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Haiti Report for September 3, 2006

The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described
in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY.
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This service is intended to create a better understanding of the
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IN THIS REPORT:
- - Tropical Storm Ernesto Damages Homes and Kills Two
- - Rape Victim Testifies in Hearing for Emmanuel "Toto" Constant
- - Cuban-Venezuelan Operation Miracle in Haiti
- - Rene Civil is Rearrested
- - Rape Victims March in Port-au-Prince
- - Canadian Troops Implicated in Human Rights Survey
- - Analysts Advocate for Reparations of Haiti's Independence Debt

ALSO:
- - DECLARATION of the Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV)
- - Resolution of the Third Solidarity Encounter with the Haitian People

Tropical Storm Ernesto Damages Homes and Kills Two:
Pelted by torrential rains, but spared catastrophic damage, Haiti
awoke from Ernesto's passage Monday to reports of at least two storm-
related deaths and seaside homes carried out to sea. Dr. Michaele
Gedeon, president of the Haitian Red Cross, confirmed the storm
system had caused two deaths, one in the capital city of Port-au-
Prince, and one in the southern peninsula, where rains were heaviest.
She said the relief agency was looking into reports of a third victim
on Gonave Island, opposite the capital. Natural disasters tend to
affect Haiti disproportionately because the country is ill equipped
to respond. Rampant deforestation means mudslides are common after
storms. Phone service is patchy and rebuilding materials scarce.
David was optimistic about Ernesto's aftermath in Haiti, as it shed
most of its rain in the south, where mountainous terrain gives way to
a fringe of coastline, helping drainage. Gedeon, of the Red Cross,
said that relief organization evacuated some 30 families Sunday
evening in the southern quadrant of Port-au-Prince. There was also
flood damage to homes in the western part of the city, she said. "Our
goal was zero deaths," Gedeon said in a phone interview. "The poverty
is a crucial problem, but we are rich because we have so many
volunteers who come to help us." (Sun-Sentinel, 8/29)

Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis indicated Sunday that
steps have been taken by the authorities to provide emergency
assistance to victims of Hurricane Ernesto, now downgraded to a
tropical storm. Ernesto brought torrential rains and very serious
flooding to several regions of the country, particularly the South
Department, where Ernesto came to within 60 kilometers. The Haitian
government has banned air and sea travel until further notice and
announced emergency assistance to all regions. While no casualties
had been reported by Sunday, some 25,000 families were evacuated from
Martissant, a poor district south of the capital which has suffered
violence from armed bands over the past two years, especially at the
hands of the criminal group known as "lame ti manchht" (little
machete army). On the island of La Gonbve, 13 homes were destroyed.
Several seaside homes in the city of Les Cayes (160 kms south of the
capital) were flooded, as well as numerous crop plantings in the
region. Very strong winds buffeted Port-au-Prince throughout
Saturday evening and were followed by heavy rains on Sunday that
prompted residents to remain indoors. "The government is mobilized
together with the national police and MINUSTAH to accompany the
victims" said Mr. Alexis. Finance Minister Daniel Dorsainvil
announced emergency assistance in the amount of 300,000 gourdes for
each geographical Department of the country. Interior Minister Paul
Antoine Bien-Aimi said that 10,000 emergency kits are available.
(AHP, 8/27)

Rape Victim Testifies in Hearing for Emmanuel "Toto" Constant:
One of three women who claim she was gang-raped by soldiers loyal to
a former Haitian strongman testified Tuesday that one attack took
place as her five small children watched. Masked men burst into her
home in Port-au-Prince in 1994 and raped her while her children saw
"everything that was being done to me," she said through an
interpreter and behind a large video screen to shield her identity.
The hearing was about whether Emmanuel "Toto" Constant owes at least
$1 million in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages
to each of three women named as plaintiffs. The witness, who fled to
the U.S. in 2003, has accused Constant of sanctioning the systematic
rape of women in the early 1990s to silence slum-dwellers still
devoted to the ousted former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S.
District Judge Sidney Stein granted her anonymity based on fears she
still could be targeted for retribution.

