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Translated from Kreyol broadcast by Frantz Jerome
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List
of those who stole these last two years, MINUSTHA's raining
bullets in Site Soley, Arrest Warrants issued for Lame Timanchèt
suspects
(Listen
to Kreyol Audio)
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Both
Lame Timanchèt and UN say their job in Haiti is to
kill "bandits":
The failures of the UN and Haitian Police Chief, Mario Andresol
by Marguerite Laurent,
Haitian Perspectives, July 21, 2006
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Lame
Timanchèt: The DDR Fiasco,
Ezili Danto Witness Project, July 19, 2006 (Matisan Video
Clips - Clip
1 begging forgiveness, Clip2
- March 19, 2006 interview with Sason; Clip3
- Peace between Gran Ravine activists and the police would
turn false as police-created Lame Timanchèt would
3-months later attack the Gran Ravine community, again
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Gonaive
Turmoil
Kreyol Audio
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Another
Illegal Arms Shipment
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Hundred
to thousands demonstrate on July 15, 2006 Demanding Pres.
Aristide's return to Haiti
(Photos)
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What's
Destabalizing Haiti?: The massacre and imprisonment of Haiti's
Innocents
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Ayisyen:
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Sason,
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Both
Lame Timanchèt and UN say their job in Haiti is to kill
"bandits":
The failures of the UN and Haitian Police Chief, Mario Andresol
by Marguerite Laurent,
Haitian Perspectives, July 21, 2006
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The Matisan Disarmament Fiasco. See Ezili Danto Witness
Project/Free Haiti Movement Photos
and Video Clips: Clip
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18, 2006 Ezili Danto Witness Project Reports: 1) President Preval
is reported to be in possession of a list of politicians and media
personalities who have participated in the conspiracy to destroy
the country and received huge sums of aid money in the process.
The rumors of his death may be to intimidate Preval/Alexi government
into not pursuing these criminals and corrupt officials. 2) MINUSTHA's
raining bullets in Site Soley and 3) Arrest Warrants have been
issued for Lame Timanchèt suspects for the July 7, 2006
massacre in Gran Ravine
Translation of excerpts of a
July 18, 2006 Radio Levekampe Broadcast (Masner Beauplan show)
Report direct from Haiti,
Translated for the Ezili Danto
Witness Project from Kreyol original into English by
Frantz Jerome,
Ezili Danto Witness Project, July 19, 2006
(July
18 Ezili Danto Witness Project Report - Listen to original Kreyol
audio)
*START OF REPORT:
Haiti Correspondent: Yesterday in the afternoon
around 4 o’clock, it started to rain bullets in Site Solèy.
The MINUSTHA soldiers who set their base at the Site Solèy
public market, the very market the soldiers had shot at, they
took it as a base in Site Solèy. Yesterday afternoon, they
shot nonstop, and were still at it around 8:30pm when our correspondent
was having a phone conversation with Yves Gelin, one of Site Solèy’s
leader of popular organizations, denouncing the UN soldiers’
attitude.
When asked exactly what happened? Yves Gelin said that "the
soldiers were perched on the market’s rooftop and were shooting
without rhyme or reason. When they smoke god knows what and are
under the influence, they start shooting." According to Yves
Gelin, Site Solèy inhabitants reported that 8 to 12 people
had been wounded and were hospitalized at St
Catherine hospital. The people resent the soldiers’ attitude.
Too many people have died in Site Solèy Mr. Gelin said
and they would like the President and the head of government Mr.
Alexis to sit with the international community’s representatives
in order to redefine MINUSTHA’s role.
These past couple of weeks, no one knows exactly why but in the
areas of Simon, Pele, Site Boston what is going on is similar
to what is happening at the market. The new attitude of these
soldiers should be noted. For now they are ready to shoot aiming
at anyone around them as they patrol an area. The situation is
truly complicated.
We must add that the Brazilian congress just issued a resolution
asking their government to bring the entire Brazilian contingent
home. They want all soldiers, even those attached to the UN mission
to come home because the situation is deteriorating and the insecurity
barometer is on the rise in Haiti. This decision is a reaction
to the three Brazilian soldiers who were wounded; two of them
are in grave condition and receiving medical attention in the
Dominican Republic.
In the meantime, some Haitian legislators deplore their Brazilian
counterparts precipitated action. The Haitian National Assembly
members feel that such action is taken in haste, recalling that
these soldiers had come to stabilize the country, to create a
climate of security. Now, they feel that they themselves are not
safe.
