[News] Human Rights Team Finds US-backed Haitian Govt Culpable in Lasalin Massacre

[Anti-Imperialist News]

_*Human Rights Team Finds US-Backed Haitian Government Culpable in 
Lasalin Massacre *_Download Report here <http://bit.ly/2JyAEr6>_*
*_

Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild [NLG] is 
releasing a new report /The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis 
in Haiti/ <http://bit.ly/2JyAEr6>about the November 2018 massacre in the 
neighborhood of Lasalin, Port-au-Prince.  The report provides evidence 
of other subsequent massacres and human rights violations facilitated 
and supported by the government of Jovenel Moise and his ruling PHTK party.

The report is co-authored by Judith Mirkinson, President of the San 
Francisco chapter of the NLG, and Seth Donnelly, a member of Haiti 
Action Committee. Other members of the team include Margaret Prescod, an 
investigative journalist based in Los Angeles and producer of the 
Sojourner Truth radio program nationally syndicated on Pacifica, as well 
as Ramiro Funez, assistant producer of the Sojourner Truth program.

On April 1, 2019 our team went to Lasalin and interviewed survivors and 
eye-witnesses of the November massacre. The report demonstrates that the 
Lasalin massacre - rather than simply an example of “gang violence” as 
portrayed by the Haitian government and some US media sources - was in 
fact an attack facilitated by government officials and directly 
conducted by Haitian National Police [HNP] officers working closely with 
paramilitary elements logistically supported by the PHTK. Lasalin was 
targeted because it is a base of protests and opposition against the 
Moise government. Perpetrators of the massacre destroyed homes, burned 
people alive, hacked people to death, fed body parts to pigs and dogs, 
and raped women. People of all ages, including a 10 month old child, 
were systematically butchered

The report examines how the US government has continued to 
diplomatically and economically support the Moise government, despite 
clear evidence of its human rights violations.  US support for the Moise 
government includes millions of US tax dollars to fund and train the 
HNP, despite its well-documented participation in brutality, killings of 
unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, 
and massacres such as the Lasalin massacre. The police and Moise 
government have also been politically, economically, and logistically 
supported by the United Nations occupation forces in Haiti, MINUJUSTH. 
The report concludes: *“As the toll mounts from the atrocities committed 
in Lasalin, it is time for both the United States and the United Nations 
to be held to task for their continued support of the repressive and 
illegitimate regime now in power in Haiti. The people of Haiti deserve 
the right to live without the daily threat of state-directed violence.”*

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sent by Haiti Action Committee
www.haitisolidarity.net <http://www.haitisolidarity.net>


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