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SOCCER GAME MASSACRE | Ezili Danto Witness Project, August 25,
2005<br><br>
Below is an excerpt from an Ezili Danto Witness Project report, direct
from our HLLN Investigator in Haiti about the Aug. 20 and Aug. 21st
slaughter of Haitian youths attending a soccer game. This interview was
recorded August 25, 2005 and translated from Kreyol into English by
Frantz Jerome for the Ezili Danto Witness Project.<br>
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“Daddy, its goats or pigs that I have seen cut up before. How come they
are cutting up people now? (Exclamation of a traumatized young Haitian
boy watching the Grand Ravine Massacre on Sunday, August 21,
2005)<br><br>
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Ezili Danto: ...What happened in Grand Ravine, on Saturday and Sunday,
Aug. 20 and 21. I understand that it was in the realm of a soccer
game?<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: It is the Summer Camp for Peace program,
organized by USAID, OIM and the Haitian Secretary of State for Youth and
Sports, especially for the youth of various “hot- neighborhoods” around
the city. <br><br>
Ezili Danto: So, the activity name is “Summer Camp for Peace?”<br><br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: Summer Camp for Peace!<br><br>
Ezili Danto: O.I.M.? You said OIM… Do you know what OIM stands
for?<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: Eh… It escapes me right now. I will have to
look it up. It is the same organization set up to offer political asylum
in the context of the first coup against President Aristide in 1991. They
were located in Lalue, in the Bank of Paris building. That's the same
institution. It is an American company.<br><br>
Ezili Danto: They are the ones who organized the soccer game?<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: They are the one who sponsored it. Many
different location like Martissant, Lasaline, everywhere there is a
Summer Camp for Peace, they are sponsors. OIM, USAID, the Haitian
Secretary of State for Youth and Sports. If one goes to any of the
neighborhoods, one will notice the big banners on display: Summer Camp
for Peace!<br><br>
Ezili Danto: OK. Was there a soccer match during both days or was the
game on Saturday? Was there a game on Saturday and then one on
Sunday?<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: No, there was no game on Sunday. The
"attaches" [machete wielding paramilitary] came back to the
area along with the police [on Sunday].<br><br>
Ezili Danto: So, they started hacking soccer game attendants on
Saturday…<br><br>
<br><br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: They started Saturday during the
game.<br><br>
Ezili Danto: Give more details on “they came back on Sunday?” Where were
the people gathered on Sunday? Were they in one location? How did they
find the people?<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: When they came back, they attacked people
inside their house and anybody they found in the neighborhood. Soon,
you’ll hear a citizen I interviewed, an elder, he said that his home was
on the verge of being burnt down and was saved thanks to the vehement
“NO!” of a couple of MINUSTHA soldiers. They had already set five houses
on fire. There were also a few people that they had already cut
up.<br><br>
This same elderly man tells you of his young son who said in shock:<br>
“Daddy, its goats or pigs that I have seen cut up before. How come they
are cutting up people now?<br><br>
I have all this on tape. He provided a detailed account and I will play
it for you soon.<br><br>
<br>
Ezili Danto: Ah yes. I would like to see this videotape! When you said
MINUSTHA intervened, you mean that MINUSTHA was present when the
assassins were attacking the people?<br><br>
<br><br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: That Sunday, MINUSTHA was present. There are
more interesting facts to be reported, for when MINUSTHA arrested some
members of the machete wielding gang, they casually took out cell phones
and called the police. The police intervened, took them away from the
MINUSTHA soldiers, then freed them and it’s not a simple matter. I have
an interview with a Solino resident who testifies to this fact.<br><br>
Ezili Danto: They arrested these guys on Sunday…<br><br>
HLLN Listener: On Sunday, when they arrested these assassins, was it in
Solino?<br><br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: No. Yes, they arrested them in Corridor
Bastia. When they [MINUSTHA] arrested them in Corridor Bastia, it was the
same scenario: the police intervened; the police liberated them and
subsequently gave them new machetes. The same thing happened in Solino.
