Latest updates Coup D'etat massacres, victims and human rights abuses
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Matters to be Investigated by International Tribunal
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Coup D’etat Massacred Victim List – HLLN's continuing investigation (Check often for updates.)

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(See HLLN's original List of massacres to be updated with this new information:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law/massacrelist.html . More HLLN volunteers needed to go through video testimonies and with technical expertise in Excel to help input thousands of names of victims and arbitrarily arrested and indefinitely detained coup d'etat prisoners. Donations to support this work is essential. Please consider donating funds so we may complete our first video documentaries on the coup d'etat victims. To Donate, please go to )
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Dec. 28, 2004 - Jelin Augustin was carrying water. Police called him over, ordered him on the ground and executed him.

October 28, 2004 – Four men murdered by Latortue’s men-in-black. (See, Shrine video clip)

March 17, 2004 - Rudy Nicodern (27) murdered at Rue Enterrement

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February 28, 2005 – 27 people reported murdered

According to our sources, initially after the February 28, 2005 massacre 8 bodies were found and buried at public funerals. Then more corpse were found thrown away under the Ravine Canapevert of returning demonstrators, ambushed and murdered by the men-in-black bringing the total dead for February 28, 2005 to 27 people. (Recorded interview testimony of these details from Haiti on August 22, 2005 for the Ezili Danto Witness program available.)

Amongst the dead who were identified are: Stanley Blo and Sannel Joseph (our investigation continues for identification of the others and this will be updated as we get to the mounds of information we’ve received for the Ezili Danto Witness project from Haiti. Keep checking our website for updates.)

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October 26, 2004 – Massacre at Fort National – 18 people murdered by men in black.

A certain Desiral, Agent 4 in the policeforce was the head of the men-in-black commando unit that massacred 18 people at Fort National. After the massacre, said Desiral, was promoted within the police ranks. Initially the Fort National body count was reported at 13 bodies found inside the house the commandos had invaded. Later, the people in the area added 5 more corpse to the massacre because the ambulance had gone with these Fort National bodies, bringing the total to 18 executed dead. Amongst the dead were:
Reginald Francois, Vercius Fanfan (son of Elius Fanfan, coach of Aigle Noir (the black eagle) soccer team and a former National Team soccer player for Haiti. Also summarily executed by Desiral’s men at Fort National was Maurice Moreau. (The other names to be added.)

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Jan. 12, 2005 – JOURNALIST Jimmy Charles arrested by MINUSTHA. His family later found his body in the morgue.

January 17, 2005
Ederson Joseph murdered at Fort National.

Jan. 30, 2005 Corridor Bastia in Bel Air- 5 murdered by Latortue’s men-in-black including Wilkens Bosse a 10th grade student. According to Wilken Bosse mother on video testimony, the men-in-black came to their house and started roughing up her son. He pleaded with them saying he was not a gangster or into any illegal activities, that he was a student in the 10th grade. These police trained by Canadians, US, CIVPOL and UN in Haiti responded, “we’ll graduate you” and promptly shot Wilken Bosse through the head dead. He left behind one babychild and a distraught and grief-stricken family. (Video testimony of his mother is available from the Ezili Danto witness project)
February 4, 2005 - Joseph Jeff (15) - murdered by Latortue police.

Feb. 25, 2005 - Diego Dieujenijus, Bel Air

Date______? Bel Air | Michelet Petit murdered by men-in-black.
Michelet Petit left behind two small children. He was his mother’s only provider. Now she with no provider for herself or his children - maman rete avek de bra-l balanse! Video testimony grieving mother explaining how Michelet Petit earned his living by being a “Police beton.” When we asked what is a Police Beton. It was explained that a “police beton” is someone with community respect who voluntarily would goes to a busy intersection or heavily trafficked crossroads and direct the drivers. It takes years of apprenticeship to get your own crossing. Drivers pay the experience crossing guides a tip for the service. It requires great skill to be good at this and to command the attention of drivers each trying to get the right-of-way to go first at a busy intersection. That’s how Michelet Petit made his living, took care of his mother and two babies. He was not a gangster or criminal. Like all the others, his crime was that he lived in Bel Air and could or may have sympathy for the oustered Constitutional government that empowered the poor.

