[News] Haiti: Yvon Neptune's Letter From Jail

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The Haiti Action Committee is forwarding this impassioned appeal from
Marguerite Laurent --

Help save Yvon Neptune's life - Yvon Neptune's Letter From Jail - 2/24/05
(English translation below)

Prime Minister Yvon Neptune has been on a hunger strike since the February
19, 2005 prison release that was, as reported by Anel Belizaire, intended as
a cover to mask his assassination in the chaos. The eight months of
incarceration, many attempts on his life and the deprivations of prison
shackles in Haiti, along with this hunger strike has taken its toll on the
health of Yvon Neptune. This morning doctors had to be called to his cell.
He is in critical condition and his family worries he won't live much
longer.

Today HLLN went to Washington and made an urgent appeal to the Haiti Task
Force of the Congressional Black Caucus to do something to help save the
life of Yvon Neptune. We brought them Yvon Neptune's letter and delivered it
into the U.S. Congressional record at a briefing on the situation in Haiti.

Below is the Prime Minister's perhaps last words, written from prison, after
more than 8-months of being held without formal charges or trial.

It's difficult to stand idle as an innocent and noble man's life ebbs slowly
but surely away as a result of the Bush Administration intentionally
plunging into the backs of the Haitian majority this horrific cancer of
lawlessness, repression, violence and inhumanity. The neocon imperialist
shot Latortue's sick regime into Haiti's bloodstream by overwhelming and
unmerciless force. But they say it is for our "own good" and in the best
interests of Haitian justice and democracy!!! Such malevolence and insult to
our intelligence is without peer.

This Coup d'etat cannot metastasize further.

One year of pure barbarity, terror and crime is absolutely much more than
enough. Far, far too many innocent Haitians, human beings, have died
senselessly, pointlessly and apathetically.

We urge everyone to demand that the United States take away its dirty
syringe and send it on back to Boca Raton. Or better yet, some prison, we
suggest Guantanamo Bay, for crimes against humanity. A place where even U.S.
citizen, nor anyone else for that matter, will have to absorb such terror,
ugliness. Certainly Haiti's starving and already traumatized boys and girs
bear this U.S.-imposed burden much longer. It's beleaguered-in-tribulations
adults neither.

Help save Yvon Neptune's life. Please contact the people and organizations
Prime Minister Neptune has addressed his letter to below. Ask them to save
Neptune's life by demanding his immediate and unconditional release from
prison in Haiti. The U.S.-backed Latortue/Apaid/Gousse/Foley regime in
Haiti, have revealed themselves, in the year since the Coup d'etat, to be
competent only in violence, subterfuge, lies, shooting-dead young unarmed
Black boys, unarmed demonstrators and at arming and rewarding their thugs,
killers, convicts and mercenaries who keep them in power through the use of
naked force.

Cite the Miami Law Center report and the recent February 28, 2005 shooting
of unarmed demonstrators as an example of the anarchic conditions,
lawlessness and ranpant human rights abuses.

According to Bel Air residence we interviewed, the February 28, 2005
shooting, was done by CIMO and SWAT Units, and their civilian attaches
(especially the four A.S.-DDO operatives, known to Haitian victims as: Jean
Yves “Nasson” Gerald; Narage “Eleus” Laguerre; St. Gor “Père 
Reklè”
Clermond; and, “Gwo Fanfan.” ). These four men were among the six men, in
the white, unmarked pickup Chevrolet truck, that stopped at the corner of
Rue Des Cèsars and Rue Des Front-Forts and began shooting indiscriminately
at the unarmed Bel Air demonstrators on February 28, 2005 in plain sight of
the international media and U.N. troops.

According to their victims, the people of Bel Air recognized these four
Direction Departementale De L’Ouest ("DDO") attaches as part of the shooters
who fired into the crowd on February 28, killing at least 5 people and
wounding over 15 because these four civilian attaches to the Haitian police,
these alleged four murderers, are routinely sent on killing and arson sprees
into their neighborhoods with total impunity and in plain sight of MINUSTHA
troops. On February 28, 2004 at the peaceful demonstration even though the
international media was present, along with human rights advocates, these
four still were able to kill with impunity.

Bel Aire residents say the four work for the police station in
Port-au-Prince that is under the command of Leon Charles, Director General
of Haiti's police force and which main police station is under the
jurisdiction of Coup D’etat government employee, Renand Etienne, the head of
DDO. These civilian attaches to the DDO wear no uniform and are simply
identified as A.S.-D.D.O. ­ that is Attaché Special to the DDO.
These are the freedom fighters of Mr. Bush and Latorture. These terrorists
are the ugly epidemic unleashed on the people of Haiti. Please, your efforts
to save the lives of the people of Bel Air, of Prime Minister Yvon Neptune
are critical. MINUSTHA has no facility to hold these murderers. When they
are caught by MINUSTHA killing the Haitian people, all U.N. troops can do is
turned them over to the very people who hired them. And, in just hours, as
the people of Bel Air, recount, these men are out and doubly committed to
the madness of killing, killing, which they are well paid to do.

Bush took away Haiti's fledging democracy and replaced it with this
Latorture death and killing regime. The people of Haiti cannot go to
MINUSTHA for help as outlined above and cannot go to Latortue for justice.
The only thing we can do is stop this from its source - The United States.
Our government unleashed this Coup d'etat and must now stop the bloodshed -
let this begin with the saving of Yvon Neptune's life. (Some contact info
provided below. Thank you.)

Lit la red pou Ayisyen. Ann sonje, men anpil chaj pa lou!

Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
March 2, 2005

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