That proves that the police are aware of the events of Grand Ravine. One
does not need an investigation! <br><br>
Mrs. Coicou [Latortue’s police spokesperson] is taking the position that
she saw 7 corpses in the morgue and that the police are still
investigating [the Solino massacre from the first two weeks of August
where this hacking with police-distributed machetes started]. Well, the
death toll is much higher than that [7 people]. On Sunday, when I went to
the emergency section of the General Hospital, I saw those with machete
gashes in the back, others with gashes in the arm, in the legs, all over.
And there were those who were succumbing to their wounds. They were
dying, on Sunday afternoon!<br><br>
Ezili Danto: OK. Corridor Bastia, is it part of Solino…<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: Corridor Bastia, it’s the extension of Rue
Tiremasse. It extends all the way to Nazon. It’s one of the two longest
streets in Port-au-Prince. Corridor Bastia is one, the other one is Rue
Monseigneur Guilloux.<br><br>
Ezili Danto: OK. So there are two instances where MINUSTHA soldiers
arrested the men armed with machetes and in both cases, according to the
information you got, the Haitian police released them and gave them new
machetes!<br><br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: Yes, the police took them away from MINUSTHA,
released them and gave them new machetes!<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: All together between Saturday and Sunday,
August 20 and 21, how many do you think died? I have…<br><br>
<br>
HLLN Haitian Investigator: According to an organizer in the area, he was
one of the conference’s organizers, he said that they can account for 30
corpses, for they found, over these two days, 30 mutilated bodies. Some
in the media are not relating this information <br><br>
(End of excerpt. More to come)<br><br>
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Radio Commentary on the Soccer Match Massacre<br>
and UN complicity in the killings<br><br>
Ezili Danto Witness Project<br>
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http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/testimonies/soccer.html<br>
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HLLN Note: Below is a commentary excerpted from a Haitian Radio
Broadcast in New York on August 23, 2005 by an HLLN network collaborator.
This sort of reporting on the USAID|OIM "Camp for Peace" Soccer
Match massacre this weekend in Haiti may only be heard on (un-embedded)
Haitian radio as none of the mainstream press will likely report on the
Bush bloodbath brought to Haiti or even when they do, tell the truth
about the UN-led police slaughters in Haiti. <br><br>
AUGUST 23, 2005 COMMENTARY FROM A HAITIAN JOURNALIST REPORTING FROM
HAITI, as excerpted and translated by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network for the Ezili Danto Witness Project<br><br>
Employing criminal means, supposedly to eradicate criminal elements from
the population:<br><br>
Haitian radio news correspondent (talking directly from Haiti):<br><br>
News of massacre in Grand Ravine over the weekend (August 20-2, 2005)
have been confirmed. Saturday, the Machete Army was at it again. The
rumors were strong starting from Wednesday and indeed this weekend they
chopped up over 20 people. The practice of hacking people with machetes
is continuing. It started in Solino, proceeded to Bel Air and now it is
Grand Ravine that was visited by an army named “lame ti manchete” (little
machete army), accompanied, according to neighborhood resident witnesses,
by the Haitian Police and MINUSTHA. They hacked 20 people to
death.<br><br>
It occurred Saturday and Sunday during a soccer game. With UN-MINUSTHA
troops securing the area, these armed men erupted, by arms we mean
machetes, they cut a few heads and quartered many. Twenty died and many
more were wounded.<br><br>
Lionel Mondestin who is on the executive board of a political party named
MUR (Movement for Republican Unity) said that it was unacceptable that
the national police and MINUSTHA accompany these machete-wheeling men on
such a barbaric mission, inside a community! He continued to say that he
understands that the police want to apprehend bandits; nonetheless
nothing justifies the national police and MINUSTHA staging a systematic
massacre, by attaches armed with machetes. This sort of thing had never
