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</font><h5><b>AHP News - August 24, 2004 – English translation
(Unofficial) <br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2><b>Former Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune says he is a political prisoner of the current government which
he accuses of wishing to destroy Fanmi Lavalas <br>
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</font><h5><b>Port-au-Prince, August 24, 2004 (AHP)- Former Prime
Minister Yvon Neptune indicated Tuesday that he considers himself to be a
political prisoner of the current government whose members and supporters
were actors or accomplices in a modern coup d’Etat which put a
constitutionally elected president on notice that he had to either resign
or be killed. <br><br>
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In a document that has reached AHP, Yvon Neptune communicated his
decision not to collaborate with any hearing based on accusations of a
political nature or with political implications or connotations and that
is conducted in the spirit of political justice of the
moment. <br><br>
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The former Prime Minister, who turned himself in to the police following
accusations made by NCHR that he was involved in an alleged massacre at
La Scierie, spoke out against the conduct of the interim government which
has revealed itself to be actively and viscerally anti-Lavalas in its
plans, its rhetoric and its practices. <br><br>
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The former Prime Minister in the government of President Aristide
recalled that during more than three years of negotiations aimed at
safeguarding the fundamental achievements of Haiti’s democracy and
assuring progress in the process of change for which the Haitian
Constitution is an essential building block, the adversaries of Fanmi
Lavalas chose, he said, to reject every political compromise and decided
to resort to armed violence to achieve their objective.
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According to him, the adversaries of the former government wished to
interrupt constitutional government at any price, ruin the process of the
institutionalization of democracy, neutralize, sap, and infiltrate with
the goal of eliminating Fanmi Lavalas, the majority political
organization. <br><br>
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The current government, supported by its partners of all sorts, has
committed itself to a campaign of systematic political denigration of the
political organization, arrests of its leaders, members and supporters on
the basis of simple fallacious allegations coming from political
adversaries”, he charged. <br><br>
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He added that the enemies of Fanmi Lavalas also engaged in acts of
physical and psychological aggression as well as implicit or explicit
exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas from all the affairs of the State.
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According to Mr. Neptune, one of the most terrifying components of the
plans for the killing of democracy by this self-proclaimed
techno-democratic government is the fact that it cloaks itself in
judicial garb in its attempt to camouflage the infernal machine launched
tirelessly, he said, against Fanmi Lavalas. <br><br>
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"The money from truants, smugglers, traffickers and
speculators of all sorts, and the political interests of some
affluent members of the government have constantly rigged the scales of
justice”, asserted Yvon Neptune. <br><br>
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The former Prime Minister declared himself ready to contribute freely
toward the interests of the Haitian people, who persevere, he said, in
their quest for progress and peace, by continuing to devote themselves at
great risk and sacrifice to the slow and painstaking process of
re-founding Haiti on the basis of justice. <br><br>
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He denounced the de facto government which, in collusion with economic or
political actors whose democratic credentials are at the very least
dubious, has seized control of the judicial system, which has been in
decay for a long time with the objective of bringing about the
disappearance of Fanmi Lavalas from the political landscape
and guaranteeing the privileged interests for networks of wheeler dealers
and political types to the detriment of the life and durable progress of
the Haitian nation. <br><br>
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AHP August 24, 2004 12:15 PM </b></h5><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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