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Topic 326       HAITI BULLETIN #159
smalagodi       reg.carib        7:41 pm  Nov 13, 1992

 
This Bulletin is produced clandestinely in Port-au-Prince 
Haiti 

Bulletin #159   November 9, 1992

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Port-au-Prince

Tension at the Alexandre Petion Lycee. Some tension was 
observed on Monday November 9 at the Alexandre Petion 
High School where graffiti hostile to Mr. Bazin and favorable to 
President Aristide were noticed on the walls of the school. The 
students are protesting the presence of a new censor and the 
repeated absence of teachers. Armed soldiers were seen in 
the courtyard of the  school in the company of the new 
director, Clerison Mozart. (Tropic FM, November 9, 1992)

Delmas. During the night of November 5 to 6, 1992, a 
presumed thief, about 30 years old, was killed in Delmas 48. 
The body remained exposed for a long time in the morning.

Provinces

Central Plateau: Arrest of a mayor elect. Mr. Rodrique 
Flaman, third member of the communal administration of 
Lascahobas, was arrested by soldiers on November 1st. 
Military authorities termed Mr. Flaman a "Lavalas mayor" and 
imprisoned him in the Lascahobas barracks. (Tropic FM, 
November 9, 1992)

POSITION STATEMENTS

Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (a small farmers' self help 
organization) denounces what it terms 'hypocrisy of the 
international community regarding the Haitian crisis." In a letter 
dated October 26, addressed to leadership of the OAS and the 
UN, the association made note of various human rights 
violations in the North-West since the September 30, 1991 
coup d'etat. This is a public plan for extermination," states Tet 
Kole, noting that these acts have particularly affected 
organized farmers' movements. The farmers' association takes 
exception to the embargo, which it terms a farce whose only 
effect is impoverishment of the poor and enrichment of a 
privileged few. (Tropic FM. November 6, 1992)

International Conference Against Repression. The 
International Conference against repression and in support of 
the Haitian people, which opened on November 6 at the 
Holiday Inn Hotel, will end on November 9 with publication of 
the final resolution. This resolution will be the result of 
workshops held on Saturday by the participants. About 150 
people from the United States, Martinique and Guadeloupe 
participated in this conference on repression. (Tropic FM, 
November 9, 1992)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Statement of Roland Dumas. History "will give us justice, as 
to our friends in Latin America, so that right may finally prevail 
in Haiti. What is a people without civil liberties? What is a free 
people without democracy?" These are comments of the 
French Foreign Affairs Minister, Roland Dumas, who spoke 
during a budget debate in the National Assembly in Paris on 
November 3rd election day in the United States. (Le 
Nouvelliste, November 5, 1992)

REFUGEES

Refugees In the Mexican Embassy. A group of Haitians 
who took refuge from political persecution in the Mexican 
Embassy have been blocked for about ten months, despite the 
fact that officials of the Mexican Embassy In Haiti granted 
them asylum. According to information received by Radio 
Tropic, the records of these asylum seekers have been held in 
the Haitian Foreign Affairs Ministry despite that fact that the 
Justice Minister states that he has no charge against any of 
them.

Increase of boat people: New York Times editorial. More 
than 700  Haitians were intercepted In one week by the 
American Coast Guard. According to the New York Times, this 
sharp increase must be connected with the election of the new 
president, Bill Clinton, who criticized the Bush Administration's 
measures against Haitian refugees touring his campaign. 
(Metropole, November 9, 1992)

POLITICAL SCENE

Jean-Bertrand Aristide congratulates Bill Clinton on his 
success in the American presidential elections. The Haitian 
constitutional president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide congratulated 
President Bill Clinton and his vice-president Al Gore for having 
been chosen by the American people to lead the United States 
for the next four years (Voice of America, Nov. 5). President 
Aristide hopes that, under Mr. Clinton's government, a new 
system of international relations will be established to achieve 
liberty, justice and dignity for every citizen of the Earth. 
President Aristide recalled Bill Clinton's commitment to help 
the return of democracy to Haiti, as well as better treatment of 
refugees seeking asylum In the United States by American 
immigration.

DE FACTO GOVERNMENT

Council of Ministers: Police-Army separation. The de 
facto government's Council of Ministers met on Wednesday 
November 4, 1992, at the National Palace with Marc Bazin 
presiding. Creation of a police force and professionalization of 
the Armed Forces of Haiti were deliberated.

The Interior Minister informed the Council that he had received 
a letter from the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of 
Haiti. This letter confirmed the willingness of the Armed Forces 
of Haiti to collaborate with implementation of Article 269-1 of 
the Constitution, relating to creation of a Police Force.

