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<b>Urgent Action Alert From The Haiti Action Committee:</b><b><br>
Stop The Attacks on President Aristide and the Lavalas Movement</b>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">It is nearly two years
since the joyous return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his
wife and colleague Mildred Trouillot, and their two daughters, to their
homeland of Haiti. Tens of thousands of people followed President
Aristide’s car as it drove through the streets to his home, and then
climbed over the walls to continue an emotional and heart-felt greeting
for Haiti’s first democratically elected president. In his speech at
the airport, President Aristide focused on education and the importance
of inclusion for all Haitians in the process of restoring democracy. </font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Since his return,
President Aristide has done exactly what he promised to do - reopen the
University of the Aristide Foundation's Medical School. </font><span
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style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small;">On September 26,
2011 the Medical School once again opened its doors – this time to a
new group of 126 future Haitian doctors. Seven years after the school’s
forced closure by the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2004, and four months
after the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti,
medical education resumed at UNIFA. Just this fall, UNIFA began
accepting candidates for a new nursing school. And this is just the
beginning of a determined initiative to improve health care for all
Haitians, particularly with the ravages of the cholera epidemic
sweeping the country.</span></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Yet President Aristide
is again under attack. He has been summoned to appear in court this
Wednesday, January 9<sup>th</sup>, as part of an investigation into
Lafanmi Selavi, a home for street children that Aristide organized in
1986. Some former residents of the home now claim that Aristide owes
them money, among other unfounded and fabricated charges. The
prosecutor in this current investigation was a key member of the GNB,
the right-wing network that helped direct the 2004 coup against
Aristide’s democratically elected government.</font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">This court summons is
the latest twist in the continuing campaign to undermine both President
Aristide and his political party, Fanmi Lavalas. Twenty-one pro-Lavalas
activists and musicians have been jailed without charges since December
16th, after taking part in a demonstration commemorating the 22nd
anniversary of Pres. Aristide's election in 1990. This was followed by
a court summons to seven Lavalas grassroots leaders and activists for
speaking out against the arrest of the 21. And now the court summons
President Aristide. </font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">This is no surprise.
The Haitian government of Michel Martelly came to power after a staged
“election” in which Fanmi Lavalas, the most popular political party in
Haiti, was banned from participation. Martelly has embraced
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, the brutal former dictator, who lives
freely in Haiti and has just been granted a diplomatic passport. Human
rights organizations estimate that Duvalier and his father, Francois
“Papa Doc”, ordered the deaths of 20,000 to 30,000 Haitian citizens
during their 29-year rule. While Duvalier has been “cleared” by the
Haitian government of human rights charges, Aristide and the Lavalas
movement remain targeted.</font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Enough is enough. We
call on the Haitian government to withdraw the summons against
President Aristide and to free the 21 activists now jailed in Haiti.
We also call on the United Nations occupying forces in Haiti and the
U.S. State Department to cease their attacks against President Aristide
and the Lavalas movement.</font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><b>Demand an end to the
attacks against President Aristide and the Lavalas movement!</b></font></p>
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face="georgia, serif">Contact:</font></b></span></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Ministry of Justice and
Public Security </font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><b>Ministre de la
Justice et de la Securité Publique</b></font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><b>Jean Renel Sanon </b></font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">18 avenue Charles Summer</font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Port-au-Prince, Haïti </font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Email: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:secretariat.mjsp@yahoo.com">secretariat.mjsp@yahoo.com</a></font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Salutation:
Monsieur le Ministre/Dear Minister </span></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><b>Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.un.org%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">United
Nations</span></a><br>
New York, NY 10017 USA<br>
212-963-5012 fax: 212-963-7055<br>
Email: <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ecu@un.org">ecu@un.org </a></span></font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">Sent by Haiti Action
Committee</font></p>
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class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net">www.haitisolidarity.net</a>
and on FACEBOOK</font></p>
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