Remembering
July 6, 2005 and the UN massacre of innocent
civilians from Site Soley: Demand UN soldiers stop killing
innocent Haitian civilians and brutalizing the Haitian public,
Demand Justice for the UN victims from Site Soley,
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, Haitian Perspectives,
June 28, 2006
(Kreyol:
HLLN
Apèl pou
Aksyon
)
HLLN
Action Alert: Demand UN soldiers stop killing
innocent Haitian civilians and brutalizing the Haitian public.
End
the UN occupation and repression of Haiti.
Remember the July 6, 2005 deadly pre-dawn UN massacre of over
50 innocent Site Soley civilians, many killed while in their
own beds asleep, including a mother in bed with two of her
children - 22 year-old Sonia Romelus was murdered by the same
UN bullet that passed through the body of her 1 year-old infant
son Nelson she was holding. Next to them was
her four year-old son Stanley Romelus who
was killed by a single shot to the
head.
(see http://www.margueritelaurent.com
/law/massupdates1.html, scroll down
to July 6, 2005 )
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Last year at 3 am in Haiti, 300 U.N. troops led by a Jordanian
contingent surrounded
Site Soley to hunt down community leader Dred Wilme
which the UN considered a "bandit" though it never
provided any proof of his
illegal activities. Eyewitnesses reported the UN troops indiscriminately
fired into
their homes and used helicopters, tanks, machine guns and
tear gas in the operation.
The UN has admitted that its troops killed at least five people.
However, published
estimates indicate that upwards of 50 may have been killed
and an indeterminate
number wounded when the 300 heavily armed UN troops took part
in the brutal
assault on the neighborhood known for its resistance to the
coup d'etat and
support and demand for the return of President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
According to Doctors Without Border's on July 6th, starting
at approximately 11 AM, the hospital received a total of 26
wounded people from Site Soley who were transported to the
facility by the Red Cross. Of these 26, 20 were women and
children and 6 were men. Half of the total number were seriously
wounded by abdominal gun shot wounds and were routed into
major surgery. One pregnant woman lost her baby. Other victims
seem to be in recovery, according to the hospital staff. Site
Soley victims reported UN military forces had wounded them
during the operation and many spoke of their homes being shot
through by helicopter fire or raised to the ground by UN tanks.
Many of the wounded, especially Haitian men, who were wounded
by UN bullets, did not go to the hospital because of the coup
d'etat police's routine practice of either "disappearing"
or imprisoning wounded Haitian men from Site Soley and the
other heavily populated areas.
This Thursday, July 6, 2006, join Ezili's Haitian Lawyers
Leadership Network (HLLN), Kole Zepol Pou Sove Ti Moun from
Site Soley, Selul De Baz Fanmi Lavalas Depatman Lwes, Vwa
Zanset from Canada, Fanmi Lavalas of New York and the Tri-State
area, Haiti Action Committee, Black World United and many
others who will gather together with an international coalition
of human rights workers abroad and in collaboration with other
grassroots organizations in Haiti, representing the people
of Site Soley, Pele, Bel Air, Martissant, Solino, Milot, Cap
Haitien and throughout all of Haiti, to demand that the UN
account for their crimes against the people of Haiti; to demand
justice for those shot dead by the UN, including Dred Wilme,
Sonia Romelus, her infant sons Nelson and Stanley and all
the victims of the UN troops since their landing in Haiti.
DEMAND A STOP TO THE UN OCCUPATION AND REPRESSION - Haiti
needs engineers, agronomists, technicians to build infrastructures,
community policing to service the people, tractors not armored
tanks, not repressive armies, military operations, war guns
or heavy weaponry. Demand Justice for the July 6, 2005 U.N.