Could it be that Haiti is again facing an international conspiracy?
Nonetheless, the almighty Security Council will decide the Brazilian
soldiers’ fate in Haiti.
Lame Timanchèt
Turning our attention to another matter dominating the news, arrest
warrants were issued for Lame Timanchèt members.
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Martisan
Arms Symbolically turned in to the authorities on March
19, 2006 as part of the partisan DDR. This, before Lame
Timanchèt, who are not from Gran Ravin, Matisan,
are said to have attacked Gran Ravine folks, on July 6,
2006, many in their sleep, slaughtering over 40 civilians
in Gran Ravin, Matisan.
See Ezili Danto Witness Project video clip of Sanson, who
is from Gran Ravin, begging many of the very people who
would be slaughtered by Lame Timanchèt from Tibwa,
et al, just a mere 3 months later for "forgiveness"
for past violence and crimes. These Gran Ravine men now
say they will give MINUSTHA and the Haitian police a chance
to do the right thing, but some say they may be forced again
to pick up arms in self-defense if Lame Timanchet is not
brought to justice or continues to prey on the defenseless
and innocent women, children and old men in their Gran Ravine
community. (See
update, July 23, 2006)
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Still, one wonders whether or
not the police will arrest them.
Everyone knows the acts perpetrated by Lame Timanchèt in
the country. It should be noted that Port-au-Prince prosecutor
ordered an autopsy of all victims of their last massacre. As late
as yesterday more bodies were being uncovered. Three corpses that
were in an advanced state of decomposition were pulled out of
the rubbles in Gran Ravin, bringing the toll higher.
The police should do all it can to control the situation, because
Lame Timanchèt members do as they please. This army is
“the offspring of the national police”. Some high-ranking
officers in the National Police had created it. We promise that
soon we will provide a list including all Lame Timanchèt
members wreaking havoc in Gran Ravin, Matisan and Tibwa.
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Kidnapping
Now let’s move on to another dossier: kidnapping.
It creates many problems. Who will bring the solution? The areas
that we are about to name
are hot spots for kidnapping. A couple was kidnapped yesterday
in Delmas 31. The area of Petionville’s main cemetery. Around
5:30 yesterday afternoon, a citizen was kidnapped.
In the area of Drouillard, the center area, thugs kidnapped two
young ladies and apparently the ransom request was quite high.
The couple that came from the US, kidnapped out of a hotel in
Arcahaie, is yet to be liberated. Neither the husband nor the
wife because the kidnappers asked US$50,000.00 for their release.
We’ll remind people that this citizen along with his wife
went to get two cars from St Marc’s customs. They thought
that the driver who had
accompanied them could process the papers. But he was slow in
taking care of bank deposits and other chores and by the time
he was finished the state offices in St Marc were close. Instead
of the driver bringing
these people straight to Port-au-Prince, he suggested a hotel
in the area.
However the driver did not sleep in the same hotel. Well, minutes
later armed kidnappers visited the hotel and left with the couple.
Rumors have it that the driver is an accomplice of the captors.
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Pillages
of the Countries Resources: Rumor's about Rene Preval's health
are to intimidate President Preval into covering-up the defacto
regime's thievery of foreign aid monies.
[…] Rumors have been circulating that Rene Garcia Preval
is dead. Well, the reason behind such rumors is clear. For many
have a vested interest in intimidating the President. Any known
member of the political class who had participated in a special
commission or a few commissions, the de facto government these
past two years had created more than 20 special commissions. These
people are part of a list matching them to exorbitant sums of
money. Well, the President of the country is in possession of
this list now. Upon reviewing the list, the President became indignant
when he realized how aid money had been looted.
The President hired a special accountant to prepare an accounting
of the “special commissions” fiasco. Well, apparently
many media personalities and political people are implicated in
the destruction of the country for personal gain.
How will this list
be presented to the general public? The President having ordered
a detailed accounting of the affair, will they provide copies
of that list to be read on the airwaves?
Well, we’ll say that the de facto regime would have already
divulged this list, jam-packed of media and political personalities,
to many carefully selected Internet sites and blogs. Nonetheless,
according to our information, the report may surface in Le Moniteur,
the government’s newspaper of record. Still, the President
is in possession of this list of politicians and media personalities
who have participated in the conspiracy to destroy the country
and received huge sums of aid money in the process.
The list is alphabetized and apparently includes all actors of
the plot to destroy Haiti. Let’s listen to a citizen offering
his opinion on the list. Engineer Frank Adelson, the general secretary
of the political party MOP, thinks that Gerard Latortue along
with the politicians who destroyed the country ought to be extradited.
