From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: UN: Extrajudicial executions continue in Haiti
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:16:07 GMT

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** Topic: protest human rights abuses in hai **
** Written  2:23 pm  Aug 13, 1992 by lchr in cdp:reg.carib **
                                        August 10, 1992
 
VIA TELECOPY
 
Bacre Waly Ndiaye
Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Human Rights Centre
United Nations
Palais des Nations
CH-1211
Geneva 10
Switzerland
 
Dear Mr. Ndiaye:
 
     Extrajudicial executions continue to plague Haiti. 
The sheer number of executions since May 1992 has
increased at an alarming rate.  The following is only a
sample of those executions the Lawyers Committee has
been able to confirm:
 
 Georges Izmery was executed on May 26, 1992 at
approximately 6:00 p.m.  Mr. Izmery was leaving his
office and walking to his car when he was shot two
times in the back in front of hundreds of witnesses
less than 200 feet from a major police station in
downtown Port-au-Prince.  Mr. Izmery'd brother Antoine
is a well known supporter of President Aristide and he
has received death threats.
 
 Six cadavers of young men who had been executed were
discovered at Morne Carbrit, about 30 miles north of
Port-au-Prince on June 24, 1992.  Their bodies were in
an advanced state of decay.  Each showed bullet wounds. 
 
 
 On June 24, 1992, Gary Janty, 23 years old, from
Santos was assassinated by a sergeant in the Haitian
army nicknamed "Taye Pw
l".  Reports indicate that the
sergeant was later arrested but we have no details on
whether he has been charged or whether he remains in
detention.
 
 On May 19, 1992, five bodies were found on the Delmas
road to the Port-au-Prince suburb of Ptionville.  All
five bodies had bullet wounds.  The executions occurred
one day after a plane had flown over Port-au-Prince and
dropped leaflets with President Aristide's picture.
 
 
In Anse-d'Hainault, in southwestern Haiti, a soldier
named Tourbeck arrested and beat to death an unnamed
young man approximately 20 years old.  This young man
had been detained in prison and had vomited blood for
several hours and received no medical attention before
dying.  
 
 On July 9, in the industrial zone near the Port-au-
Prince airport, three workers, two women and one man,
were executed by armed civilians who jumped out of a
jeep and shot them. This occurred at approximately 2:00
p.m. on the road to the airport.
 
 On July 15, 1992, at approximately 4:00 a.m. an armed
civilian shot and killed a young man named Wilfred who
was putting up photos of President Aristide on walls in
the Cit Soliel section of Port-au-Prince. The body was
not taken away until 7:00 p.m. the same day.
 
 On August 3, 1992, Mr. Robinson Joseph, former
director of the Protestant Church radio station, Radio
Lumi
re, was shot and killed by soldiers in downtown
Port-au-Prince.  The soldiers were in the process of
searching all houses and cars in this section of Port-
au-Prince following an attack the previous day on a
police station.  Soldiers allege that they thought Mr.
Robinson was trying to avoid the search and shot him
twice in the head killing him. Numerous other rounds
were fired into his car.  Even if true, the use of
deadly force by the Haitian armed forces seems
completely unwarranted and illegal under international
law.  The Lawyers Committee has been informed that the
Haitian army has begun an investigation into the
killing.
 
     The Lawyers Committee is trying to obtain more
information about an extremely disturbing report.  On
July 19, 1992, a group of 86 Haitians attempted to
leave the country on an overcrowded boat from the area
called Sources Puantes, approximately 20 miles
northeast of Port-au-Prince.  After paying
approximately $500 each to the owner of the boat, the
boat began its departure at approximately 5:00 a.m. 
The boat had barely left the dock when it is reported
that a truckload of soldiers arrived and began firing
on the boat.  Several bodies were later recovered
reportedly with bullet wounds and some also showed
signs of having been strangled.  As of Wednesday, July
22, it is reported that 35 corpses had been recovered. 
Because of the danger of doing follow up human rights
work in Haiti, various human rights 
organizations around the country have only been able to
compile a partial list of names.  Once further
information is obtained, I will send you details about
this incident.
 
     Please feel free to contact me if you have any
questions or need additional information.  The
situation in Haiti has reached alarming proportions.
Whatever emergency measures are available to the
Special Rapporteur should be undertaken as quickly as
possible.
 
 
 
 
                                   Sincerely,
 
 
 
                                   William G. O'Neill
                                   Deputy Director
 
 
CC:  Mr. Marco Tulio Bruni-Celli
     Gen. Raoul Cdras
     Mr. Marc Bazin
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