The defense table was vacant: Constant remains in jail on Long Island
after being charged in July with mortgage fraud. His attorney in that
case has declined to comment.
Constant emerged as the feared leader of a right-wing paramilitary
group after Aristide was deposed in 1991. It terrorized and
slaughtered Aristide loyalists between 1991 and 1994, human rights
groups say. The alleged rape victim testified that her ordeal began
when her husband, a taxi driver and fierce Aristide supporter,
vanished in 1992. She described taking to the streets and voicing her
despair. Even after being jailed and beaten, she remained vocal until
five men arrived at her door in April 1994. They beat up her 8-year-
old son and took turns raping her, she said. Two months later, the
nightmare was repeated. Three months later, she saw a doctor who
delivered some shocking news: She was pregnant by one her attackers.
A son was born on Feb. 12, 1995. He and the rest of her children
still live in Haiti. (AP, 8/30)

Cuban-Venezuelan Operation Miracle in Haiti:
The joint Cuban-Venezuelan project Operation Miracle that offers free
corrective eye-surgery across Latin America and the Caribbean has
come to the Haitian department of Artibonite. This north-western
province, affected by severe weather phenomena over the past several
years, welcomed the Cuban health professionals who officially opened
the La Providence Eye Clinic August 8. Two days later in the capital
of Port-Au-Prince, a similar, albeit much larger, medical center -La
Renaissance- was also opened. Both facilities are completely staffed
by Cuban specialists and offer all services free-of-charge. Despite
the usual up and downs of any new endeavour, in the first two weeks,
160 patients have been treated, the majority receiving surgery for
pterigium, a disease that affects the cornea and the conjunctive
membrane of the eyes.

Before the opening of these two facilities, fully equipped with state-
of-the- art technology provided by Cuba, 659 Haitians were brought to
Cuba as part of Operation Miracle to receive treatment. Between
September 2005 and July 2006 there was at least one weekly flight
between the two Caribbean islands to transport patients. The new
centers have eliminated the need for airplane travel, bringing high
quality eye-care and surgical procedures never before seen in Haiti.
With news spreading quickly, the lines at La Providence and La
Renaissance are ever growing longer. The patients, of all ages, come
from across Haiti, either by their own imitative or sent by one of
the Cuban doctors working in 100 of the 138 Haitian municipalities.
Cuba has plans to expand its doctors to all of the islands
municipalities. Operation Miracle is currently operating in several
Caribbean and Latin America countries thanks to the joint efforts of
the governments of Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
(Gramna, 8/30)

Rene Civil is Rearrested:
The head of Jeunesse Pouvoir Populaire (JPP), Reni Civil, who was
arrested Saturday for possession of an illegal weapon and being in a
vehicle stolen in the Dominican Republic, was transferred Monday from
the police station in Pition-Ville to the National Penitentiary.
Reiterating Mr. Civil9s statements, one of his lawyers, Sergo Louis
Charles, said that the vehicle in which his client was found belonged
to him well before the events of February 29, 2004, which led to the
departure of Aristide. It was the police who were using the vehicle
during his time in exile in the Dominican Republic and it was the
police who returned it to him upon his return, said Civil, through
his attorney. Louis Charles does not comprehend the reasoning for the
arrest as the vehicle meets all legal requirements. Lavalas activists
met Monday at the Aristide Foundation for Democracy to denounce the
arrest of the political activist. They claimed that the allegations
are hiding the true motives. They also denounced his arrest while
assassins in the Armie ti manchht, who perform summary executions in
the popular neighbourhoods of the capital over the last two years,
move about freely. (AHP, 8/28)

Rape Victims March in Port-au-Prince:
Haiti Wearing white dresses and black masks, 150 rape victims marched
through Haiti's capital Friday to demand justice and an end to
discrimination against them. Chants of "We will not give up the
fight!" rose up as the protesters including teenagers and elderly
women walked slowly to Haiti's National Palace. It was the first
public demonstration in years by women calling attention to rape,
which is rarely prosecuted in Haiti and carries a stigma against
victims. "When you are raped ... you feel like you are no longer
human because those close to you don't want anything to do with you,"
said Elisena Nicola, a 38-year-old mother of five. She said
paramilitaries broke into her Port-au-Prince home in 1991 and raped
her before killing her husband. She said she was raped again in 2004
during lawlessness that erupted following a revolt that ousted former
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "We want the government to support
us and bring our perpetrators to justice," Nicola said.