victims from Site Soley and all the victims of the 2004 coup
d'etat. For additional details, go to:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork
/protect.html
Ezili Dantò, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
June 28, 2006
Endorsed by Lakou Nouyòk, Komite Kont
Jenosid An Ayiti, Project 2000 International, Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela
Project, Radio Ayiti in Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay View National
Black Newspaper, Democracy for Haiti; Eric Walton - GPC (Green
Party of Canada) Foreign Affairs Critic; Alba Mota, MSW/MPA candidate
at Columbia University; Prof. Sir Vincent Abukuse Mbirika, Knights
of Africa, Kenya; Evel Fanfan AUMOHD;Amalia
Vidas;Haiti Solidarity Network of
the Northeast;Vince
Gallagher, Southwest New Jersey Chapter, Pax Christi,
Peace and Justice Coordinator; The
Ezili Danto Witness Project and the FreeHaitiMovement.
Note:
Further endorsements are welcomed. Send
e-mail to Erzilidanto@yahoo.com to endorse this call to action.
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KREYOL
VERSION:
HLLN ACTION ALERT
HLLN
Apèl pou Aksyon:
Mande
pou solda Nasyonzini yo sispann touye inosan nan popilasyon sivil
la e sispann ak lòt zak maspinay yo ap fè sou pèp
Ayisyen. Mande
Pou Okipasyon ak Represyon Nasyonzini an Sispann
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| Photo:AUMOHD
- Press conf. with over 200 Site Soley victims, May 3, 2006 |
Sonje
masak Nasyonzini te fè nan lavanjou 6 Jiyè 2005
la, kote plis pase 50 inosan Site Solèy pèdi lavi
yo, pi fò ladan yo pandan yo te nan kabann yo ap dòmi,
ikonpri yon manman pitit ak de pitit li – yon bal Nasyonzini
te touye Sonia Romelus, 22 zan daj, apre menm bal sa a te transpèse
kò bebe yon lane, Nelson, ki te nan bra l. Bò kote
yo yon lòt pitit 4 an daj, Stanley Romelus te mouri apre
l resevwa yon bal Nasyonzini nan tèt li. (Ale
wè Jiye 6, 2005 sou website HLLN, lan: http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law
/massupdates1.html,
e wè lis viktim yo koudeta a.
)
*
Ane pase a 3 zè nan maten ann Ayiti, 300 solda Nasyonzini
ki te gen alatèt yo twoup Jòdanyen yo, te antoure
Site Solèy pou fini ak lidè kominotè Drèd
Wilme, Nasyonzini te konsidere kòm bandi malgre yo pa janm
bay okenn prèv zak ilegal kont li. Temwen rapòte
twoup Nasyonzini yo tire alagouj nan kay moun nan zòn la.
Yo sèvi ak elikoptè, tank, mitrayèt, gaz
lakrimojèn pandan operasyon an. Nasyonzini admèt
twoup li yo touye omwen senk moun. Anmenmtan, rapò ki pibliye
mete chif la depase senkant moun mouri ak yon pakèt blese,
lò 300 solda Nasyonzini yo te fè zak maspinay brital
sou katye tout moun te konnen ki tap reziste koudeta a, mande
retou Prezidan Aristide.
Dapre deklarasyon Medsen San Fontyè, jou ki te 6 Jiyè
a, depi 11 nan maten, lopital la resevwa 26 blese nan men lakwarouj
soti Site Solèy. Sou 26 lan, 20 nan yo se te fanm ak timoun,
pandan 6 se te gason. Mwatye ladan yo te resevwa gwo katouch zam
fannfwa nan vant e te blije fè operasyon. Gen yon fanm
ansent ki te pèdi pitit li a. Lòt victim yo te sanble
yo pat an danje, dapre sa anplwaye lopital yo te di. Abitan Site
Solèy ki te victim yo rapòte fòs militè
Nasyonzini yo te blese yo pandan operasyon militè an e
anpil ladan yo te di elikoptè te tire nan do kay yo ansanm
ak tank Nasyonzini kite sakaje kay yo. Anpil ladan yo ki te blese,
spesyalman gason yo, pat al lopital, paske lapolis koudeta a gen
abitid al pran pòv Site Solèy ak lòt katye
popilè ki blese lopital pou fè yo disparèt
oubyen mennen yo nan prizon.
