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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: UN: Extrajudicial executions continue in Haiti
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- /** reg.carib: 314.0 **/
- ** Topic: protest human rights abuses in hai **
- ** Written 2:23 pm Aug 13, 1992 by lchr in cdp:reg.carib **
- August 10, 1992
-
- VIA TELECOPY
-
- Bacre Waly Ndiaye
- Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions
- Human Rights Centre
- United Nations
- Palais des Nations
- CH-1211
- Geneva 10
- Switzerland
-
- Dear Mr. Ndiaye:
-
- Extrajudicial executions continue to plague Haiti.
- The sheer number of executions since May 1992 has
- increased at an alarming rate. The following is only a
- sample of those executions the Lawyers Committee has
- been able to confirm:
-
- Georges Izmery was executed on May 26, 1992 at
- approximately 6:00 p.m. Mr. Izmery was leaving his
- office and walking to his car when he was shot two
- times in the back in front of hundreds of witnesses
- less than 200 feet from a major police station in
- downtown Port-au-Prince. Mr. Izmery'd brother Antoine
- is a well known supporter of President Aristide and he
- has received death threats.
-
- Six cadavers of young men who had been executed were
- discovered at Morne Carbrit, about 30 miles north of
- Port-au-Prince on June 24, 1992. Their bodies were in
- an advanced state of decay. Each showed bullet wounds.
-
-
- On June 24, 1992, Gary Janty, 23 years old, from
- Santos was assassinated by a sergeant in the Haitian
- army nicknamed "Taye Pw
- l". Reports indicate that the
- sergeant was later arrested but we have no details on
- whether he has been charged or whether he remains in
- detention.
-
- On May 19, 1992, five bodies were found on the Delmas
- road to the Port-au-Prince suburb of Ptionville. All
- five bodies had bullet wounds. The executions occurred
- one day after a plane had flown over Port-au-Prince and
- dropped leaflets with President Aristide's picture.
-
-
- In Anse-d'Hainault, in southwestern Haiti, a soldier
- named Tourbeck arrested and beat to death an unnamed
- young man approximately 20 years old. This young man
- had been detained in prison and had vomited blood for
- several hours and received no medical attention before
- dying.
-
- On July 9, in the industrial zone near the Port-au-
- Prince airport, three workers, two women and one man,
- were executed by armed civilians who jumped out of a
- jeep and shot them. This occurred at approximately 2:00
- p.m. on the road to the airport.
-
- On July 15, 1992, at approximately 4:00 a.m. an armed
- civilian shot and killed a young man named Wilfred who
- was putting up photos of President Aristide on walls in
- the Cit Soliel section of Port-au-Prince. The body was
- not taken away until 7:00 p.m. the same day.
-
- On August 3, 1992, Mr. Robinson Joseph, former
- director of the Protestant Church radio station, Radio
- Lumi
- re, was shot and killed by soldiers in downtown
- Port-au-Prince. The soldiers were in the process of
- searching all houses and cars in this section of Port-
- au-Prince following an attack the previous day on a
- police station. Soldiers allege that they thought Mr.
- Robinson was trying to avoid the search and shot him
- twice in the head killing him. Numerous other rounds
- were fired into his car. Even if true, the use of
- deadly force by the Haitian armed forces seems
- completely unwarranted and illegal under international
- law. The Lawyers Committee has been informed that the
- Haitian army has begun an investigation into the
- killing.
-
- The Lawyers Committee is trying to obtain more
- information about an extremely disturbing report. On
- July 19, 1992, a group of 86 Haitians attempted to
- leave the country on an overcrowded boat from the area
- called Sources Puantes, approximately 20 miles
- northeast of Port-au-Prince. After paying
- approximately $500 each to the owner of the boat, the
- boat began its departure at approximately 5:00 a.m.
- The boat had barely left the dock when it is reported
- that a truckload of soldiers arrived and began firing
- on the boat. Several bodies were later recovered
- reportedly with bullet wounds and some also showed
- signs of having been strangled. As of Wednesday, July
- 22, it is reported that 35 corpses had been recovered.
- Because of the danger of doing follow up human rights
- work in Haiti, various human rights
- organizations around the country have only been able to
- compile a partial list of names. Once further
- information is obtained, I will send you details about
- this incident.
-
- Please feel free to contact me if you have any
- questions or need additional information. The
- situation in Haiti has reached alarming proportions.
- Whatever emergency measures are available to the
- Special Rapporteur should be undertaken as quickly as
- possible.
-
-
-
-
- Sincerely,
-
-
-
- William G. O'Neill
- Deputy Director
-
-
- CC: Mr. Marco Tulio Bruni-Celli
- Gen. Raoul Cdras
- Mr. Marc Bazin
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