been seen before in the history of Haiti! According to the MUR official,
none of the previously repressive regimes had ever reached such barbaric
and criminal heights. Ironic, since they claim their actions to be
justified by the fact that they are looking for bandits.<br><br>
What is interesting though is the matter-of-fact attitude of the Haitian
elite and authorities, characterized by Mrs. Coicou’s claim that the
national police did not have all the facts and that she would not comment
until she got a report. When Mrs. Coicou (police spokesperson)was asked
more specifically about the Haitian police distributing machetes to
people, suggesting that they seek vengeance, she ignored knowing this
fact in the case of Solino, but agreed that she had heard reports from
neighboring residents witnesses that such was the case. Nonetheless, she
is yet to confirm the distribution of machetes by the national
police.<br><br>
Still, the machete hacking crimes continue with the complicit silence of
notably all the political leaders that were actively denouncing, creating
and fomenting violence during the anti-Aristide campaign. Today, they are
harboring the “fool’s silence”, since the victims seem to be Lavalas
supporters. It is to be noted, nonetheless, that in Solino, MINUSTHA
interfered when the machete-wheeling brigades took to the streets,
seeking more Lavalas blood, subsequence to the news that a former Lavalas
minister had come back to Pot-au-Prince. The MINUSTHA soldiers got the
men to lay down their machetes. However, informed sources attribute the
MINUSTHA action to reports that EURO News had played images of people
being hacked to death in the presence of both the National police and
MINUSTHA soldiers. Mindful of their image, the MINUSTHA officers ordered
an end to operations.<br><br>
Unfortunately, the reality of the machete armies is that the National
Police is installing them in popular neighborhoods like Solino and Grand
Ravine. The armies are composed of people who were ostracized in the past
for petty crimes, forced to leave the area or jailed. They hold grudges
and are coming back for revenge. Many are not from these areas, and the
MINUSTHA-led Haitian Police gives them machetes and uses them to kill
Lavalas supporters, a subhuman practice that one is at a lost to qualify,
similar to the one where armed men slaughter people.<br><br>
We should also point out that many observers are afraid that this
practice will lead to a civil war. The Rwanda scenario is being echoed
more and more, referring to the machete dominated civil war where over a
million died. These same observers are saying that whoever is
distributing the machetes is fomenting civil war!<br><br>
It should also be pointed out that the “Haitian Authorities” (the defacto
gang”) are yet to take a stand on this new MINUSTHA-led police practice.
The last statement to memory can be attributed to Mrs. Coicou encouraging
neighborhood vigilante gangs to get together with the police to go
“bandit hunting”! She said that she was aware of the courageous side of
Haitians and that she knew that the people would not step back and she
appealed to their sense of responsibility, asking the neighborhood who
were yet to follow suit to hurry-up! That is exactly what just happened
in Grand Ravine where a machete-wheeling gang received logistical and
material support from the police and MINUSTHA and hacked to death 20
neighborhood residents, in the realm of this new wave of violent crimes
being perpetrated against the people of Haiti.<br><br>
One should also point out that this new wave seems to have replaced the
kidnapping phenomenon that had so abruptly erupted on the Haitian scene.
As a matter of fact, the sustained salvos of gunfire heard in Haiti day
and night seem to have mysteriously disappeared, since the apparition of
this new crime wave that Haitians call “Lame Ti Manchèt” (Little machete
Army). One can only point to one killing that does not seem to be
connected to the MINUSTHA/Police sponsored machete gangs. It is a case in
Drouillard, where a Canadian and a Haitian seem to have been shot in a
kidnapping attempt. Nonetheless, there is a marked change in the
kidnapping situation, reflected in some resuming habits that made them
prime kidnapping candidates.<br><br>
Thus, the new wave of criminal acts definitely seems to be machete
massacres implemented by the MINUSTHA/Police Nationale sponsored gangs.