Jedi 6 Jiyè 2006, Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
(HLLN), Kole Zepol Pou Sove Ti Moun, Selul
De Baz Fanmi Lavalas Depatman Lwes, Vwa
Zansèt de Canada, Linyon
Mondyal Pèp Nwa,
Veye Yo, Fanmi Lavalas Nouyòk-Noujezi- Konektiket, Haiti
Action Committee, ak yon bann lòt òganizasyon, koalisyon
entènasyonal dwa moun ak òganizasyon baz ann Ayiti
kap reprezante moun Site Solèy, Pele, Bèlè,
Matisan, Solino, Milot, Kap Ayisyen, toupato ann Ayiti pou mande
pou Nasyonzini vin rann kont sou krim yo komèt kont pèp
Ayisyen an; mande jistis pou tout sila yo solda Nasyonzini touye,
ikonpri Drèd Wilme, Sonia Romelus, piti li a ki te gen
1 nan an, Nelson, pitit li a ki te gen 4 an, Stanley ak tout lòt
viktim solda Nasyonzini yo depi lò yo ateri nan peyi a.
MANDE POU OKIPASYON AK REPRESYON NASYONZINI AN SISPANN - Ayiti
beswen
enjenyè, agwonòm, teknisyen k ap monte chapant minimòm
pou devlopman vil
modèn, polis kominotè pou sevi pèp la. Nou
beswen traktè pa chadegè. Nou pa beswen lame pou
fè represyon, solda etranje sa yo k ap touye pèp
la, operasyon militè, cha blende, tank, mitrayèt
oubyen oken lòt zam fanfwa. Mande jistis pou sila yo ki
te viktim operasyon militè Nasyonzini jou ki te 6 Jiyè
2005 la, nan Site Solèy e pou tout lòt viktim Koudeta
2004 la. Pou plis enfòmasyon, al nan Jiye 6, 2005 sou website
HLLN e wè list viktim yo nan:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/protect.html
Marguerite "Ezili Danto"
Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
June 28, 2006
Endorsed by Lakou Nouyòk, Komite Kont
Jenosid An Ayiti, Project 2000 International, Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela
Project, Radio Ayiti in Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay View National
Black Newspaper, Democracy for Haiti, Eric Walton - GPC (Green
Party of Canada) Foreign Affairs Critic; Alba Mota, MSW/MPA candidate
at Columbia University; Prof. Sir Vincent Abukuse Mbirika, Knights
of Africa, Kenya; Evel Fanfan AUMOHD, Amalia
Vidas, Haiti Solidarity Network of
the Northeast; Vince Gallagher,
Southwest New Jersey Chapter, Pax Christi, Peace and Justice Coordinator;
The Ezili Danto Witness Project; and the
FreeHaitiMovement.
Nòt:
ou met voye
yon e-mail bay Erzilidanto@yahoo.com si ou vle ajoute non ou,
oubyen non òganizasyon ou pou sipòte apèl
HLLN sa a pou aksyon Jiye 6, 2006.
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Expose the Lies of the International Community
about Haiti, its people and resources
Expose how under the cover of "Aristide-is-corrupt-refrain,"
with this weapon
of mass distraction and Bush “regime change to bring Haiti
justice and democracy,"
the powerful countries of France, Canada and US, with UN soldiers
as their corporate army, have turned Haiti into a penal colony
for the Haitians masses and are tying Haiti to endless IMF/World
Bank debts while looting and plundering Haitian assets and resources.
Demand
the International coup d'etat supporing countries and enforcers,
not Rene Preval, set the political prisoners free,end the UN occupation,
return Haitian assets to the people of Haiti by Marguerite Laurent,
June 26, 2006, Haitian Perspectives
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html
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KREYOL: HLLN
Apèl pou
Aksyon
- Mande pou solda Nasyonzini yo sispann
touye inosan nan popilasyon sivil la e sispann ak lòt zak
maspinay yo ap
fè sou pèp Ayisyen. Mande Pou Okipasyon ak Represyon
Nasyonzini an
Sispann
ENGLISH: HLLN
Action Alert -Demand
UN soldiers stop killing innocent
Haitian civilians and brutalizing the Haitian public. End the
UN occupation and repression of Haiti.