April 27, 2005 – 7 unarmed demonstrators reported murdered by Haitian police. MINUSTHA present.

April 27, 2005
- Rodriguez Joinville died during the April 27, 2005 demonstration from a police bullet. He was amongst the 7 people who died in front of UN site in Bourdon.
(No date, location Bel Air) Boniface disappeared. Presumed dead by his family.

(Boniface’s family provided his picture at shrine clip of the Coup D’etat dead and disappeared located at Plas Delmas 2 on video footage obtained for Ezili Danto Witness Project)

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June 4, 2005 – 54 people executed by Latortue’s police at the Cathedral Massacre in Bel Air.

According to our video clip testimony of eyewitnesses, including of a Haitian women who was beaten and miraculously escaped the police execution that June 4th day.

CIMO, the men-in-black descended upon the residents with MINUSTHA troops near the area of Perpetuel church. The men-in-black took out gasoline cans and started burning the people’s houses. About 6 homes were torched. As the people ran from the houses they were beaten and then the police gathered them up and put them in a waiting paddy wagon or truck. MINUSTHA stayed in their tanks and watched the houses burn and the people being beaten, giving cover to the police and intimidating the people with their firepower and presence. The police took 54 people in all and rode them down the street behind the Cathedral, forced them to the ground and executed them.

According to one eyewitness woman’s video testimony, after the paddy wagon left and the UN had let the Haitian police carry out their massacre, then they half-heartedly got out of the tanks and “pretended to put out the fire.” Another woman testified the UN soldiers just let the houses burn.
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June 26, 2005
Fritz Kader – Sandal maker, shot by Latortue’s men-in-black in front of his home while working on his sandal-making business on Rue Markarjou, in the back of Perpetuel church, Bel Air (Video footage of corpse showing bullet hole in chest available from the Ezili Danto Witness Program.)

June 27, 2005 UN troops blow Papout's head off.
Papout – Head blown off while sitting in a wheelchair on porch in his own home on Rue St. Martin in Bel Air. Also killed by police/MINUTHA bullets on this June 27, 2005 operations in Bel Air are Natalie St. Ciry, Nouris and several market women (Video footage of grieving family of Papout and his blown off head just minutes after the shooting available from Ezili Danto Witness Program)

July 6, 2005 - 23 unarmed residents of Site Soley murdered, 27 wounded by UN troops in UN's Operation Iron Fist

Dred Wilme (31)
Sonia Romelus (22 year-old) killed by the same bullet that passed through the body of her 1 year-old infant son Nelson. Next to them was her four year-old son Stanley Romelus who was killed by a single shot to the head.

July 7, 2005- Rue Des Frond Forts, Bel Air-

Emano Pierre shot in the head on Rue Des Frond Forts, Bel Air by Latortue’s men-in-black.

(According to Emano Pierre’s brother who explains how he witnessed the shooting, his brother was walking along Rue Des Frond Forts. The men-in-black stopped him, asked him some questions, search him for weapons, they found nothing but shot him in the head anyway and left him in the street. The traumatized brother was video taped minutes later, shaking and incoherent, trying to figure out why they killed his brother. He wanted to know if he could take the body with him. He asked out loud to no one in particular did he have permission to take his brother’s body. Then, the video shows the brother loading up Emano Pierre’s body on a wheel cart and hauling it off down street. At one juncture, the brother stopped pushing the cart and took off his brother’s shirt and pants. Leaving him just with his black boxers underpants on alone. Later, after being sent this footage, we the Ezili Danto Witness project asked why did the brother take off Emano Pierre’s clothes after the police shot him. We were informed because “it’s a mystical thing.”)

Date_____?, Bel Air
Samuel Casseus shot dead. (See, picture of Casseus corpse on Shrine video clip)


Datte____?, Bel Air
Stanley Phillip executed says witnesses by men-in-black. (See his bullet-riddled body on Shrine clip)


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Also murdered on Rue Des Frond Forts, Bel Air, was
Steve Blemur (aka Ti Ligonde). According to witnesses from the area Ti Ligonde was murdered by a civilian attaché working for the Haitian police named Nason. (Shrine video clip)

July 8, 2005 – Massacre at Rue Ti Mas, near Bel-Air – 29 people murdered by Haitian police who entered the area with their civilian attaches and proceeded to murder the inhabitants. Video footage shows bodies are strewed all over Rue Ti Mas and in the corridors and alleyways including body of Jenel Jelin (18 years old).

