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Both
Lame Timanchèt and the UN say their job in Haiti is to
kill "bandits:"
The failures of the UN and Haitian Police Chief, Mario Andresol
by Èzili Dantò, Haitian Perspectives,
July 21, 2006
Last year, after the Soccer Match massacre of August 20, 2006
where a gang formed under the US-supported Latortue regime butchered
more than 60 Haitians in Gran Ravine, the UN announced it would
investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice. (Scroll down
to Reuters article, dated August 25, 2005 "U.N.
to investigate Haiti slum lynchings" by Guyler
Delva.)
In this Reuters article and in subsequent public announcements,
Mario Andresol, who many see as a Washington Coup-detat appointee,
made loud and passionate statements about how things would be
different under his tutelage as police chief than it was under
his other coup d’etat predecessor, Leon Charles.
Leon Charles, the former director of the DCPJ (Central Management
of the Judicial Police) whom Andresol replaced was then appointed
adviser at the Haitian embassy in Washington, where he got a new
job as “in charge of security.”
This pattern of the Internationals giving jobs and monies to their
corrupt agents in Haiti is usual. As we remember that Latortue
got a $2Million dollar personal budget as the US-imposed Prime
Minister (that’s $80,000 US per-diem PER MONTH) during his
reign and the old disbanded Haitian army got 10 years
back pay.)
Mario Andresol took the reigns as new Director-General of the
Haitian
National Police (DCPJ) in July, 2005. The Lame Timanchet\Haitian
police
Soccer Match massacres occurred August, 2005. Two months later,
AP reported
this public statement by Andresol: "There is a large corruption
problem,"
said Andresol, who just returned from touring the country's police
units.
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".......Martissant was also the scene of the police-orchestrated
“soccer field massacre” before 5,000 witnesses
on August 20, 2005, during a soccer game organized by the
US government agency USAID . Police
chief Mario Andresol admitted [during an October 2005 interview
with the Commission of Inquiry] that the original police plan
was to seize Lavalas activists at half-time, as they were
pointed out by police informants . At a signal
from Inspector Jean-Michel Yves Gaspard, police opened fire
on the soccer fans, as film cameras rolled .
The Little Machete Army, carrying machetes distributed earlier
by police, then moved through the crowd, hacking to death
those fingered as Lavalas, while UN troops, stationed close
by the soccer field, did nothing . [The next day, the Little
Machete Army returned to terrorize Grande Ravine, burning
down houses including the shop of community leader Esterne
Bruner . ] A police investigation documented involvement of
20 police officers in the Soccer Field Massacre, and 15 of
them were arrested . But by March 2006 all police had been
exonerated and freed..."(See,
" Thousands
march to end reign of terror by death squads and UN troops
" Haiti Action Committee, by Dave Welsh, Oct. 16, 2006
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"About a quarter of the force
is involved in corruption, kidnappings or even arms trafficking."
(see, AP Oct. 11, 2005 article "In
notoriously troubled Haiti, 15 officers to face the bar of justice
for brutal murders")
When eventually, after two months of investigations, the policemen
involved with Lame Timanchet and the brutal Gran Ravine Soccer
Match murders were arrested, Haitian National Police chief Mario
Andresol said that the 15 officers arrested would be prosecuted
for their suspected role in the August
2005 killings at the soccer stadium.
Instead, all 15 officers were released and to date the UN has
given no result of their announced investigations into the Gran
Ravine slaughters.
In fact, the UN has gone on, since then, to continue terrorizing
the poor
civilians in Site Soley, Pele, Simon, et al. In effect, simply
working, it
seems to Haitians, in alliance with the coup d'etat death squads,
like the
corrupt police and their Lame Timanchèt assassins, who
remain free to rain death and destruction upon Haiti's poor.
Both the UN and Lame Timanchèt give the same reasons for
their slaughters of innocent Haitian civilians. To wit, remember
this Reuters reporting on the Lame Timanchet August massacre:
"During a soccer game on Saturday funded by the U.S. Agency
for International Development and the interim Haitian government,
hooded police and individuals with machetes attacked people they
called "bandits," according to residents of the Port-au-Prince
slum of Martissant.
"Everybody gathered to watch the game, suddenly the police
surrounded the area and ordered everyone to lie on the ground,"
said Roland Roy, a community leader in Martissant.