Haiti's minister for women's affairs, Marie Laurence Jocelyn
Lassegue, said her office was trying to raise funds for initiatives
to protect women from violence and help rape victims. "Right now,
women who are raped have nowhere to go for help," Lassegue told the
women, who gathered outside her office and declared their demands.
The protest was organized by the Commission of Women Victims for
Victims, which was founded by women raped during a 1991-1994 military
regime that toppled an earlier Aristide government. The group
provides medical treatment and counseling to rape victims. Fear of
being shunned or ignored by police keeps many victims from seeking
help, she said. "There's absolutely no accountability for
perpetrators of rape or those that back them," Sosin said. (AP, 9/1)
** See the declaration from KOFAVIV near the end of this report**

Canadian Troops Implicated in Human Rights Survey:
Canadian troops with the United Nations in Haiti made death threats
during house raids and made sexual threats against women while drunk
and off-duty, according to Haitians interviewed as part of a
meticulous human rights survey by U.S. researchers in December 2005
published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. The
study, which estimated that 8,000 Haitians have been murdered and
35,000 women and girls raped in Port-au-Prince alone since the ouster
of then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in early 2004, did not
mention Canadians specifically, blaming only Brazilian and Jordanian
troops for making threats. But in an interview yesterday, the study's
lead author said Haitians pinpointed Canadians as among those UN
military personnel who threatened them physically or sexually.
"Canadians were definitely blamed for death threats and threats of
physical and sexual violence," said Athena Kolbe, 30, an expert on
Haiti who speaks Creole. She has visited Haiti often and is doing her
master's degree at Wayne State University's School of Social Work, in
Detroit.

One family was interviewed at their home in Delmas, an eastern suburb
of the capital, Port-au-Prince. "Canadian troops came to their house,
and they said they were looking for (pro-Aristide) Lavalas chimeres,
and threatened to kill the head of household, who was the father, if
he didn't name names of people in their neighbourhood who were
Lavalas chimeres or Lavalas supporters," Kolbe said by phone from San
Francisco. "And he refused to, because, as he told us, he didn't know
anyone." How did he recognize the soldiers were Canadians? "From the
flag on the uniform," Kolbe said. How did he remember the incident so
precisely? "Because the family was traumatized by it." That incident
was alleged to have taken place around the time of Aristide's
departure in February 2004.

In another incident, "one woman said a Canadian soldier tried to have
sex with her, that this soldier was drunk and she didn't want to, and
that he was threatening her and grabbing at her when she didn't want
to," Kolbe said. The woman was out with her friends near a Canadian
base, on a street where drunk and off-duty Canadian soldiers in
uniform tried to pick up local women. Of the women in the peer-
reviewed study who complained of sexual threats, drunk and off-duty
Canadian and U.S. soldiers were most often blamed, Kolbe said. "But
regarding Brazilian and Jordanian troops, a lot of the sexual threats
were actually when they were on patrol."

Canada sent 450 soldiers and other personnel along with six CH-146
Griffon helicopters to Haiti in March 2004 as part of a UN
peacekeeping force of 6,700 military personnel and 1,600 police. The
Canadian soldiers left in August of that year, but Canada still has
66 police officers in Haiti leading the UN's police force. The Lancet
survey - which questioned 5,720 randomly selected Haitians living in
and around the capital about their lives in the 22 months since
Aristide's fall - found that 97 said they had received death threats,
232 had been threatened physically and 86 sexually. One-third of the
perpetrators were criminals, about 20 per cent were Haitian National
Police and other government security agents, and another 20 per cent
were foreign soldiers. Most soldiers were identified by the flag
displayed on their UN helmet or on their uniform sleeve over the
upper arm. Other UN personnel were harder to identify by country;
they had blue helmets but no flags. The allegations of misconduct
indicate that UN troops in Haiti need to be reined in, Kolbe said.
Canadians would likely have been more frequently cited if the study
hadn't been restricted to the greater Port-au-Prince area, where
Canadian troops patrol less than elsewhere in Haiti, Kolbe added.

Told of the allegations after Kolbe related them late yesterday
afternoon, a spokesperson for the Department of National Defence said
they sounded specific and serious but needed verification before any
comment could be made. "Is there any way that you could give us time
to comment?" said Lt. Adam Thomson, asking publication of the
allegations be delayed until after the Labour Day weekend. Also in
Ottawa yesterday, Rejean Beaulieu, the Foreign Affairs department
spokesperson for Haiti, refused comment, offering instead only an off-
the-record, not-for-attribution "deep background briefing" on
Canada's role in Haiti. Earlier, Beaulieu referred questions to the
UN, which he said "should be in a better position to answer since our
people in Haiti were and are working under this umbrella."

In Montreal, a spokesperson for Premier Jean Charest - who visited
Haiti in June 2005 and received its controversial prime minister,
Gerard Latortue, at his Montreal office last March - also declined
comment. "The type of relationship we have with Haiti is through
humanitarian projects," not peacekeeping or policing, which is
Ottawa's jurisdiction, Hugo d'Amours said. Ridiculous, retorted Marie-
Dominik Langlois, co-ordinator of the Christian Committee for Human
Rights in Latin America. "There are lots of humanitarian projects in
Haiti that only serve to legitimize so-called community leaders" who
had a role in the undemocratic removal of Aristide, and Quebec is
involved with them, she said. But one Montreal Haitian community
group took an opposite view. "Impunity (from justice) reigns like a
king in Haiti, but in my opinion things would be even worse without
the UN presence," said Marjorie Villefranche, director of programs at
the Maison d'Haiti, a St. Michel community centre founded in 1972
that serves some of the 70,000 Haitians here. "There has been an
acceleration of violence. But it's an acceleration caused by armed
groups, not foreign soldiers. The real mistake was that the UN didn't
disarm everyone when they arrived." (The Gazette, Montreal, 9/2)

Analysts Advocate for Reparations of Haiti's Independence Debt:
A meeting of international diplomats and financiers in Port-au-Prince
this summer ended up with a commitment of $750 million in foreign aid
to Haiti over the coming year. This generosity will build badly
needed roads, schools and hospitals, which will make a real
difference to ordinary Haitiansthe poorest people in the Americasin
the short-term. But what Haiti really needs to permanently end
centuries of misery is not the worlds charity, but its justice. The
July donors meeting refused to discuss the one fair and lasting
solution to Haitis grinding poverty: restitution of the independence
debt imposed by France in 1825. The debtcalculated at $21 billion in
current dollarsdwarfs current aid commitments and its payment would
allow Haitians to develop their economy without the attached strings
that keep poor countries dependent on international aid.

Haiti has a new democratic government, and an opportunity to make a
clean break from the past. The $750 million that the international
community has promised towards this transition is a lot of money, but
it is less than a years interest on the $21 billion dollars that
France owes Haiti. Moreover, if the past is any guide, not all of the
promised money will arrive, and much of it will come with strings
attachedloan repayments, import tariff reductions, privatization of
government services, etc.that will
perpetuate Haitis dependence on international help. If the
international community really wants to help Haiti, repayment of the
independence debt will be at the top of the agenda, not off the
table. A just repayment of the independence debt, by contrast, would
allow Haiti to develop the way todays wealthy countries didbased on
national priorities set inside the country. It would also right a
historical wrong, and set a strong example of good neighbor policies
for a global neighborhood. Authors: Anthony Phillips works with the
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). Human rights
lawyer Brian Concannon Jr. directs the IJDH, found at
www.ijdh.org.and is an analyst with the IRC Americas Program. (Tom
Paine, 9/1)

DECLARATION of the Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 1, 2006

The Commission of Women Victims for Victims is a group of Haitian
survivors of rape from the 1991-94 military coup ditat. We fought
unsuccessfully for justice and reparations for years. When, in 2004,
we saw that the same women were being raped again, we shifted our
work in order to aid these new victims. Because many women who were
victimized when we were died from sexually transmitted diseases
including AIDS, we provide victims medical care. KOFAVIV works with
women victims from poor neighborhoods like LaSaline, Bel Air, Citi
Soleil, Grande Ravine, Ti Bwa, Martissant, and Village de Dieu.