Though, as mentioned previously MINUSTHA reluctantly did stop the Solino
gang on Sunday, subsequent to the news of images played on Euro News
showing people being hacked and quartered under the supervision of the
MINUSTHA-led Nationale Police and MINUSTHA troops. <br><br>
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Urgent: Help Prevent Further Massacres in Haiti!<br><br>
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Dear U.N. officials and Canadian Members of Parliament,<br><br>
News broke two days ago that a key organizer of the kidnapping wave that
caused so many deaths and so much suffering to Haitians in the past year
have been finally caught.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=1169" eudora="autourl">
http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=1169<br><br>
</a>The arrest of Stanley Handal, a multi-millionaire suspected to be a
ring leader of the kidnapping enterprise, seems to corroborate the many
reports which suggested all along that the materminds of the kidnapping
phenomenon are rich and powerful individuals from Haiti’s ruling elite
who have powerful connections in the banking industry and within a
faction of the post-coup government, and who, as identified by the
Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, are the primary owners of firearm stocks
in the country.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8165" eudora="autourl">
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8165<br>
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</a>Nonetheless Lavalas political activists or suspected sympathisers of
the deposed constitutional president continue to be scapegoated and
marked for elimination on the pretext that the regime and its foreign
accomplices are « fighting bandits ».<br><br>
Most disturbing of all, in the last few weeks, news broke that the Police
had distributed machetes and supervised numerous public lynchings in the
poor neighborhoods.<br><br>
<a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=Haiti/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=1/SIG=1208pg8v3/EXP=1125077280/*-http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050825/3/3uh9l.html" eudora="autourl">
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<br><br>
We are receiving frequent on the ground reports of major UN/MINUSTAH
operations in the poor neighborhoods like Cite Soleil. The last such
operation, which was well-documented, resulted in the deaths of several
dozen civilians. Independent journalist and fimmaker Kevin Pina wrote an
emergency appeal about the coming massacre on August 18th, 2005, where he
writes:<br><br>
"If the UN goes ahead with its plan for a second major military
incursion against Cite Soleil, it is guaranteed the number of casualties
will far exceed July 6th and further tarnish and expose the real role of
the UN in guaranteeing the coup of Feb. 28, 2004."<br><br>
<a href="http://haitiaction.net/News/KP/8_18_5/8_18_5.html" eudora="autourl">
http://haitiaction.net/News/KP/8_18_5/8_18_5.html<br><br>
</a>As early as June of this year, the Police spokeperson who refused to
divulgate the identity of a detainee suspected of involvement in
kidnappings, shamelessly intervening to protect his « good family name »,
was lamenting to reporters how "there are people of good family and
high social level that unfortunately are involved in
kidnappings,"<br><br>
So, why are the poor still the target of such senseless
repression?<br><br>
We ask that you intervene publicly - in your official capacity - by any
means possible - to stop the repressive operations before it's too late;
stop the large scale military attacks on the poor. Please intervene as
soon as possible to stop the loss of innocent life; it is still possible
to do so.<br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
Jean Saint-Vil,<br><br>
Gatineau, Québec, Canada<br><br>
Canada Haiti Action Network<br><br>
<a href="http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/" eudora="autourl">
www.canadahaitiaction.ca<br><br>
</a>*******************************<br><br>
(English Translation of an AUMOHD report)<br>
5000 Soccer Fans Witness Machete/Hatchet Lynching by Haitian Police and
Civilian Murderers<br><br>
by Tom Luce with AUMOHD investigators<br>
Aug. 25 Port-Au-Prince<br><br>
(*captions to attached photos printed below article)<br><br>
Dredging up fearsome memories of days thought to have gone by forever,
eyewitnesses here in Port-Au-Prince have portrayed an unbelievable
lynching-by-machete/hatchet rampage by red-shirted killers wearing head
bands, backed up by the Hatian National Police, of up to 50 victims
on Aug. 21 at a soccer field in Gran Ravin-Martissant. This
summary, extra-legal execution follows similar type massacres in Bel Air
and Solino earlier this summer. This time the killings were done in
plain daylight in front of and involving 5000 soccer fans, an incredibly
bold assault by Haitian police and their civilian accomplices in the
presence of troops from MINUSTAH. As has been the case this entire
past year, the "targets" in Sunday's massacre, were all
identified as "bandits", "Lavalas" scum
(Ratpacaca).<br><br>
Eyewitnesses described to a group of human rights agents today this super
t.v. drama styled event. As fans were being entertained during one
of the breaks in the soccer game--highly attended because national league
players had joined the local teams--a group of police and men wearing red
tee shirts and head bands entered the playing field and took over the
microphone from the announcer. The people in the crowd at first
thought that this was a friendly show of security by the police.