It does not make sense that these guys destroyed the country the
way they did. Mr. Adelson said that...
Recorded Field
Interview:
Mr. Adelson: “…Latortue should
be extradited, …extradited, in the face of the spectacle
of the pillaging of the public resources. A veritable mess during
these past two years… we heard the President of the USA
say that massive aid to the tune of 1.2 billion dollars had been
sent to Haiti… …the point is that President Preval
must have Mr. Latortue extradited and he must arrest all of those
who participated in the looting of the public money… you
know I have friends… friends who were part of commissions.
But this gang was ravaging the country and must be arrested so
that they stop the destruction.
I live in this country and this morning, I am penniless. Do you
know why? Because their gang has destroyed the country! They find
a way to infiltrate the government… a government of thieves.
Well, they take advantage of the situation to steal as well.
…many of them used their radio to wage a political struggle…
I don’t think that Haiti is a pie to be shared… The
country is not a pie… that is exactly what the white men
think of us, as famished for crumbs, lusting after riches, a gang
of scavengers. Viewing Haiti as a pie, at the drop of a hat, they
are offering us the Prime Minister's position… Especially
the USA… They had sent us Bazi. They had sent us Bazin,
and now with the second coup they sent us Latortue.
Well, Latortue had to flee. He flew the coop. However, I as one
responsible for a political party demand that he be extradited.
He must be extradited so that he can give an account of the country’s
money that disappeared. Over US$965,000,000.00, at least if he
had taken 1,000,000.00 and left the rest, since every official
seem to be making their million… I am not saying he took
the entire US$965,000,000.00. But, as part of his share…
he bought a lexus that he is using in Florida… on the account
of Haitian people… President Preval must have him along
with the others extradited so that they can come and give an explanation
to the
nation.”
Haiti Correspondent: This is MOP’s general
secretary reacting. According to the engineer, he had the opportunity
to see the alphabetized list and it is loaded with people matched
with exorbitant sums of money given to people under the guise
of special commissions. He says that he saw the name of many of
his friends from the “political class” in the list.
According to our correspondent, we need look no further for an
explanation of the rumors of the President’s death. The
gang is restless, for they don’t know President Preval’s
intentions. They don’t know what he will do with that list
that details how these political actors used all kinds of subterfuge
to “get their share.”
Included on the list is a head of a political party who at the
last minute got 12,000,000.00 [Transcriber's Note:
not sure whether its gourds or dollars]. He is on the list along
with Boniface. Before long…though Mr. Adelson warned us
against naming the gang. He said that if we name them like they
call out the name of successful candidates at the Baccalaureate,
we may as well dig our grave and buy a coffin. For the gang will
not agree to having their name called out on the airwaves as pillagers
of the country’s resources. Well anyway, though the engineer
thinks we must proceed with care, we promise that once we find
the list we will call the names out as if reporting successful
participant at the Baccalaureate exams.
We also talked to Mr. Belizaire from KOREM, Konbit Rezistans Mas
Yo, a militant with a long history of participation in the struggle,
who says that he too has detailed information about the list.
He thinks that it is blatant abuse. A crime, the way this gang
of politicians used special commissions. At the National Palace,
many were getting $20,000.00, $30,000.00, $40,000.00. Belizaire
thinks it is scandalous. President Preval and Prime Minister Alexis
must arrest this gang, according to Printemps Belizaire.
Recorded Field
Interview:
Printemps Belizaire “… the ANMH media,
that we’ve always renamed [inaudible]Haitian Mal-intentioned
Association, the overwhelming majority of them, for the
past two years, have had checks at Prime Minister's Latortue’s
office, at the National Palace, at the Interior Ministry, at DGI,
…Teleco. The airport had been taken over by these people…
The ANMH journalists and their bosses who were getting paid to
distort the news while the people were dying of misery, being
massacred by the repression. The political sector… all of
them, those who were at TELECO, those with director positions;
this is the gang that pillaged… We guarantee that we will
provide the list to be read on the airwaves, …As political
militants, we say that same as Gasner Raymond, this journalists
who denounced [inaudible] the little group of intellectuals, …[inaudible]
…he was found dead [inaudible] …so that they know
that their tax money that was sent here was pocketed by this gang.”
[Transcriber's Note: Sound quality of the more
than 4 minutes statement is very poor. HLLN will try to technically
clean up the audio and, if successful, update this report. Check
this link again on our website.]
Haiti Correspondent: There you have it. Much
debate is taking place. The totality of the political class is
in crisis. President Preval has the list. However we will point
out that when a leaf falls in water it does not drown right away.
The gang is really in trouble.
Turmoil in
Gonaives by Guy Philip's soldiers
Let’s move on to Artibonite, to Gonaives were the assailants
continue to be a nuisance, pillaging stores and terrorizing people.
The DDR commission president sent out an SOS to anyone in possession
of guns to make a symbolic act to stop the bloodshed, to come
and turn in their guns.
The president of the Disarmament
Commission said, referring to a container of arms confiscated
the other day, that there was no telling of the number of shipments
that reached their destination and that the police does not know
about. Something must be done about that…
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18, 2006
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Disarmament Fiasco. This was taken March 19, 2006, for the
Ezili Danto Witness Project at a public gathering. But on
July 7, 2006 Lame Timanchèt, a group with reported
connections to the coup d'etat police and forces massacred
more than 40 civilians in Matisan, many while asleep- See
Video Clips: Clip
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Clip2 -Clip3
See
also: Both Lame Timanchèt and
UN say their job in Haiti is to kill "bandits":
The failures of the UN and Haitian Police Chief, Mario Andresol
by Marguerite Laurent,
Haitian Perspectives, July 21, 2006
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once relatively rare in Haiti, became a daily occurence under
Group 184/Latortue's corrupt reign and continues with its sadistic
Ninjas, drugtraffickers, corrupt police officers and other ills
exacerbated by the unconstitutional regime and their rule of the
gun still in power with the social situation for the people untenable
Clashes between gangs, troops in Haiti, 2 killed
Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:29 AM BST184
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Two gunmen were shot to death
on Thursday as gangs continued to battle Haitian police and U.N.
troops in the troubled Caribbean nation, authorities said.
The gunfights took place near the Cite Soleil slum not far from
Haiti's international airport, the same area where several people
died in gunfire on Wednesday.
"They (gunmen) attacked us. We returned fire and two were
killed," said Frantz Lerebours, a spokesman for the Haitian
police. "We are not going to surrender the country to bandits."
He said one police officer was wounded during the clashes. A U.N.
spokeswoman said no peacekeepers were hurt.
Five people died on Wednesday in similar incidents. Four were
killed in Port-au-Prince and a policeman was gunned down in the
northern city of Gonaives.
Haiti suffered nearly two years of political and gang violence
following the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in early
2004. U.N. peacekeeping troops were sent to restore security after
Aristide was pushed from power by a bloody rebellion.
But the violence died down just before the poorest country in
the Americas held new elections in February, when former Aristide
ally Rene Preval won the presidency.
Authorities could offer no immediate explanation for the surge
in gunfire and kidnappings in recent days. At least nine people
were abducted on Wednesday, according to police sources and radio
reports.
Two U.S. missionaries who had been abducted on Sunday were released
on Thursday after a ransom was paid, authorities said.
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FBI says 2 U.S. missionaries released by kidnappers in Haiti
07/21/2006
By STEVENSON JACOBS / Associated Press
Two North Carolina missionaries kidnapped on their way to church
in Haiti's capital were freed Thursday after their families paid
an undisclosed ransom, the FBI said.
Tom Barron, a minister at the non-denominational Mustard Seed
church, and congregation member William Eugene Seastrum were driving
early Sunday when assailants stopped their car and dragged them
away. Both missionaries are from High Point, N.C.
"They negotiated the amount and they were released,"
said Judy Orihuela, an FBI spokeswoman in Miami.
Barron said in a phone interview that he and Seastrum were not
harmed, but he declined to discuss his ordeal.
"I've been able to talk with my family and for right now
I'd like to not say anything until things settle down," he
said.
The captors had initially sought $500,000 but lowered the demand
to $100,000 during negotiations with the FBI, said Leslie Dallemand,
chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's anti-kidnapping unit.
Dallemand said the men were finally released for a ransom believed
to be below $10,000.
In a statement released by the FBI, the men's families thanked
the agency and others in Haiti and the U.S. for helping to secure
their release. "We would like to thank all the people ...
who worked to bring Tom and Bill home," they said.
Both men were preparing to return to the United States, the FBI
said.
Separately, the FBI spokeswoman said another American, Charles
Adams of Albany, N.Y., was released Thursday after a day in captivity
when an undisclosed ransom was paid. Adams was in Haiti working
on a water treatment project.
Also, a Haitian employee of the U.S. Embassy was kidnapped Wednesday
and was still being held. The employee was driving in an embassy
vehicle with diplomatic license plates at the time of the kidnapping,
Orihuela said.
"We are very concerned about the welfare and well-being of
this individual and call for his immediate release," said
Ferial Saeed, an embassy spokeswoman.
Kidnappings, once relatively rare in Haiti, became
an almost a daily occurrence after a bloody revolt toppled former
president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. Kidnappings
leveled off following the February election of President Rene
Preval, but the problem has worsened again.
U.N. officials blame much of the kidnapping and other violence
on well-armed gangs — some of which are loyal to Aristide
and want Preval to allow the ousted president to return from exile
in South Africa.
The United Nations, which has about 8,800 peacekeepers in the
country, believes that much of the violence is aimed at destabilizing
the new government, but Preval says drug traffickers, corrupt
police and other criminals are behind the problem.
The special U.N. envoy to Haiti, Edmond Mulet, met with Preval
on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss the deteriorating security
climate, officials said.
It is unclear how long Barron and Seastrum had been in Haiti.
Dallemand said the two were staying at a hotel in the Port-au-Prince
neighborhood of Delmas, where many kidnappings occur.
Last month, Canadian missionary Ed Hughes was abducted from a
rural town north of Port-au-Prince where he runs an orphanage.
The 72-year-old was freed a week later after an undisclosed ransom
was paid.
At least 29 people have been reported kidnapped in Haiti so far
in July, about a third of them U.S. citizens, Dallemand said.
Last year, 43 Americans were kidnapped in Haiti, including three
who were killed in attempted abductions, according to the U.S.
Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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Two individuals from a well-known Haitian family are alleged to
have participated in the kidnapping of a young girl from a wealthy
family
Port-au-Prince, July 17, 2006 (AHP); Haitian police officers arrested
an individual Friday who they say is linked to a kidnapping that
took place on the runway of the Port-au-Prince international airport.
According to a source close to the Haitian National Police (PNH),
the man who was arrested is Nicolas Coles. He was on board a flight
about to depart to Canada.
The source said that there was not yet any tangible proof that
Mr. Coles was directly involved in the kidnapping last week of
the daughter of the owner of one of the largest supermarkets in
the capital.
However, two days before the kidnapping, he reportedly told the
brother of the young girl that his sister would be kidnapped.
And another young man from a well-known family named Carbonneau
is allegedly the main person behind this kidnapping, which caused
a great deal of anxiety in the capital and resulted in a large
ransom reportedly being paid.
Another source said that the young Mr. Carbonneau was closely
linked to a man named Jean-Michel, one of the most formidable
members of the Ti Manchèt Army, the gang formed in 2005
under the interim regime and which has already carried out two
massacres (August 2005 and July 2006) which left a total of some
40 people dead in the populist district of Grand'ravine (south
of the capital).
A photo of the two men was reportedly found by the police.
"As for Nicolas Coles, he remains under police orders as
investigators attempt to learn what information he had about the
kidnapping in question, a senior police official told AHP, adding
that it is yet further evidence that the kidnappers do not come
solely from the deprived neighborhoods."
The police official also confirmed that the same individuals implicated
in the massacre of August 2005 organized the violence last week
that claimed the lives of more than 20 people including children.
He emphasized yet again that two of the most formidable bandits
of the Ti Manchèt Army, including Jean Michel, were set
free immediately after the 2005 massacre.
And the weapons that were provided to them by police officers
who were collaborating with them are still in their possession.
At the same time, police officers who were kicked out of the force
due to their participation in these violent incidents are said
to be preparing to rejoin the Haitian National Police, according
to this same source.
AHP July 17, 2006 2:40 PM
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Wave of kidnappings leaves Haiti
shaken
By STEVENSON JACOBS, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jul 22, 3:46 PM ET
A new rash of kidnappings has raised fears that well-armed, politically
aligned street gangs are seeking to destabilize Haiti's new government,
threatening U.N.-led efforts to restore security 2 1/2 years after
a crippling revolt.
Others say the gangs are simply after cash and see kidnappings
as a lucrative source of revenue to buy more arms and fuel other
criminal enterprises in this impoverished country.
But most agree on one thing — the problem is getting worse.
It reached boiling point this week when scores of people —
including three Americans — were snatched by gunmen in an
unprecedented series of bold, daylight attacks in the capital
of Port-au-Prince.
Almost no one has been spared — missionaries, employees
of foreign embassies and Haitians rich and poor have fallen victim
to the trend that has given Haiti the highest kidnapping rate
in the Americas.