In the name of the government, the prime minister thanked the 
Commander in Chief for the intention thus manifested to 
cooperate fully in implementation of the process. (Le 
Nouvelliste, November 6, 1992)

Departmental Assemblies In place In several provincial 
towns. In Jacmel, members of the "departmental assembly" 
(Bazin government version) of the South-East were sworn in 
on November 1st. They are entrusted with receiving 
registration of candidacy of future members of the Permanent 
Electoral Council (CEP). Members of assemblies for the 
communal sections of Petit-Goave and Grand-Goave were 
sworn in on October 26th.

Also sworn in were: Mr. Francois Exceus, vice-delegate from 
Port-de-Paix, Marie Dominique Beauzile, Martha Americain, 
vice-delegate from Cayes, Mr. Francis Marie Georges, 
delegate from the North, and three vice-delegates, Jacques 
Monpremier, Milton Victor and Jean-Claude Pierre, Mr. Jean 
Wilner Guerrier, vice-delegate from Grand 'Anse. (Le 
Nouvelliste, November 5, 1992)

Plan to create a Coordination Commission for the 
public/private sectors. The head of the de facto government 
held another "work session" with representatives of the private 
sector at the National Palace on November 7th. This 
"Coordination Commission" has the aim of "promoting better 
relations between the two sectors and facilitating participation 
of the private sector in conception and implementation of a 
national economic development plan."

PARLIAMENT

Reactions In Parliament after the detention of Senator 
Bauduy. The FNCD parliamentary bloc protested the arrest of 
Senator Guy Bauduy in Grand 'Anse last Sunday. He was 
arrested at the private home of deputy Maxo Lamarre along 
with a group of citizens by the commander of the military sub-
district of that town. The FNCD parliamentary bloc considered 
that action to be in contempt and violation of all constitutional 
guarantees relating to personal freedom, to rights of citizens 
and parliamentary immunity guaranteed by Articles 114 and 
115.

The Alliance for Parliamentary Cohesion bloc made a most 
vehement protest to "this new and flagrant violation of 
parliamentary immunity." The Alliance also appealed to the 
Executive and to the Armed Forces to "Identify the 
transgressors and bring them before the law," according to a 
press release signed by Senator Julio Larosiliere.

On November 5, the Chamber of Deputies "strongly protested 
these arbitrary and unconstitutional acts" and "urgently 
appealed to the authorities of the Armed Forces of Haiti to take 
appropriate measures to avoid and punish such actions." The 
Senate also addressed a letter to the Ministry of the Interior 
and National Defense. (...)

The Finance Commission tries to convene an 
extraordinary session. Six members of the Chamber of 
Deputies Finance commission informed the press of their 
approaches to the president of the Lower Chamber, Dr. 
Alexandra Medard, to convene the Assembly to vote on the 
budget for fiscal year 1992-93. These deputies, generally 
allied with the Alliance for Parliamentary cohesion, are: Frantz 
Robert Monde, president of the Commission, Luc Dieudonne, 
vice-president, Walto Augustin, Gabriel Sanon, Sorel Jacinthe 
and Yves Pericles Beauge, members.

The president of the Commission, Frantz Robert Monde 
(Anse-a-Veau) maintained that Marc Bazin, in his capacity as 
president of the Council of Ministers, legally mandated by the 
Villa d'Accueil agreement, can convene the parliamentarians of 
the 45th legislature in extraordinary session.

The National Front for Change and Democracy (FNCD) does 
not share the idea of convocation of an extraordinary session 
by the prime minister of June 19th with whom they have no 
political relations, stated one parliamentarian, noting the 
absence of the president elected on December 16, 1990.

Dr. Alexandra Medard, an FNCD member and president of the 
Lower Chamber, disagrees with his colleagues in the Alliance 
with regard to convocation of the Legislature in extraordinary 
session by prime minister Marc Bazin, referring to Articles 101 
and 105 of the Constitution of 1987.

OTHER ITEMS

Jeremie: Maritime transport blocked. Residents of 
Jeremie, Anse-en-Hailnaut and Dame-Marie have had 
difficulty since last Friday traveling by sea to Port-au-Prince or 
other locations in Grand 'Anse. This is because of repeated 
threats by certain young men who want to divert commercial 
boats to Miami. The CARIDAD, which travels the Port-au-
Prince-Jeremie route, was attacked on the Jeremie wharf on 
November 7, according to its captain, Mr. Jean Joseph. 
(Tropic FM, November 9, 1992)

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[Translated by Haiti Communications Project - Boston]
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