Partial List of Coup D'etat massacres and human rights abuses (See, latest updates)
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Matters to be Investigated by International Tribunal
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Feb. 2004: 3,000 prisoners freed. U.S. Marines turned a medical university into prison and barracks. Youth radio and tv station (Radyo & Tele Timoun) ransacked and shut down. Union buses burnt.

"As the rebels took cities throughout February, they freed all of the prisoners. Approximately 3,000 were freed overall, including many who were serving sentences or awaiting trial for serious human rights violations. There is no apparent effort being made to capture the escapees, among whom were persons convicted in the Raboteau Massacre trial."During Feb, 2004, the Coup D'etat people released the triggerman in the Jean Dominque case from prison. Other convicted criminals and known human rights abusers such as Jean Pierre Baptiste (alias Jean Tatoune), Jean-Claude Duperval, Carl Dorelien, and Prosper Avril were free to roam Haiti, join the Latortue police force or run for President of Haiti!. The Marines shut out over 200 medical students from their school and turned the classrooms into barracks and prison cells. Literary, health, and social programs for the poor where destroyed.

Meanwhile, within a few months, Haiti's jails were re-filled with the members of the Constitutional government, including the constitutional Prime Minister of Haiti, Yvon Neptune and 70-year old grandmother, So Ann. (See, National Lawyers Guild Report, Phase 2 and,

March 13, 2004
Bel Air massacres by the US Marines, 2004.

"Multiple witnesses described an incident that occurred on March 13 in which Marines fired upon and killed up to ten Haitians in Bel-Air, a poor section of Port-au-Prince. According to an official at the U.S.

Embassy, the Marines thought they were being fired upon and returned fire. However, witnesses interviewed by the delegation consistently declared that there were no guns being fired, that they were having a demonstration with flares or fireworks. (One such interviewee was a 16-year-old male who was shot in the back by a Marine bullet.) It appears that American armed forces overreacted and used excessive force on this occasion. " (See, National Lawyers Guild Report, Phase II)

October 13, 2004 - Arbitrary and capricious arrest of Father Jean-Juste as he was feeding children at his church in Port-au-Prince by hooded police who burst in, firing shots, wounding three children with bullets, smashing windows, throwing father Jean Juste to the ground and dragging to prison him head first into their truck. Jean Juste remained in prison for 2 months on a "disturbing the peace" charge that carries a fine equivalent to 30 U.S. cents. http://www.konpay.org/pmwiki.php/Main/ReportNovember5

May 10 2004, US Marines arrest 10year old grandmother in the dead of night, put black plastic bags and handcuffs on all 11 occupants in the home, even on her 5 year old grandson who was asleep and transported them to the barracks for questioning. She been in prison since.

May 18, 2004 Flag day- 9 unarmed demonstrators killed by men-in-black with UN firepower cover.

May 18, 2005 Flag day - 3 unarmed demonstrators killed by men-in-black after demonstration where men-in-black lined the streets intimidating the peaceful protesters.

October 26, 2005 - Fort National Massacre

According to a news account, "On the afternoon of Oct. 26, (2004) masked men dressed in the black uniforms of Haitian riot police executed 13 people from the Rue Estim? quarter of Fort National near Bel-air. Some of the victims were killed in the slum while others were driven to and executed at Titanyen, a desolate dumping ground just north of the capital. Three of the victims were young women.

According to witnesses, the killers pulled up in four vehicles with Police plates in front of the house on Rue Estimè. They were accompanied by an ambulance. " http://www.haitixchange.com/hx/article.asp?article_id=21

October 28, 2004 - Also it was reported that "On Oct. 28, four other youths were found executed on Rue P?an in the Bel-air neighborhood. Two of the victims had their hand tied.

One of the victims was shirtless, suggesting that he had been abducted from or near his home.

"Six police cars came up here with about 15 officers," one of the witnesses told a New York Times reporter. "They took the men out of the cars, put them on the ground and shot them in the head." http://www.haitixchange.com/hx/article.asp?article_id=21

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December 1, 2004
Prison Guards and Police Massacre of detainees - over 100 prison detainees slaugtered (some in their cells) by Haitian police forces and prison guards.

December 19, 2004
Prison force-out by men-in-black and prison guards.

On February 28, 2005 and April 27, 2005:

"At least 11 unarmed demonstrators were killed in the two attacks prompting U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to echo demands by human rights organizations for an official investigation."
http://www.world-crisis.com/news/1152_0_1_0_C/

"The use of lethal and indiscriminate violence by the police to disperse and repress demonstrators only serves to increase tension in an already violence-torn country, said Amnesty International today as it condemned the repression against Lavalas Party supporters by Haitian National Police (HNP) officers in Port-au-Prince on 27 April.

According to reports, police officers opened fire against Lavalas supporters demonstrating near the United Nations Mission headquarters in Bourdon, Port-au-Prince. At least 5 people died during the demonstration and 4 others are reported to have died later on as a consequence of their wounds. Several demonstrators and bystanders were also injured.