"We are beyond afraid," said Patrick Gadere, owner of
ceramic tile factory that has been forced to close its warehouse
because of violence and whose brother was abducted. "We've
been shot at, robbed, kidnapped. We have no other way to make
a living."
The kidnapping surge has destroyed a tense calm that prevailed
since President Rene Preval took power in May, and prompted new
criticism against the U.N. peacekeeping force sent to restore
order after the 2004 revolt that toppled ex-president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
At least 30 people have been kidnapped so far in July, about the
same number for all of June, said Leslie Dallemand, chief of the
U.N.'s anti-kidnapping unit in Haiti. The number is likely much
higher because many families prefer to negotiate with kidnappers
rather than notify police.
"I haven't had this high of volume since last year,"
when gangs went on a kidnapping spree before elections, Dallemand
said.
Among the victims were three Americans, including two missionaries
grabbed by gangsters on their way to church. All three were released
unharmed Thursday after negotiations involving the FBI.
Charles Adams, a 70-year-old from Queensbury, N.Y., was working
on a water treatment program. He was stuck in traffic, driving
back from a meeting, when armed men ambushed his vehicle near
the capital's international airport.
"All the sudden I looked up, doors were being ripped open
and there were all these people with revolvers and long guns walking
around. It was quite an awakening," said Adams, who was freed
after a day without paying a ransom.
The abductions come amid sharply rising violence in the capital,
including this month's slum massacre of 22 people. Police blamed
the killings on warring gangs but have made no arrests.
U.N. and Haitian officials disagree on whether the recent violence
is politically motivated.
The U.N. mission says the coordinated nature of the recent attacks
suggest an attempt to stir chaos by the gangs, many of which are
loyal to Aristide and are demanding his return from exile in South
Africa.
"Their violence is motivated to draw attention to the government
that they are dissatisfied," U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst
said. "It obviously has a destabilizing effect."
But Preval insists the troubles are criminal — not political
— acts by wanted fugitives, corrupt police and drug traffickers.
Members of Preval's Lespwa party and the business community are
calling on the 8,800-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission to take
a harder line against gangs.
"This is the first time in our country's history that we've
had so many armed forces and yet we're still in this mess,"
said Gadere, the tile factory owner.
U.N. and police officials say they're doing all they can and blame
Haiti's notoriously corrupt justice system for releasing suspected
kidnappers and other criminal suspects who can afford bribes.
"We can't keep criminals off the streets if the courts keep
letting them go," police chief Mario Andresol said.
Kidnappings were once rare in Haiti, the poorest country in the
Western Hemisphere. The trend flourished after Aristide's departure
but leveled off shortly after elections in February.
Foreigners have been particularly vulnerable because they fetch
a higher ransom, usually around $10,000, compared to about half
that for a Haitian.
Last year, 43 Americans were kidnapped in Haiti, including three
who were killed in attempted abductions, according to the U.S.
Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
"We have agents down there almost constantly working kidnappings,"
said Judy Orihuela, an FBI special agent in Miami. "It's
surpassed Colombia."
Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
"When you make
a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which
otherwise go untapped...........If you limit your choices only
to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself
from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise."
Robert Fritz
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Drèd
Wilme, A Hero for the 21st Century
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Pèralte
Speaks!
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Yvon Neptune's
Letter From Jail
Pacot -
April 20, 2005
(Kreyol & English)
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photo for larger image |
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Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme - on "Wanted poster" of suspects wanted by the
Haitian police. |
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Emmanuel
"Dread" Wilme speaks:
Radio Lakou New York, April 4, 2005 interview with Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme
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The
Crucifiction of Emmanuel
"Dread" Wilme,
a historical
perspective
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Urgent
Action:
Demand a Stop
to the Killings
in Cite Soleil
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Sample letters &
Contact info
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Denounce Canada's role in Haiti:
Canadian officials Contact Infomation
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Urge the Caribbean
Community to stand firm in not recognizing the illegal Latortue
regime: |
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Selected
CARICOM Contacts |
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Key
CARICOM
Email
Addresses |
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Slide
Show at the
July 27, 2004 Haiti Forum Press Conference during the DNC
in Boston honoring those who stand firm for Haiti and democracy;
those who tell the truth about Haiti; Presenting the Haiti
Resolution, and; remembering Haiti's revolutionary legacy
in 2004 and all those who have lost life or liberty fighting
against the Feb. 29, 2004 Coup d'etat and its consequences |
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