aristide crushed Bazin by over 67%, Carter was telling Aristide that he didn't have a chance & to please pull out of the race.

The truth about what is going on in Haiti is dirtier than all lies.

Bazin, that shit-face, is a cousin of mine by marriage. I KNEW his ugly head was going to surface in this. I am LIVID. I could have summed it all up in a paragraph but wanted to give you the links.

He's a smooth-talking, charismatic, intelligent, neo-con who will sell the entire country down the river.

[plurality]

6. and notice Jimmy Carter's name in there so prominently

Fuck Carter and his bullshit Carter Center. He's a fraud with a peace prize just like Kissinger and Arafat. Someone can spew BS about human rights all he wants, but Carter has shown from Bryzenski to the Western Hemisphere that he's a fucking fraud.

[Tinoire]

7. Yeah but you have to go real gently with that

Carter is as good as most thinks it got in our corrupted system.

What a sad state of affairs!

[plurality]

8. yes indeed

It's like we live and Rome and Nero just became emperor and the best anyone can do is say, "Well at least he's not Caligula!"

[Suspicious]

9. Yes.

Nothing irritates me more than people who repeat (over and over and over again), "It must have been a fair election, the Carter Center said so," or, "It was a fraudulent election, the Carter Center said so."

:eyes:

[AP]

14. The problem with NGOs: they can't survive without corporate support.

We don't need privatep-sector financed NGOs. We need GOs which actually represent the intersts of a majority of their citizens and are run by democratically elected politicians.

[seemslikeadream]

10. URGENT ACTION ALERT Organizational Petition on Haiti

For organizations and institutions working for global justice

Dear friends and supporters of Haiti:

We are all deeply troubled by the daily horrors of civil unrest in cities across Haiti costing the lives of hundreds and thousands of Haitians. The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Haiti by a superpower like the U.S. is a dangerous precedent. We need to send a clear message to the Bush administration that such actions are unacceptable, and we will hold accountable those responsible for these acts of injustice.

You will find below a petition letter that expresses our sentiments of outrage on the act by the U.S. government to depose the leader of a sovereign state. President Jean Bertrand Aristide is the choice of the Haitian people, and only they should have the final say on electing their leader.

We ask you to sign the petition asking for immediate and unconditional re-instatement of President Aristide of Haiti. We are also demanding an investigation into the role of the Bush administration in violating international laws. We will use this letter to support current demands for Congressional investigation.

Congressmembers Barbara Lee and John Conyers, along with 24 of their colleagues, have proposed the TRUTH Act, which calls for such an investigation. (Non-profit organizations need not be concerned about violating the "advocacy on legislation" clause of their 501(c)(3). The petition does not mention this or any other specific bill before Congress.)

http://www.sfbayview.com/031704/urgentaction031704.shtml

[struggle4progress]

11. Pre-emptive Distraction?

About a week ago HRW called for arrest of a number of Aristide opponents:

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To allow them to move about freely, under the eyes of U.S. troops, is likely to further destabilize the country and result in continued violence.
The most notorious of these men is Louis Jodel Chamblain, the apparent second in command to rebel leader Guy Philippe. Chamblain, one of the founders of the violent paramilitary group known as the Revolutionary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress (FRAPH), during the 1991-1994 military government in Haiti, was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1993 murder of Antoine Izméry, a well-known pro-democracy activist, and for involvement in the 1994 Raboteau massacre. As you know, under Haitian law, perpetrators convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial. We urge you to ensure that Chamblain is arrested and detained until his retrial occurs.
Another member of the insurgent forces with a history of violent abuses is Jean Pierre Baptiste, alias Jean Tatoune. Tatoune, a local FRAPH leader during the 1991-1994 military government, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 Raboteau massacre. He escaped from prison in Gonaives in August 2002, as part of a mass prison break, and later joined the insurgent group now known as the Artibonite Resistance Front.
You may also be aware that a number of men implicated in serious human rights crimes were freed from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince on February 29. They include Jackson Joanis, a former commander of the notoriously abusive Investigations and Anti-Gang Service during the military government, who was convicted in absentia of the 1993 murder of Antoine Izmery; Jean-Claude Duperval, deputy commander-in-chief of the Haitian army during the military government, who was convicted in absentia of the 1994 Raboteau massacre; Hébert Valmond, lieutenant colonel and head of military intelligence, who was convicted in absentia of the Raboteau massacre, and Carl Dorelien, a former army colonel who was convicted in absentia of the Raboteau massacre. All four of these men were previously deported from the United States.
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http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/10/haiti8103.htm

[seemslikeadream]

12. I wonder what these guys would think about that!

Louis-Jodel Chamblain




Guy Philippe

[Rex]

13. So will we invade Jamaica if they don't hand him over?

Who will stop this madness???

[struggle4progress]

15. kick

:kick: