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24949: Saint-Vil (Announce) Canada-funded "Justice" Leaves Legitimate P.M. Near Dead (fwd)
From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>
Letter to Canadian prime Minister Paul Martin:
Mr. Prime Minister,
Please find below an account by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network of
the kind of "justice" that the Canadian government is sponsoring in Haiti,
following the February 2004 coup against the constitutional government then
led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Prime Minister Yvon Neptune
(currently near death).
Prime Minister Martin, do you still stand by your incredible December 2004
claim that "there are no political prisoners in Haiti"? Will you continue to
stand as Pontius Pilate, washing your hands and pretending to see or hear no
evil in occupied Haiti? Yet, the record shows that all along you were kept
abreast of the criminal actions of the puppet regime your administration,
among others, forced upon the Haitian people following the racist coup of
2004?
Sir, it is not too late to do at least one right thing on this disastrous
foreign policy adventure where your imagined "responsibility to protect" has
obviously turned into an unbearable nightmare for the people of Haiti.
I do not know whether you will continue to wash your hands of all
responsibility (self-claimed or other) or whether you will finally stand up
as a true leader, conscious of his very real "obligation to respect human
life and dignity", to help set the captives free in Haiti. Whatever your
chosen path Mr. Prime Minister, let it be known that in the crowd of
Canadians, some deathened by your loud silence and disgusted by the
strategic inaction thus far, this one son of Haiti and citizen of Canada was
not among those cheering on the local executioners and their foreign
sponsors "crucify Prime Minister Neptune!". Rather, we will continue to
call on all those associated with this imposed dictatorship to:
FREE NEPTUNE! FREE HAITI ! FREE ALL PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IN OCCUPIED
HAITI!
Jean Saint-Vil
Gatineau, Canada
"In this generation, we will have to repent not merely for the awful words
and actions of the bad people but also for the appalling silence of the good
people" Dr. Martin Luther King (true humanitarian and real leader!).
----Original Message Follows----
From: erzilidanto@yahoo.com
Reply-To: erzilidanto@yahoo.com
To: ezilidanto@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [ezilidanto] If Neptune is flown into exile, he wants the world to
know, it was a kidnapping
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
Yvon Neptune reportedly will be forced into exile
by Marguerite Laurent, May 1, 2005
If Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is flown out of Haiti, without his liberation
orders and unconditional released having been signed by a Haitian judge, he
wants the world to know he did not leave Haiti willingly - that he was
forced into exile. It was simply another kidnapping.
According to an AP article, written by Ariana Cubillos, dated today May 1,
2005, a Western diplomat who spoke on conditions of anonymity reported that
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune is flying into exile. Meanwhile, Radio Kiskeya
reported that Neptune already had been flown out late Saturday after doctors
said a hunger strike had left him near death.”
The same AP article reports “An official at Port-au-Prince's international
airport said they were on standby for the event but had not yet received
confirmation from officials in Haiti's interim government, who could not be
reached for comment.”
Yvon Neptune is too weak to speaka for himself right now. He is critically
ill from the hunger strike resume on April 17 and literally cannot speak.
His family fears his death is imminent.
We, at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership spoke to Yvon Neptune’s family and
friends in Haiti just minutes ago to get confirmation of this report of
"going into exitle" and one and all maintain that 1) Yvon Neptune
is still in prison in Haiti 2) He has not been told anything about going
into immediate exile for humanitarian purposes and 3) He would never agree
to do so. Thus, if Neptune is flown out of Haiti, he would not be doing so
willingly. Again, Mr. Neptune’s family stresses that Yvon Neptune would
never go into exile; that he has repeatedly maintained this position: That
he is an innocent man, wrongfully accused of a massacre that the UN, the
international press and reputable human rights organization say did not
happen. Additionally, this information we can personally corroborate because
Prime Minister Neptune, told Marguerite Laurent, in early March, 2005, when
we visited him at the prison, that he only wishes to live as a free and
innocent man in Haiti and for the interim government to stop persecuting him
and guarantee his safety. Yvon Neptune's position explained to Congresswoman
Waters and us at HLLN, when we visited him on March 7, 2005 has not changed.