"Then a group of people, armed with machetes, who came with
the police,
started identifying people one by one, saying here is a bandit,
here is
another one. They cut them with machetes and killed a number of
them," said Roy. He said up to 30 people died, some shot
by police.
Another community leader, Lionel Mondestin, said at least 20 people
were
killed on Saturday during the soccer game and on Sunday during
another police
operation. Many other residents gave similar accounts. (See, Reuters
August
25, 2005 article entitled "U.N.
to investigate Haiti slum lynchings")
And so, even though Chief of police Andresol said the policemen
involved in
the Lame Timanchet soccer match massacres would be punished, they
were not.
In fact, while thousands of innocent Haitians rot in jail, for
over two years
now, both the suspected wealthy Arab-kidnapper Handal and the
police officers
involved in the Lame Timanchet Soccer match massacre were released
under
Chief Andresol's watch.
Then, almost one year to the date after the Soccer Match massacre,
on July 7,
2006, the police/UN-cuddled Lame Timanchèt would strike
again. This time
slaughtering over 40 people in Gran Ravine. The numbers of those
killed is
still mounting as this essay is being written. And again, the
UN, who took
legal tutelage of the Haitian police some while ago, is still
expressing
consternation, but during little to issue a report of the investigation
it
promised LAST YEAR. Again, Mario Andresol is promising THIS YEAR
that those
involved in the July 7, 2006 massacres will be brought to justice
including
the corrupt police officers, his coup d’etat justice system
set free LAST
YEAR.
Yet, just four days ago, on July 17, 2006, AHP reported that according
to a
source close to Mario Andresol's police force:
"...police officers who were kicked out of the force due
to their
participation in these violent incidents (Lame Timanchèt
USAID/OIM Soccer
Match massacre) are said to be preparing to rejoin the Haitian
National
Police..." (See, Two
individuals from a well-known Haitian family are alleged
to have participated in the kidnapping of a young girl from a
wealthy family,
AHP, July 17, 2006
This same AHP article reports that kidnappers from wealthy families
are
linked to Lame Timanchèt. The article states that a certain
“young Mr.
Carbonneau,” …”from a well-known," - meaning
wealthy - "Haitian family," is
accused of being part of a kidnapping ring who kidnapped last
week “the
daughter of the owner of one of the largest supermarkets in the
capital."
The Jul 17, 2006 AHP article further explains that:
"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.
"....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."
(See,
Two
individuals from a well-known Haitian family are alleged to have
participated in the kidnapping of a young girl from a wealthy
family
by AHP, July 17, 2006
So, this is the current situation in Haiti.
While the UN soldiers and Mario Andresol are busy killing "bandits"
- broadly
meaning civilians from the poor neighborhoods - who oppose the
UN occupation
and continued social unrest ignited to a hellishly untenable point
by the
continued reign to the coup d'etat regime; by the indefinite detentions
of
the political prisoners and continued UN slaughters (See Clashes
between
gangs, troops in Haiti, 2 killed, Reuters, July 21, 2006 where
Frantz
Lerebours, a spokesman for the Haitian police. states "We
are not going to
surrender the country to bandits.") kidnappings, once relatively
rare in
Haiti, have become a daily occurrence under Group 184/Latortue's
corrupt
reign and continues with its sadistic Ninjas, wealthy children
of the elites,
such Carbonneau and Coles, who are carrying out much of the kidnappings
with
absolute impunity, along with drug traffickers, corrupt police
officers and
criminal ills exacerbated by the unconstitutional regime and their
rule of
the gun still in power. (See, "FBI says 2 U.S. missionaries
released by
kidnappers in Haiti, July 21, 2006 By STEVENSON JACOBS / Associated
Press and
"Two individuals from a well-known Haitian family are alleged
to have
participated in the kidnapping of a young girl from a wealthy
family," AHP,
July 17, 2006)
What good has the UN soldiers or
Mario Andresol done in Haiti to date?