But that idea was immediately dashed when the red shirt announcer stopped
the music being played by the DJ and then demanded everyone to lay on the
ground. A shot was fired into the air and people began a panicked
response. Some tried to run away, some tried scaling the walls to
escape and several of these were shot. Others tried running into
the adjoining rooms of the stadium and later were found hacked to
death. The red shirts, backed up by the police began demanding
specific individuals lying on the ground if they were affiliated with
Aristide, asking for confirmation from others whether these people were
"bandits". Then without mercy these red shirts either
hacked their victims to death or hacked them and then had their victims
shot by the police.<br><br>
According to eyewitnesses and the family members of the victims
interviewed today, the victims of the executioners were innocent people
and were attacked only because they were allegedly Lavalas
supporters.<br><br>
The red shirts were equipped with machetes and
hatchets that were distributed, according to witnesses, by the police at
the Martissant police station. These same civilians who appeared in red
shirts and head bands at the soccer game, armed with machetes were
recognized by people in the area as the same people who at least a month
previously were thrown out of the area as trouble makers among whom were
some prison escapees and thieves. Some of these executioners were named
by witnesses: Georges Jean Yves, Gérard, aka, Gwo l'Ombril (Big Belly
Button), Élifet aka Tête Calé (Shaved Head), Ti Clody, Rudy, Joël, Eddy,
Apoupann aka Colonel, Ronald Toussaint, Kiki , Rocky Rambo,
and Cliska. The chief of police of Martissant was also implicated
in the operation by the witnesses and according to the witnesses
threatened to come after them and "wipe them out the next
day."<br><br>
On Sunday, Aug. 21 the same red shirts, accompanied by the police,
invaded residential areas and burned more than four houses alleged to be
inhabited by Lavalas supporters. They also severely damaged an
electricity transformer in the area. They also damaged several
other houses.<br><br>
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Captions (photos):<br><br>
#1. Family members of victims of the Gran Ravin lynching gave interviews
to human rights investigators today, Aug. 25<br>
#2. Other Family members of lynching victims tell their story.<br>
#3. A school for the poor built by Pres. Aristide stands idle and
empty<br>
#4. A view of the Port-Au-Prince harbor from Gran Ravin<br>
Note: #5 has been omitteed<br>
#6. Mother of a lynching victim<br>
#7. A view of the hillside community of Gran Ravin<br>
#8. School I.D. of a young 23 year old man, one of the victims of the
lynching.<br><br>
Tom Luce, President<br>
HURAH, Inc.<br>
Human Rights Accompaniment In Haiti<br>
900 Advocates In The Northeast of the U.S.<br>
30 Park St.<br>
Barre, Vt. 05641<br>
In Haiti: Cell phone 011-509-428-8676<br>
Tel. 802-476-7056, 522-3525<br>
<a href="http://www.hurah.webhop.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hurah.webhop.org<br>
</a>*<br><br>
(French Version)- Lynchage à machete et hâche à Gran Ravin Avec
PNH<br><br>
<br>
5000 Fanas De Foot Témoignent Un Lynchage Par Machette et Hachette Aux
Mains Des Civils Aidés par la Police Nationale d'Haïti En Présence de la
MINUSTAH<br><br>
par Tom Luce<br>
avec investigateurs d'AUMOHD<br>
août 25 Port-Au-Prince<br><br>
Contacts: Tom Luce, 428-8676<br>
Evel Fanfan, Pres. AUMOHD-DwaMoun 424-3334<br>
181 Autoroute de Delmas 23, PAP<br><br>
(* légende des photos attachées se trouve en bas de l'article<br>
** Version anglaise après la version française)<br><br>
<br>
Évoquant des mémoires effrayantes des jours censés pour ne jamais être
répétés, des témoins oculaires ici à Port-Au-Prince ont dépeint un
saccage incroyable de lynchage-par-machètte-et-hache aux mains des tueurs
civils en maillot rouge avec des mouchoirs à la tête, soutenus par la
police nationale d' Haïti en présence de la MINUSTAH. environ 50 victimes
ont été trouvés samedi 21 août dans un terrain de foot à Gran
Ravin-Martissant.<br><br>
Cette exécution sommaire et illégale suit des similaires massacres au Bel
Air et à Solino plus tôt cet été. Cette fois les massacres ont été commis
en plein jour devant une foule de 5000 fanas de foot, qui eux aussi
ont été subis à des incroyables menaces et ordres de ce groupe de tueurs
en maillot rouge. C'était un assaut incroyablement audacieux par la
PNH et leurs complices civils en présence des troupes de la MINUSTAH.
