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Rights Team Finds US-Backed Haitian Government Culpable in
Lasalin Massacre </b></u>Download Report <a
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Haiti Action
Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild [NLG] is
releasing a new report <a href="http://bit.ly/2JyAEr6"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><i>The Lasalin
Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti</i> </a>about
the November 2018 massacre in the neighborhood of Lasalin,
Port-au-Prince. The report provides evidence of other
subsequent massacres and human rights violations facilitated
and supported by the government of Jovenel Moise and his
ruling PHTK party. </span></div>
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The report is co-authored by Judith Mirkinson, President of
the San Francisco chapter of the NLG, and Seth Donnelly, a
member of Haiti Action Committee. Other members of the team
include Margaret Prescod, an investigative journalist based in
Los Angeles and producer of the Sojourner Truth radio program
nationally syndicated on Pacifica, as well as Ramiro Funez,
assistant producer of the Sojourner Truth program. <br>
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On April 1, 2019 our team went to Lasalin and interviewed
survivors and eye-witnesses of the November massacre. The
report demonstrates that the Lasalin massacre - rather than
simply an example of “gang violence” as portrayed by the
Haitian government and some US media sources - was in fact an
attack facilitated by government officials and directly
conducted by Haitian National Police [HNP] officers working
closely with paramilitary elements logistically supported by
the PHTK. Lasalin was targeted because it is a base of
protests and opposition against the Moise government.
Perpetrators of the massacre destroyed homes, burned people
alive, hacked people to death, fed body parts to pigs and
dogs, and raped women. People of all ages, including a 10
month old child, were systematically butchered<br>
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The report examines how the US government has continued to
diplomatically and economically support the Moise government,
despite clear evidence of its human rights violations. US
support for the Moise government includes millions of US tax
dollars to fund and train the HNP, despite its well-documented
participation in brutality, killings of unarmed protesters,
arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, and
massacres such as the Lasalin massacre. The police and Moise
government have also been politically, economically, and
logistically supported by the United Nations occupation forces
in Haiti, MINUJUSTH. The report concludes: <b>“<font size="4">As
the toll mounts from the atrocities committed in Lasalin,
it is time for both the United States and the United
Nations to be held to task for their continued support of
the repressive and illegitimate regime now in power in
Haiti. The people of Haiti deserve the right to live
without the daily threat of state-directed violence.”</font></b></span><br
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