We, women victims, many of us from the poorest groups of the
population, have decided today to say no to all forms of violence and
discrimination to which we have been subjected during the last 200
years. We are victims of rape. Armed groups have forced their way
into our homes, stole everything we owned, raped us and our
daughters, burned our houses, and threatened us. Many of us were
forced to leave our homes and have been sleeping on the
mountainside. We have lost our commercial goods, and we do not have
the means to send our children to school. When we open our mouths to
speak, we risk being threatened or killed.

We, women who have been subjected to all forms of violence, are
standing up to defend our rights. Haiti has signed more human rights
conventions than almost any other state. Yet Haiti remains one of
the countries where human rights, particularly womens rights, are
most violated. We know that rights do not mean anything when they
remain only on paper. For this reason, we ask the government to
implement all of these conventions and to give meaning to the
international communitys condemnation of violence against women.

It must be the job of all branches of the government to respect human
rights. Parliament must adopt forceful laws to protect womens
rights. The Executive must take strong measures to stand in
solidarity with women victims from the last 10 years. The police
need to provide security in poor neighborhoods and other areas in
order to stop kidnapping and rape. We ask that the state take action
in the justice system to end impunity. We also ask the state to take
all necessary measures to aid women who are victims of all types of
violationsthose whose houses have been burned and those who have
been forced to flee and sleep in churches, mountainsides, and porches
of homesso that they have homes and dont have to rely on the
support of other community members.

Ending violence and discrimination against women is everyones
responsibility. We ask civil society to wake up and condemn this
relentless violence. Where are the political parties? What do you
have to say about the women of Martissant, Grande Ravine, Corridor La
Fwa, Ti Bwa who have been abandoned with no support? During
elections, you know that women were there until the end. All your
leaders are silent. Political groups-- stop using what we have
suffered as propaganda without recognizing our existence. When you
do this, you re-victimize us.

We ask for justice for all women. But what does justice mean for
us? We say that womens rights are human rights. But what do human
rights mean for us? When we reflect on our situation, we are able to
say that we are victims of rape because we are deprived of our social
and economic rights. We live in the worst houses. We have no
economic means. So, we are forced to go out to make a living even
that means endangering ourselves. As a result, we are more
vulnerable to violence. We in KOFAVIV received care when we were
raped. But dont all women have the right to health care for
themselves and their children when they are sick? Shouldnt all
women have access to care when they deliver their children? Why
cant all women live in better conditions so that they arent exposed
to so many diseases?

We say that protecting womens rights is not only about providing
safety from those responsible for these abuses, and that justice is
not only about putting them in prison. It is about respecting all of
our rights and the rights of everyone because we know that poverty is
a reason why many women become victims. We have a right to
education. We ask the state to stop the privatization of schools and
to build national schools so that women have access to education. We
ask the state to put an effective education program in place so that
women can obtain sufficient jobs. We have the right to work. We ask
the state to create jobs for women without discrimination, jobs that
will increase womens economic power so that they can achieve
economic autonomy. We ask that the state valorize womens work.
Women working in the informal sector, especially widows whose
husbands died during the political conflict and left them with many
children, need to have social support. We ask the state to define an
economic policy that will increase production and lower the cost of
living. This would allow us to live decently.

When we think about poverty and lack of respect for human rights, we
see that the economic crisis has roots in the foreign policies of
powerful countries towards smaller countries like our own. Powerful
countries need to see that rights that we are demanding will never be
respected if their policies in poor countries do not change. The
national and international community must know too that health,
education, shelter, and access to higher education are womens
rights. Their programs must help women access these rights while
making it easier for the state respect to them. They should put in
place good programs that will have a real benefit for women. Women
must be able to participate in decision-making processes that affect us.

When we heard this week about the judgment against Toto Constant, we
felt that a great step forward had been made. We had been waiting
for this for a long time. KOFAVIV celebrates the decision taken by
an American court against Toto Constant. We congratulate everyone
who was fighting to judge this leader of FRAPH. But the fight has
just begun and with hope, women will succeed in getting justice and
reparations. We will continue the struggle until all criminals have
been condemned. This decision gives us a great deal of courage. All
groups that are involved in rape, both those that are perpetrating it
and those that are supporting these individuals, must stop violating
the rights of women. At the same time, we remind the state that it
has the obligation to take all action necessary to prevent all forms
of violence against women.

