a1249: Fwd: Piatre Massacre - Twelve years on (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: kevin pina <kpinbox@hotmail.com>

>From: Tttnhm@aol.com
>To: Tttnhm@aol.com
>Subject: Piatre Massacre - Twelve years on
>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:40:54 EST
>
>The Piatre Massacre: the 30th September Fondation denounces the judicial
>system's lethargy
>
>Port-au-Prince, 12 March 2002 -(AHP)- Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, the
>coordinator of the 30th September Foundation on Tuesday denounced the slow
>pace of Haitian justice concerning the case of the Piatre massacre,
>perpetrated on 12 March 1990 in the second communal section of Saint-Marc.
>
>In an interview with the Haitian Press Agency on the occasion of the 12th
>anniversary of the massacre, Pierre Antoine also denounced the complicity
>of
>certain parts of the judicial system which, he says, are blocking progress
>on
>this case.
>
>Pierre Antoine deplored the fact that the prime suspect in this affair,
>Olivier Nadal, has still not yet been arrested.
>
>"It is time that the Haitian judicial system demands the arrest and
>extradition to Haiti of Olivier Nadal, who has taken refuge in the USA for
>several years, so that he can be judged according to the law, " charged
>Pierre Antoine.
>
>He is asking the Justice Minister to involve himself more in the case by
>putting the necessary means at the disposal of the state prosecutor's
>office
>in Saint-Marc so that the investigation can move on. Pierre Antoine, who
>hopes very much that the case will be heard during the course of 2002,
>called
>on the peasant victims to provide testimonies or file complaints against
>those who ordered and carried out the massacre.
>
>To commemorate this sad anniversary, the 30 September Fondation and the Tet
>Kole Ti Peyizan organisation held a rally in front of the court in
>Montrouis
>as well as a peaceful demonstration through the streets of the village to
>call for justice and compensation for the victims of the massacre.
>According
>to the peasant organisations and human rights groups, the Piatre massacre
>claimed at least 11 lives, and left more than 340 homes destroyed, 30
>hectares of farm land damaged, and several hundred farm animals lost.
>
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>translated from French by Charles Arthur for the Haiti Support Group
>
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