On July 6, 2006 from 3-7pm, New York Haitian activists will sponsor
a
picket line in front of the UN at the Ralph Bunch Park on First
Avenue,
between 42nd and 43rd to protest UN killings of civilians in Haiti
and
to demand justice for the victims of last year's UN massacres
on July
6, 2005, justice for all the innocent Haitian victims of UN bullets
in
Haiti since the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat and an end to the UN
repression and occupation of Haiti.
For other community activities in New York, contact, Komite Kont
Jenosid An Ayiti at kamoken64@yahoo.com or janpetro@aol.com
For activities in Canada with Vwa Zanset and L'union Mondial Du
Peuple
Noir, contact, Magalie X Djehouty-Thot, Vwa Zanset Association
at
magalie@total.net
For coverage in Miami, contact Lavarice Gaudin of Veye Yo at 786
285
3209
For coverage in California, contact Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti
Action Committee at pierre@haitiaction.org
For coverage in Washington D.C, contact Eugenia Charles
(eugenia@fondasyonmapou.org) and Jean Yves Point-du-Jour
(yves@erols.com)
For coverage in Phillidelphia, contact Picard Losier, Esq., Radio
Ayiti
& Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network at 215 790 1663
For activities in Haiti, contact HLLN at erzilidanto@yahoo.com
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006
13:57:53 -0400
From: Joel Rosenblum
cc : erzilidanto@yahoo.com
Subject: message faxed to Kofi Annan
Mr. Secretary General, I am a citizen of the United States, and
I am
extremely concerned over the U.N.'s military abuses and murders
of
Haitian citizens in Cite Soleil. I want to know what the current
status is of
U.N. occupation of Haiti, whether you have a commission investigating
the matter. The most famous event (known to me) took place last
year,
with the murder of close to 50 residents of Cite Soleil in an
effort to
find a supposed "terrorist" whom the community supported
(Emmanuel
"Dread" Wilme).
If you have done an investigation, what have the results been?
Will the
U.N. give reparations to the families affected, who have lost
loved
ones at the hands of U.N. soldiers? And will there be a public
apology?
And what will be done to prevent future actions?
Please contact me at **** or you can call me at _ (voice).
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From: Amalia Vidas
To: erzilidanto@yahoo.com
CC: Fagartt@un.org
Subject: call to action
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:00:37 -0700
Dear Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
and Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network:
I endorse your calls to action
to set the political prisoners free,
end the UN occupation and repression,
return stolen Haitian assets,
and hold accountable those
who have committed grave injustices against
the people of Haiti,
and their democratically elected leaders,
including the honorable Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Amalia Vidas
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Ezili Danto's note: Thank you Mr. Joel Rosenbum, Amalia
Vidas and all those who have written on this matter to the media,
UN and others in reference to UN
killings of civilians in Site Soley and throughout Haiti. Thanks
also to all
those who have endorsed the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Networks'
call
for U.N., Canadian/U.S/French accountability for the international
fiasco and disgrace they have brought to Haiti since Feb. 29,
2004 to the
present.
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Expose the Lies of the International Community about Haiti, its
people and resources
Demand
the International coup d'etat supporing countries and enforcers,
not Rene Preval, set the political prisoners free, end the UN
occupation, return Haitian assets to the people of Haiti by Marguerite
Laurent, June 26, 2006,
Haitian Perspectives
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HLLN
Recommended Links to honor Dred Wilmè on July 6, 2007,
Haitian
Perspectives, June 6, 2007 (July
6, 2007 sponsored by HLLN's
FreeHaitiMovement
- Dessaline
is Rising Worldwide)
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Danto Spoken Word Dance Theater
The
Premier Performance, Poetry, West African and Haitian Dance Company
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