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The Haiti Action Committee is forwarding this impassioned appeal
from<br>
Marguerite Laurent --<br><br>
Help save Yvon Neptune's life - Yvon Neptune's Letter From Jail -
2/24/05<br>
(English translation below)<br><br>
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune has been on a hunger strike since the
February<br>
19, 2005 prison release that was, as reported by Anel Belizaire, intended
as<br>
a cover to mask his assassination in the chaos. The eight months of<br>
incarceration, many attempts on his life and the deprivations of
prison<br>
shackles in Haiti, along with this hunger strike has taken its toll on
the<br>
health of Yvon Neptune. This morning doctors had to be called to his
cell.<br>
He is in critical condition and his family worries he won't live
much<br>
longer.<br><br>
Today HLLN went to Washington and made an urgent appeal to the Haiti
Task<br>
Force of the Congressional Black Caucus to do something to help save
the<br>
life of Yvon Neptune. We brought them Yvon Neptune's letter and delivered
it<br>
into the U.S. Congressional record at a briefing on the situation in
Haiti.<br><br>
Below is the Prime Minister's perhaps last words, written from prison,
after<br>
more than 8-months of being held without formal charges or
trial.<br><br>
It's difficult to stand idle as an innocent and noble man's life ebbs
slowly<br>
but surely away as a result of the Bush Administration
intentionally<br>
plunging into the backs of the Haitian majority this horrific cancer
of<br>
lawlessness, repression, violence and inhumanity. The neocon
imperialist<br>
shot Latortue's sick regime into Haiti's bloodstream by overwhelming
and<br>
unmerciless force. But they say it is for our "own good" and in
the best<br>
interests of Haitian justice and democracy!!! Such malevolence and insult
to<br>
our intelligence is without peer.<br><br>
This Coup d'etat cannot metastasize further.<br><br>
One year of pure barbarity, terror and crime is absolutely much more
than<br>
enough. Far, far too many innocent Haitians, human beings, have
died<br>
senselessly, pointlessly and apathetically.<br><br>
We urge everyone to demand that the United States take away its
dirty<br>
syringe and send it on back to Boca Raton. Or better yet, some prison,
we<br>
suggest Guantanamo Bay, for crimes against humanity. A place where even
U.S.<br>
citizen, nor anyone else for that matter, will have to absorb such
terror,<br>
ugliness. Certainly Haiti's starving and already traumatized boys and
girs<br>
bear this U.S.-imposed burden much longer. It's
beleaguered-in-tribulations<br>
adults neither.<br><br>
Help save Yvon Neptune's life. Please contact the people and
organizations<br>
Prime Minister Neptune has addressed his letter to below. Ask them to
save<br>
Neptune's life by demanding his immediate and unconditional release
from<br>
prison in Haiti. The U.S.-backed Latortue/Apaid/Gousse/Foley regime
in<br>
Haiti, have revealed themselves, in the year since the Coup d'etat, to
be<br>
competent only in violence, subterfuge, lies, shooting-dead young
unarmed<br>
Black boys, unarmed demonstrators and at arming and rewarding their
thugs,<br>
killers, convicts and mercenaries who keep them in power through the use
of<br>
naked force.<br><br>
Cite the Miami Law Center report and the recent February 28, 2005
shooting<br>
of unarmed demonstrators as an example of the anarchic conditions,<br>
lawlessness and ranpant human rights abuses.<br><br>
According to Bel Air residence we interviewed, the February 28,
2005<br>
shooting, was done by CIMO and SWAT Units, and their civilian
attaches<br>
(especially the four A.S.-DDO operatives, known to Haitian victims as:
Jean<br>
Yves “Nasson” Gerald; Narage “Eleus” Laguerre; St. Gor “Père
Reklè”<br>
Clermond; and, “Gwo Fanfan.” ). These four men were among the six
men, in<br>
the white, unmarked pickup Chevrolet truck, that stopped at the corner
of<br>
Rue Des Cèsars and Rue Des Front-Forts and began shooting
indiscriminately<br>
at the unarmed Bel Air demonstrators on February 28, 2005 in plain sight
of<br>
the international media and U.N. troops.<br><br>
According to their victims, the people of Bel Air recognized these
four<br>
Direction Departementale De L’Ouest ("DDO") attaches as part
of the shooters<br>
who fired into the crowd on February 28, killing at least 5 people
and<br>
wounding over 15 because these four civilian attaches to the Haitian
police,<br>
these alleged four murderers, are routinely sent on killing and arson
sprees<br>
into their neighborhoods with total impunity and in plain sight of
MINUSTHA<br>
troops. On February 28, 2004 at the peaceful demonstration even though
the<br>
international media was present, along with human rights advocates,
these<br>
four still were able to kill with impunity.<br><br>
Bel Aire residents say the four work for the police station in<br>
Port-au-Prince that is under the command of Leon Charles, Director
General<br>
of Haiti's police force and which main police station is under the<br>
jurisdiction of Coup D’etat government employee, Renand Etienne, the
head of<br>
DDO. These civilian attaches to the DDO wear no uniform and are
simply<br>
identified as A.S.-D.D.O. that is Attaché Special to the DDO.<br>
These are the freedom fighters of Mr. Bush and Latorture. These
terrorists<br>
are the ugly epidemic unleashed on the people of Haiti. Please, your
efforts<br>
to save the lives of the people of Bel Air, of Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune<br>
are critical. MINUSTHA has no facility to hold these murderers. When
they<br>
are caught by MINUSTHA killing the Haitian people, all U.N. troops can do
is<br>
turned them over to the very people who hired them. And, in just hours,
as<br>
the people of Bel Air, recount, these men are out and doubly committed
to<br>
the madness of killing, killing, which they are well paid to
do.<br><br>
Bush took away Haiti's fledging democracy and replaced it with this<br>
Latorture death and killing regime. The people of Haiti cannot go
to<br>
MINUSTHA for help as outlined above and cannot go to Latortue for
justice.<br>
The only thing we can do is stop this from its source - The United
States.<br>
Our government unleashed this Coup d'etat and must now stop the bloodshed
-<br>
let this begin with the saving of Yvon Neptune's life. (Some contact
info<br>
provided below. Thank you.)<br><br>
Lit la red pou Ayisyen. Ann sonje, men anpil chaj pa lou!<br><br>
Marguerite Laurent, Esq.<br>
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network<br>
March 2, 2005<br>
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