Comme a été le cas tout le long de l'année 2004-5, les cibles de ce
lynchage/massacre le samedi 20 aout 2005, ils étaient tous identifiés par
la police et les maillots rouges comme des "bandits", dégats de
"Lavalas" (Rat pa kaka).<br><br>
Les témoins oculaires ont décrit à un groupe d'agents de droits de
l'homme aujourd'hui ce drame qui resemble à un feuillton détectif à la
télé. Pendant que des fanas étaient en train d'être animés par un
"DJ" lors d'une des pauses dans le match de foot -- suivis par
un grand nombre parce que des joueurs de niveau de ligue nationale
avaient joint les équipes locales -- un groupe d'hommes habillés en
maillot rouge avec des mouchoirs à la tête sont entrés dans le terrain de
foot et l'un d'entre eux a pris le microphone de l'annonceur. Les
personnes dans la foule de prime abord pensaient que c'était une
manifestation amicale de sécurité par la police. Mais cette idée était
immédiatement renversé quand l'homme en maillot rouge a arrêté la musique
jouée par le DJ et puis a exigé chacun de se coucher par terre. Un coup
de feu a été tire en l'air et les gens ont commencé avec une réponse
paniquée. Certains ont essayé de courir pour s'échapper, d'autres
ont essayé de grimper les murs pour prendre la fuite. Plusieurs de
ces derniers étaient fusillés par la police. D'autres ont couru dans les
pièces voisines du stade et plus tard ils ont été trouvés hâchés à
mort. Les maillots rouges, soutenus par la police ont commencé à
exiger des individus spécifiques déja couchés par terre s'ils étaient
partisans d'Aristide, demandant la confirmation d'autres si ces personnes
étaient des "bandits". Alors sans pitié ces maillots
rouges ont hâché leurs victimes à mort ou les ont hâchés et puis ont fait
la police tirer à mort leurs victimes. Selon des témoins oculaires
et les membres de famille des victimes interviewées aujourd'hui, les
victimes des bourreaux étaient des personnes innocentes et ont été
attaquées seulement parce qu'elles étaient présumés des défenseurs de
Lavalas.<br><br>
Les maillots rouges ont été équipées des machettes et des haches avec le
sigle PNH qui ont été distribuées avant le match, selon les
témoins, par la police au commissariat de police de Martissant. Ces mêmes
civils qui ont apparus dans les maillots rouges et mouchoirs à la tête au
match de foot, armés avec des machettes et des hâches ont été identifiés
par des personnes dans le secteur en tant que les mêmes gens qui ont été,
il y a au moins un mois, expulsés du secteur comme des malfaiteurs et
voleurs parmi lesquels étaient quelques évadés de prison et voleurs.