Video shows: In one alleyway lie the bodies of two young brothers. Steve Fenelor, 17 years old and TiBout Fenelor, 15 years old. Their bodies riddled by Latortue’s US-bought bullets. The family of the Fenelor brothers are seen on the video describing how Latortue’s men-in-black shot the brothers and even came into their house, pulled out another young family member who was hiding under a bed and shot him in the head dead. Our recorded (interviewed on August 22, 2005) source indicates a total 8 people from this house were murdered that day, July 8, 2005. Testimony of the Fenelor brothers’ grandfather telling how the police shot them without cause is available from the Ezili Danto Witness Project.

July 12, 2005 Portairs-Leogane in Port-au-Prince | 16 children, at a loading station for Tap Taps, ages 12 to 16-years-old summarily executed by Haitian police in black ski masks and black uniforms on suspicion they were providing information to street gangs.

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July 18, 2005 – Bel Air
Ruben Brisso and Nadia (18) and four months pregnant, arrested, later found dead in morgue by their family.

(According to the mother of Ruben Brisso, Latortue’s men-in-black arrested her son along with his 18-year old girlfriend Nadia who was four months pregnant. They later found the two at the morgue. Their bodies tortured and riddle with bullets. The son was in school and returned to Bel Air simply to take his graduation (baccalaureate) exams, which were scheduled for July______, 2005. The police killed him on July 18, 2005.

Claire Antoine tells how she had managed, through great hardship to get her son out of Bel Air so he wouldn’t face this sort of end. The son came to Bel Air just days before his school graduating exams. He was arrested while going for an outing with his girlfriend to buy “fritay” and then beaten, tortured and shot by Latortue’s men-in-black (Grieving mother, Claire Antoine’s testimony, and video footage of tortured bodies of Nadia and Ruben are available on video from the Ezili Danto Witness Program.)
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July 19, 2005, Delma 18 - 5 boys ages 12 and 13 years old found dead on the Corner of Delmas 18; Eyewitnesses in the area said they were executed by Men-in-black police who accused the boys of being Aristide supporters and "chimers" - gangsters.

AUGUST, 2005: (to be continued)

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August 8, 2005 Solino - 12 women dismembered by Coup D'etat paramilitary death squads.

Paramilitary death squads ("attaches") accompanied the Haitian National Police, dismembered at least 12 young Haitian women, many were known as strong grassroots Lavalas community leaders, threw their body parts in black plastic bags in a Solino ditch where dogs could be seeen breaking into the bags to eat the body parts.

Week of August 10 and beginning of August 15 –more than20 executed with machetes in Solino, Bel-Air. Genel Gilo was an eyewitness to the execution of a teenage boy. Peterson Larose said he witnessed his 17 year old pregnant girlfriend being hacked to death by paramilitary or civilians attaches accompanying the police officers.

Shaba – In the area of Solino, Bel- air was brutalized then cut and sliced with machetes by civilian attaches who came with Haitian police and then burned alive (See also, AHP article, Aug 18, 2005)

Sat. August 20 and Sun. 21, 2005

Grande Ravine District - 20 people hacked to death by machete. A dozen others were injured Saturday and Sunday in the populist district of Grand' Ravine as a soccer match was taking place. "The mutilated victims were accused of being "bandits". ...Lionel Mondestin, one of the leaders of MUR (Republican Unity Movement) who lives in the Grand Ravine district, indicated that some 20 people were murdered during this attack. According to Lionel Mondestin, members of the National Police accompanied by men armed with machetes looking for presumed bandits encircled the neighborhood before the killings started. He also indicated that MINUSTAH officers were present at the scene. Several homes were also set on fire during the grave incidents at Grand Ravine....Several area residents have abandoned their homes for fear of being murdered. Many sectors recently spoke out in condemnation of the distribution of machetes in the populist districts carried out with the intention of finding ways to provoke area residents to kill one another." (Excerpted from AHP report, Aug. 22, 2005)

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