Last year, after the Lame Timanchèt
massacres, a wealthy Arab businessman named, Stanley Handal was
arrested. He roams free in Haiti today, or perhaps he’s
gone off to Miami, Canada or France as these multi-passported
US/superpowers-cuddled Haitian terrorist oftentimes do. ( See,
Should Haiti Declare 'War Against Terrorism"
Against the United States? by Steve Pitteli,
4Report.com | July, 2006
and, Haiti
Terrorist Toto Constant
Arrested in Long Island by
Bill Weinberg, hopedance.org | July, 2006
Wherever he is, Stanley
Handal is free just like the Lame Timanchèt
assassins; just like the Guy Phillip assassins currently wreaking
havoc in
Gonaives and the Artibonite zone in Haiti; just like the police
officers
working with Lame Timanchet who were release from jail under Mario
Andresol’s
reign.
These folks are the International's favorite candidates for DDR
and police
jobs (DDR- Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration.) Meanwhile
the
innocent of are getting slaughtered by "official" UN/Haitian
police powers
that the people of Haiti want out of Haiti. (See, 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 )
; See,
Massacre of Haiti’s Innocents: What's Destabilizing Haiti?
No. Not
the "Demand for the Return of Aristide" as the Superpowers
who kidnapped
him out of Haiti would have us understand, but the Coup D'etat's
continued
oppressions, massacres and indefinite detentions.
See, HLLN's page on UN
firing down unarmed civilians and the Coup D'etat Turmoil |July,
2006
and;
July
18, 2006 Ezili Dantò 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 Dantò Witness Project from Kreyol original
into
English by Frantz Jerome, Ezili Dantò Witness Project, July 19,
2006
There is little doubt that while the UN and coup d’etat
Haitian police
authorities are telling one and all, that they are militarizing
Haiti and
turning it into a virtual penal colony in order to root out kidnapping,
corruptions, assassins and drug traffickers in the poor neighborhoods,
the
reality is they are the ones perpetrating the slaughters, insecurities
and
yes, cuddling the kidnappers, drugdealers and arms dealers linked
to wealthy
families who hire folks like Lame Timanchèt, (Ti Wil/Guy
Phillip’s) Fron
Rezistans and other such bloody assassins who roam a UN-“protected”-Haiti
freely.
Last year, according to reports, the suspected wealthy kidnapper
Stanley
Handal, is said to have been doing business with the police. Allegedly
Stanley Handal was apprehended as part of an investigation in
the
disappearance of a (31 years old) UNIBANK employee, Nathael Aleus
Genelus,
which occurred August 2, 2005 subsequent to Handal's questioning
at the
police precinct of Delma 62. "The police inspector responsible
for this
precinct, James Bourdeau, is being actively sought for his role
in Mr.
Genelus’ assumed kidnapping."
"According to police sources, the investigation in the disappearance
of
UNIBANK’s employee allowed police to uncover the existence
of a huge and
powerful network of crooks, linked with drug money laundering,
kidnappings,
and many other shady activities. The businessman Stanley Handal
and the bank
employee Genelus were apparently part of this network. Sources
contacted by
radio Kiskeya pointed out that it took the deployment of an important
police
contingent in order to apprehend Stanley Handal. The UN civilian
police
(CIVPOL) were part of the operations as well." (See, An Important
Businessman
Was Arrested in Relation to Kidnapping Cases recorded in Port-au-Prince,
August 23, 2005, Radio Kiskeya)
Thus, it is this same failed UN/Haitian police force who arrested
Stanley
Handal, the Lame Timanchèt policemen, who then also let
them go free.
Last year, after the first Lame Timanchèt massacre, a wealthy
Arab
businessman Stanley Handal was arrested. This year, after the
July 7, 2006
Lame Timanchèt massacres, two wealthy offsprings of Haiti’s
wealthy families
are under arrest. Is this simply a macabre coincidence. Or, is
there a
connection between the two wealthy kidnappers just arrested who
are said to
be working with Lame Timanchèt, and the arrest last year
of Stanley Handal,
who was said to be “doing business with the Haitian police”
and who was
similarly arrested, last year shortly after the August, 2005 Timanchèt
massacre?
Will the UN and Mario Andresol, now again, after this new Gran
Ravin massacres of
July 7, 2006, be offering these brutal assassins and kidnappers
release from prison
cards, police jobs, “in charge of security jobs” and/or
UN DDRs?
Èzili Dantò
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
July 21, 2006
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In notoriously troubled
Haiti, 15 officers to face the bar of justice for brutal murders
By The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 11, 2005 (AP) -- Fifteen police officers
will be
prosecuted in an attack that killed at least six civilians during
a soccer
match in Haiti's capital, the national police chief said.
