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style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0);">EMERGENCY
DEMONSTRATION</font></span></b></div>
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color="#ff0000">Tuesday, Sept 30th - 5PM</font></span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:18pt;"><font
color="#ff0000">San Francisco, Market & Montgomery</font></span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b
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style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:18pt;">HANDS
OFF PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT!</span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:18pt;">HUNDREDS
OF SUPPORTERS RALLY OUTSIDE PRESIDENT ARISTIDE’S HOME
AFTER MASKED AND HOODED POLICE SURROUND IT!</span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">ON SATURDAY
MORNING, MASKED HAITIAN POLICE SURROUNDED FORMER PRESIDENT
JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE’S HOUSE, AS HAITIAN RADIO STATIONS
BROADCAST NEWS THAT HE WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE RALLIED IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, VOWING
TO STAY THERE TO PREVENT HIS ARREST. </span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">THIS IS THE
HAITIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT’S
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS <span><span>ON TUESDAY</span></span>
TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1991 COUP
AGAINST PRESIDENT ARISTIDE. IT IS PART OF A PATTERN OF
INTIMIDATION THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE DAYS OF THE DUVALIER
DICTATORSHIP.</span></b></div>
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style="text-align:center;margin-top:10pt;" align="center"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">ON SEPTEMBER 12</span></b><b><sup><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:4pt;">TH</span></sup></b><b
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style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">, AT <span><span>1
A.M.</span></span>, THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT REMOVED THE
SECURITY DETAIL THAT HAS BEEN GUARDING FORMER PRESIDENT
ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY SINCE HIS RETURN TO HAITI IN 2011.
THIS CAME A DAY AFTER A JUDGE ORDERED PRESIDENT ARISTIDE,
HAITI’S FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT, TO BE
PLACED UNDER “HOUSE ARREST.” UNDER CURRENT HAITIAN LAW,
“HOUSE ARREST” DOES NOT EXIST, BUT IT WAS USED FREQUENTLY
AS A FORM OF REPRESSION BY THE DUVALIER REGIME. </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv7122464664MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10pt;"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">WE VIEW THIS WITH
THE GRAVEST CONCERN AND CONSIDER THESE DEVELOPMENTS A
DIRECT THREAT TO PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY. </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv7122464664MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10pt;"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.5pt;">PLEASE
CALL THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S HAITI DESK. </span></b></div>
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style="margin-top:10pt;"><b><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">THE UNITED STATES
HAS BEEN A KEY SUPPORTER OF THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT OF
MICHEL MARTELLY. </span></b><b><span style="color:black;"> </span></b><b
id="yiv7122464664yui_3_16_0_1_1411961617772_14120"><span
style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;">LET THEM KNOW --
GIVEN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE MARTELLY GOVERNMENT – THAT WE
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF
PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY, AND THAT WE DEMAND AN
END TO THIS HARASSMENT AND REPRESSION AGAINST PRESIDENT
ARISTIDE AND THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT. </span></b></div>
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style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.5pt;">Please
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style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.5pt;">Haiti
Special Coordinator Thomas ADAMS </span></b></div>
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style="color:black;font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.5pt;">UNITED
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