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<b><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Haiti Action Committee Denounces
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Attempted Assassination of Former President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide </font></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">Yesterday, there was an
assassination attempt against former
president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first
democratically elected
president. President Aristide had been summoned to
appear as a witness in a
court case. While returning from court, his
motorcade was attacked by armed
Haitian police. A number of people were injured in
the attack. Mass protests
against the police broke out immediately. <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font
face="verdana, sans-serif">In the wake of the
electoral coup which installed Jovenal Moise,
a right-wing protégé of former President Michel
Martelly, as Haiti’s new
president, there has been a marked increase in
repression directed against
grassroots activists. <span></span></font></span></p>
<span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font face="verdana,
sans-serif">This
attack on President Aristide signals a new stage of
terror in Haiti. It
harkens back to the days of the Duvalier
dictatorships. Human rights activists
and all supporters of democracy in Haiti need to
condemn this attempted
assassination and demand that those who committed this
act be brought to
justice.</font></span><span
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