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Urgent Action Alert - Save Ti Joe and Romualt Dufresne<br>
May 26, 2005<br><br>
Demand a Stop to the torture of Lavalas community organizers
arrested<br>
by UN soldiers and turned over to the Haitian Gestapo for torture,<br>
especially demand a stop to the torture and beating of Ti Joe and<br>
Romualt Dufresne, two well-known Bel Air community organizers being<br>
held by the Bush-backed death regime in Haiti<br><br>
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The Bush Administration has brought a reign of terror to Haiti
unseen<br>
even under Bush, Sr.'s first Administration and its first Coup
D’etat<br>
against President Aristide. As you read HIP's report below about the<br>
abuses of Haiti's "police" supported by the Bush Administration
and the<br>
other Coup D'etat governments of France and Canada through use of UN<br>
soldiers, please remember that the tortures for U.S. political gains
in<br>
Haiti are of real people, already suffering too much. <br><br>
Keep in mind that before the May 18, 2005 demonstrations, UN troops,<br>
swept the populous neighborhoods and "arrested" a whole group
of<br>
innocent men and some community organizers out of Bel Air and Site<br>
Solèy. These disappeared people do not have an international
profile.<br>
But nonetheless, they are human beings that the UN has turned over to
a<br>
US-equipped Haitian dressed-up "policeforce" that assassinates
and<br>
summarily executes political opponents for the imported Bush regime
in<br>
Haiti. There are two men in particular, whose treatment by MINUSTHA,<br>
represent countless others arrested in UN sweeps into the poor<br>
neighborhoods. HLLN worries about these two men, well known
community<br>
organizers in Bel Air: Ti Joe and Romualt Dufresne. Both have been<br>
beaten and grossly tortured by the Haitian dressed-up assassins
passing<br>
off as "police" for the US/Euro folks and mindsets helping
and<br>
supporting the repression of Haiti. Haitians do not see these
dressed<br>
up mercenaries as law and order dispensers whatsoever, despite their<br>
labels. Ti Joe and have been beaten mercilessly and could be dead
right<br>
now.
<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/051805/freehaiti051805.shtml" eudora="autourl">
http://www.sfbayview.com/051805/freehaiti051805.shtml</a> Our latest<br>
information is that Ti Joe was pronounced dead by the Hospital
doctor<br>
because a pulse could not be found after the constant beatings. He
is<br>
not dead as of yet though and we write to beg that MINUSTHA finds
its<br>
humanity and help save this life and the life of the others it has<br>
placed in danger by turning them over to trained killers not peace<br>
officers.<br><br>
Before these two men die, we want the world to take note that it was<br>
MINUSTHA, the UN soldiers, who turned Ti Joe and Romualt Dufresne
over<br>
to the Haitian "police" for said treatment and it is MINUSTHA
that will<br>
be responsible for their deaths and sufferings. This is not JUSTICE,<br>
nor peacekeeping, nor even civilized. <br><br>
The world seems to be paralyzed, doing nothing as the greatest
powers<br>
on earth, led by U.S. rep. Ambassador Foley in Haiti, kill off<br>
political opponents whose only crime is the wish to choose and have
a<br>
vested interest in who rules them in their own country. The aim is
to<br>
consolidate this coup D’etat with an "election" and then
release the<br>
political prisoners who are not yet dead after the fraudulent<br>
elections. Remember, in Haiti, there is NO WAY if the<br>
one-person-one-vote applies that the Coup D’etat contingent or any<br>
US/Canada/France backed candidate can EVER win the popular vote.
But<br>
pride, greed, and arrogance rules and these powers refuse to<br>
acknowledge their mistakes in Haiti and intend to keep their<br>
rule-by-force control no matter how many Haitians they must
kill.<br><br>
<br>
History will judge the Foley/Bush Coup D'etat butchers and U.S./Euro<br>
embassy employees in Haiti. The blood of Haitians has been dripping
off<br>
their hands with no compunction whatsoever. Their white teeth are
red<br>
in our blood, even if they turn a deaf, dumb and blind facade while<br>
sipping tropical drinks at the Montana, Ollofson or El Rancho. But<br>
right now it's up to the civilized world to wake up and write to the
UN<br>
authorities and demand a stop to the killing and torture of men,
such<br>
as Romualt Dufresne and Ti Joe. Our last update is that Ti Joe was
so<br>
badly beaten the doctors at the hospital had pronounced him dead.
These<br>
sufferings and tortures weigh heavily on us here at HLLN. Yet, as it
is<br>
the "beautiful" and "democratic" authorities of the
world who preside<br>
over the death reign in Haiti, few are listening to the voices in
the<br>
wilderness with only people power. But the families of Romualt
Dufresne<br>
and Ti Joe feel each blow; Bel Air, Site Solèy contracts with each<br>
disappearance and UN-presided-over summary execution. Our pain
is<br>
bottomless. Our butchers wear blue helmets and are getting paid by
the<br>
unsuspecting world-at-large whose trust in the UN as an institution
of<br>
peace and human rights is grossly misplaced. We write this as a
prayer<br>
for Ti Joe and Romualt Dufresne, so that they might survive today's<br>
torture and live, not die for Haiti. We pray that the international<br>
community will get a CONSCIENCE and that decent folks the world over<br>
will write the UN and demand a stop to the tortures, beatings and<br>
summary executions in Haiti. (UN contact information is on our
website<br>
under Press Work)<br><br>
<br>
Marguerite Laurent, Esq.<br>
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network<br>
May 26, 2005<br>
<a href="http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html<br>
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