The officers were detained following a nearly two-month investigation
into
the August 20 attack in Martissant, a poor neighborhood of tin-roof
shacks in
southwestern Port-au-Prince, police chief Mario Andresol told
reporters
Monday.
State prosecutors will decide what charges the officers will face,
Andresol
said. However, many criminal suspects wait months or years before
being
charged because of delays within Haiti's corrupt and inefficient
justice
system.
Witnesses claimed police were seeking gang members aligned with
ousted
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide when they stormed a soccer stadium
during a
match and ordered the crowd of 5,000 to lie on the ground. Other
police and
civilians surrounded the stadium, shooting or hacking people with
machetes as
they tried to flee, the witnesses said.
Andresol said an investigation found that six civilians were killed,
although
others have put the death toll at 10. Andresol said it was possible
other
bodies never reached the morgue and therefore weren't counted.
Nearly three dozen police officers were investigated in the attack,
said
Andersol, who took command in July with the mammoth task of cleaning
up
Haiti's ill-equipped, corruption-riddled force of 6,000 officers.
"There is a large corruption problem," said Andresol,
who just returned from
touring the country's police units. "About a quarter of the
force is involved
in corruption, kidnappings or even arms trafficking."
Pierre Esperance, a local human rights activist, praised the move
to
prosecute the 15 officers as a turning point for Haiti's police
force, which
rarely investigates officers for rights abuses.
Human rights groups have long accused the police force of killing
Aristide
supporters under the pretext of restoring order to the violent
capital.
"I believe this is the first time the police have so thoroughly
investigated
its own abuses," Esperance said.(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 Èzili Dantò, Haitian Perspectives, July 21, 2006.)
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The organizers
of a peaceful march are pleased that more than 30,000 people demonstrated
to demand the return of the political exiles and better living
conditions in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, July 17, 2006 (AHP); Several tens of thousands
of Fanmi Lavalas supporters and sympathizers demonstrated last
Saturday in the streets of Port-au-Prince calling for the return
from exile of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, an end
to the persecution of residents of the populist districts and
the reintegration of workers who were illegally fired from the
civil service.
Forced to give up power on February 29, 2004, after armed bands
carried out lethal violence in several parts of the country, Jean-
Bertrand Aristide expressed on the day after the election of President
Préval in February 2006 his desire to return to Haiti to
devote himself to educational activities.
The new chief of state had at that time reaffirmed that the Haitian
Constitution does not permit forced exile and that no Haitian
citizen needs a visa to return to his own country.
The march on July 15 coincided with the 53rd birthday of Mr. Aristide
and was organized at the initiative of the national coordination
of the reflection unit of Fanmi Lavalas.
The demonstration set forth from outside the residence of President
Aristide in Tabarre, proceeded along the Boulevard of October
15, continued along National Road #1, passed through the shantytown
of Cité Soleil and then crossed Delmas 2 into the Bel-Air
district.
The crowd which numbered more than 30,000, succeeded in bypassing
the police deployment to reach the vicinity of the National Palace,
which was guarded by UN blue helmets, with kept their fingers
on the triggers of their weapons.
All along the demonstration route, the marchers chanted slogans
in favor of Aristide as they called for better living conditions
after suffering through two years in hell, they said.
"We want to see the political prisoners released and an end
to the so-called judicial harassment of residents of the populist
neighborhoods", they shouted, demanding the arrest of those
behind the various massacres committed under the interim government.
The demonstrators made a point of saying that they are not opposed
to President Préval but they insist on reminding him of
the promises he made to them during the presidential campaign
and that they voted for a change and not for the status quo.
The marchers dispersed after they had assembled in front of the
National Palace, but not before they had shouted their frustration
and that they were fed up.
They also denounced the provocations of MINUSTAH personnel whom
they accused of wishing to see the march deteriorate. Instead
it took place without confrontations and without violence.
"We would like to regain our dignity and we want the blue
helmets to leave Haiti", shouted several of the marchers.
The organizers and participants said they were satisfied with
the demonstration because, they said, their objective was to make
their voices heard and to say where the shoe is pinching them.
Several leaders of grassroots Fanmi Lavalas organizations who
took part in the march said they hope that "the government
for which they have sacrificed themselves will rapidly focus on
their demands".
AHP July 17, 2006 11:35 AM
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