The fight has just begun. Womens rights must be respected.

SOLIDARITY ENCOUNTER WITH THE HAITIAN PEOPLE, 3RD EDITION, RESOLUTION
August 20 26, 2006, Port-au-Prince
Considering the historical importance, for the whole world, of the
act of Haitis national independence, proclaimed on January 1, 1804;
Considering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December
10, 1948;
Considering the United Nations General Assembly proclamation of
2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against
Slavery and its Abolition, which recognized Haiti as the symbol of
the struggle and resistance of slaves, and triumph of the principles
of liberty, equality, dignity and the rights of the individual;
Considering the unique circumstances under which the independence
of Haiti was proclaimed;
Considering the glorious epic struggle of our ancestors, former
slaves, who succeeded in 1804 in reversing the oppressive slave
system, an accomplishment unique in the history of humanity;
Considering that, thanks to the sweat and blood of our ancestors,
Haiti was the Pearl of the Antilles;
Considering the isolation imposed by the great colonial and
slaveholding powers of the time on Haiti;
Considering the heroic actions of February 7, 2006, which permitted
the Haitian people to completely reverse the coup ditat of February
29 2004, thereby limiting its destruction;
We, the organizations with the Worldwide Movement of Solidarity
with the Haitian People, and the Haitian grassroots organizations
attending the 3rd Edition of the Solidarity Encounter with the
Haitian People, which took place from August 20-26, 2006 in Port-au-
Prince, have unanimously agreed:
1. To ask the 48th Legislature of the Haitian Parliament to
prepare and vote a resolution, to UNESCO (the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), qualifying Haiti
as a Patrimony of Humanity;
2. To ask His Excellency Mr. Reni Garcia Prival, President of
the Republic of Haiti, to immediately take all possible steps to
facilitate the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti;
3. To ask the United Nations Security Council to vote a
resolution annulling that of August 15, 2006, and calling for the
immediate withdrawal of the MINUSTAH soldiers from Haiti and the
cessation of all steps to place this Caribbean country under
international tutelage;
4. To urge the Haitian government to take the necessary steps
to relaunch the process of national dialog in a more balanced
fashion, including all sectors and all ranks of society without
exclusion;
5. To encourage the Haitian Government to implement a real
process of disarmament at the level of all ranks and all groups in
society that possess illegal weapons, to free all the political
prisoners without distinction, to eliminate the illegal, extra-
judicial and discriminatory measures taken by the de facto
authorities against the grassroots activists in poor neighborhoods on
account of their political convictions;
6. To ask the Government to re-balance the Provisional
Electoral Council, to remove its corrupt elements in order to
safeguard the institutions credibility, to re-open the electoral
registers to new voters and new candidates for the local and
municipal elections, and to organize these elections within a
reasonable time;
7. To encourage the holding in Port-au-Prince, before the end
of the year, of an international tribunal which will provide the
victims of the de facto regime the opportunity to testify to the
entire world the violations of their human rights committed by the
brutal regime installed by the coup ditat of February 29, 2004, and
by paramilitary groups and foreign soldiers in Haiti;
8. To demand the donor countries and international financial
institutions to annul Haitis foreign debt without conditions, and we
demand that France reimburse the funds extorted by force from the
government of Jean-Pierre Boyer in 1825, in the amount of 90 million
gold francs, which equals more than $21 billion US in current terms;
9. To demand the Haitian Government to avoid all structural
adjustment and privatization programs imposed by the international
donors that could generate more misery, increase the already chronic
unemployment, destroy national production and leave the country
dependent on forces outside the country;
10. To organize the 4th Edition of the Solidarity Encounter with
the Haitian people at the beginning of August, 2007.

For Authentication:
Jacques Depelchin, OTA BENGA Alliance for Peace, Healing and
Dignity, DR-Congo and USA
Ben Terrall, Haiti Action Committee, Oakland, California, USA
Sr. Maureen Duignan, Ireland
Brian Concannon, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,
Joseph, Oregon, USA
Frederic Maeder, Switzerland
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Fondation Trente Septembre Haiti

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