"The repression of this peaceful demonstration is not an isolated case. The insecurity and ongoing confrontation with armed groups should not be used as a pretext to crack down on demonstrators and the right to freedom of _expression and association," Amnesty International said."
http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/news.nsf/print/ENGAMR360022005

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June 17, 2005, at least 10 people killed by police.

"The Haitian police moved against Bel Air again on June 17 killing at least 10 people in another bloody raid. Among the first victims shot by the police that day was 17 year-old Natalie Luzius. She was clutching her 6 month-old son Fritznel Luzius to protect him at the moment a police bullet struck her in the head and killed her.
http://www.world-crisis.com/news/1152_0_1_0_C/

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June 29, 2005 - "UN forces carried out a large military operation in
Bel Air on June 29 stating that only combatants were killed. Residents claim the UN shot and killed unarmed bystanders during the course of that operation as well. This apparent strategy of alternating attacks by the Haitian police and UN military forces on pro-Aristide communities continues." http://www.world-crisis.com/news/

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July 6, 2005
The UN slaughtered a 1-year old, 4-year old, a pregnant woman, a fetus, a handicapped man, a 2-year old ........ (For more details, see, Final Delegation report

Excerpt form the July 6, 2005 report:

"People were killed in their homes and also just outside of their homes, on the way to work. According to this account, one man named Leon Cherry, age 46, was shot and killed on his way to work for a flower company. Another man, Mones Belizaire, was shot as he got ready to go to work in a local sweatshop and subsequently died from a stomach infection. A woman who was a street vendor was shot in the head and killed instantly. One man was shot in his ribs while he was trying to brush his teeth.

Another man was shot in the jaw as he left his house to try and get some money for his wife's medical costs; he endured a slow death. Yet another man named Mira was shot and killed while urinating in his home.

A mother, Sonia Romelus, and her two young children were killed in their home, reportedly by UN fire after UN forces lobbed a 83-CC gas grenade into their home.

The video footage taken by this eyewitness during the operation shows many of these killings while they were occurring. While it does not show images of the UN troops as they were firing into the community, one can view at least 10 unarmed people either in the process of being killed or who were already killed. Many were killed by headshots, such as 31-year-old Leonce Chery moments after a gun shot ripped off his jaw. Chery was clearly unarmed. There are audible machine gun blasts occurring in the background. The video footage also depicts the bodies of Sonia Romelus and her two young children, lying in blood on the floor of their home. Apparently, Sonia was killed by the same bullet that passed through the body of her one-year old infant son Nelson.

She was reportedly holding him as the UN opened fire. Next to their two bodies is that
of her four-old son Stanley Romelus who was killed by a shot to the head. The video
footage shows a weeping Fredi Romelus, recounting how UN troops lobbed a red smoke grenade into his house and then opened fire killing his wife and two children. "They surrounded our house this morning and I ran thinking my wife and the children were behind me.

They couldn't get out and the blan [UN] fired into the house." The video also shows the
grenade canister, apparently left in the house.

The eyewitness source claimed that the operation was primarily conducted by UN forces, with the Haitian National Police this time taking a back seat...."

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See also: Report: Keeping the Peace in Haiti?: An Assessment of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti |Clinical Advocacy Project Human Rights Program, Harvard Law
School | March 25, 2005 http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/hrp/CAP/
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August 5 and 7, 2005 -

Solino Massacre - more than 12 women killed with machetes on August 5, 2005, some
after being wounded by Haitian police and then seven more people killed on August 7, 2005.

Week of August 10 at Solino (Massacre)

7 more murdered by Haitian police with civilian attaches chopping bodies with police-issued machetes.
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SEE: HAITIAN PERSPECTIVES

l. See. HLLN Statement: Ron Daniels' Coup D'etat Disinformation campaign to continue at
July 22-24, 2005 'No Haitian Voters, No Problem, Symposium, Part 2| Haitian Perspectives
by Marguerite Laurent July 13, 2005
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/danielsnovote.html

2. See also, Ron Daniels and the Haiti Support Project is at it
again...http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/danielsatitagain.html

3. HLLN's Open Letter Demanding a Stop to UN Slaughter of Haitian Civilians in Site Soleil, Haiti
| Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent July 21, 2005
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/openletter.html

4. HLLN Statement: Jack Roche's Kidnapping and death used by US-backed "Council of the Wise"
and Coup D'etat regime to criminalize Lavalas: Pretext for cracking down more on the poor masses
and to justify upcoming sham elections | Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent July 17, 2005
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/rocheused.html

5 . Noreiga's attack on President Aristide and the People of Haiti causes pro-democracy Haitians
to demand his resignation | Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent July 24, 2005
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/noreigago.html

6. Deliver this Letter to Lula: Open Letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva of Brazil from New
York Haitians | Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent July 28, 2005.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/lulaletter.html

7. Have the Latortues Kidnapped Democracy in Haiti? by Anthony Fenton| ZNet | June 26, 2005 http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kidnapdemo.html

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- Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed (learn more)