He does not wish to go to exile, or to leave Haiti as a marked criminal. He
has spent ten (10) months in the miserable, horrific Latortue jail in Haiti
without being charged or seeing a judge with his lawyer present.
Again, The AP report above cited is wrong. Yvon Neptune is still in Haiti.
He is critically ill because of the hunger strike and his family fear he
will not live much longer.
However, they stress that the only thing that would legitimately put Neptune
out of prison is a liberation order. That he will not leave prison unless a
judge has signed his liberation order and acknowledged his innocence of all
crimes. If, Neptune is flown to the Dominican Republic, or anywhere else, as
reported by AP, for any purposes whatsoever, and a liberation order
acknowledging his wrongful incarceration has not been signed, then Prime
Minister Neptune, through his family, wants the world to know, he was forced
to leave, that he was kidnapped out of Haiti against his will and sent to
exile in the same fashion as President Aristide; in the same fashion, as
when the authorities, last Friday on April 22, 2005, had forced him, without
his lawyer, to go to St. Marc where even the judge did not know he was
coming and reportedly refused to see him. (See below, Green Left Weekly
article by Alison Dellit - "Former PM on hunger stike")
If Neptune is flown out of Haiti today or at any other time without a
complete exoneration already signed, then he wants the world to know he was
forced to leave Haiti by the UN/US/Canada/France and their
Latortue-supported death regime against his will. (See also Letter From Yvon
Neptune from Jail dated April 20, 2005)
"The hunger strike I began on February 20 was aimed at forcing the
government to set me free and to stop being the cause of my
insecurity.
Because of a promise the government had made that it was going to
liberate me, I agreed to put an end to my hunger strike and to go to
the Argentine Hospital under the jurisdiction of the MINUSTAH/United
Nations."
Right now, in the room of Yvon Neptune, we have been told a group of
Argentanian doctors have entered Neptune rooms and we are being told, via
telephone, that they want to give him a "serum" to force him out
of the prison. He is screaming, in only the whisper that he is capable of
uttering: NO, NO, NO. I've given no one authorization to sent me into exile.
I will die with my dignity or be set free from this prison without
conditions."
Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
May 1, 2005
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See also: Canada's growing role in Haitian affairs by Anthony Fenton
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/AF/3_22_5.html
"NCHR received $100,000 for the specific purpose of juridical, medical,
psychological, and logistical assistance for the "victims" of the alleged La
Scierie massacre. On March 9, 2005, HaVti-ProgrPs put NCHR into proper
context in this respect: "The illegal government has charged both [former
Prime Minister] Neptune and [former Interior Minister] Privert with
involvement in a supposed 'massacre' on February 11, 2004 in St. Marc, an
event which reporters and human rights groups almost universally agree never
happened. Only the pro-coup U.S. government-backed National Coalition of
Haitian Rights (NCHR) charges that some 50 people were slaughtered by
pro-Lavalas partisans. Pierre Espérance, the NCHR's Haiti bureau chief, says
that the remains of the supposed victims were 'eaten by dogs' to explain the
absence of any forensic evidence" (see HaVti ProgrPs, Vol. 22, No. 52,
3/9/2005).
At this point it is doubtful that many Canadian taxpayers are aware that
they are funding such a partisan and thereby illegitimate "human rights"
organization such as NCHR".
For more Background Information go to:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/neptune.html
Please write letters denouncing this other kidnapping before it is COMPLETED
and demand the immediate and unconditional release from prison of Prime
Minister Yvon Neptune and all the political prisoners in Haiti.
Sign the petition demanding release of Yvon Neptune at:
http://www.haitiechange.org/avis.htm
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