Certains de ces bourreaux ont été nommés par des témoins comme les
suivants: Georges Jean Yves; Gérard, alyas "Gwo LOmbrik",
Elifet,alyas "Tête Calé", Ti Clody, Rudy, Joël; Eddy; Apoupann
alyas "Colonel", Ronald Toussaint, Kiki, Rambo Rocky, et
Cliska. Le chef de la police de Martissant a été également impliqué dans
l'opération par les témoins et selon les témoins ce dernier les a menacé
en disant qu'il viendrait après eux et il les "éliminera" le
jour suivant."<br><br>
Le 21 aoôt, dimanche les mêmes hommes en maillot
rouge, accompagnés par la police ont envahi des voisinages de Gran Ravin
et ont brulés plus de quatre maisons censées d'être des partisans
Lavalas. Ils ont haché à mort d'autres victimes comme ils l'ont
fait le samedi.<br><br>
Légende des photos :<br><br>
# 1. membres de famille des victimes du lynchage à Gran Ravin donne une
intervue aux investigateurs des droits humains aujourd'hui,
25 août<br><br>
# 2. Autre membres de famille des victimes de lynchage racontent leurs
histoires.<br><br>
# 3. Une école pour les pauvres construite par Pres. Aristide
actuellement vide et pas utilisée<br><br>
# 4. Une vue de Port-Au-Prince de Gran Ravin<br><br>
(note : _ #5 a été omis)<br><br>
# 6. Mère d'un victime de lynchage<br><br>
# 7. Une vue de la communauté Gran Ravin batie sur une colline<br><br>
# 8. Une carte d'identité d' un jeune homme agé de 23 ans, victime de
lynchage<br><br>
Arrestation d’un important homme d’affaires en relation avec<br>
les cas de kidnapping enregistrés à Port-au-Prince <br><br>
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Arrestation d’un important homme d’affaires en relation avec<br>
les cas de kidnapping enregistrés à Port-au-Prince <br>
<br>
<br>
La police a procédé mardi à Port-au-Prince à l’arrestation d’un<br>
important homme d’affaires haïtien d’origine arabe, M. Stanley
Handal,<br>
en relation avec la série d’actes de kidnapping enregistrés à<br>
Port-au-Prince ces derniers mois. <br>
<br>
M. Handal, qui est aussi un fournisseur de la police, a été
appréhendé<br>
dans le cadre de l’enquête ouverte autour de la disparition d’un<br>
employé de la UNIBANK, Nathael Aléus Génélus (31 ans) depuis le 2
août<br>
dernier après une interpellation dont il a été l’objet au sous<br>
commissariat de police de Delmas 62. L’inspecteur de police
responsable<br>
de ce sous-commissariat, James Bourdeau, est encore activement<br>
recherché pour implication présumée dans l’enlèvement de M. Génélus.
<br>
<br>
Selon des sources policières, l’enquête autour de la disparition de<br>
l’employé de la UNIBANK aurait permis à la police de découvrir<br>
l’existence d’un vaste et puissant réseau de malfaiteurs impliqués
dans<br>
le blanchiment d’argent de la drogue, les actes de kidnapping et<br>
d’autres activités louches. <br>
<br>
L’homme d’affaires Stanley Handal et l’employé de banque Génélus,<br>
feraient partie du réseau. Il aurait fallu le déploiement
d’importantes<br>
forces de police pour l’appréhender, indiquent les sources
contactées<br>
par Kiskeya. La police civile de l’ONU (CIVPOL) a également participé
à<br>
l’opération. <br>
<br>
Aucune précision n’a pu être obtenue sur le sort de l’employé de<br>
banque, de même que sur celui de l’inspecteur de police James
Bourdeau.<br><br>
<br>
Après une période d’accalmie, une certaine recrudescence des actes
de<br>
kidnapping est constatée à Port-au-Prince avec une tendance à<br>
l’extension du phénomène à d’autres quartiers jusqu’ici épargnés. <br>
<br>
Un canadien, un haïtien résidant aux Etats-Unis et un haut cadre de
la<br>
Direction Générale des Impôts ont été tués en moins d’une semaine à<br>
Port-au-Prince. <br><br>
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