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Haiti’s New PM: Mining Laws Being Drafted

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:36:29 +0000

By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti May 16, 2012 (AP)

The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday.

Laurent Lamothe, who saw his Cabinet and policy plan approved hours earlier, told The Associated Press during an interview that the legislation will be sent to Parliament soon. It will lay out rules apportioning royalties for the government and setting protections for the people and environment that could be affected by mines.

“The most important thing is to have the correct mining law,” he said. “It ensures that the right portion comes to the state. It ensures that the people living in the region where the mines are, that their rights are protected. It ensures environmental protection.”

The plans to draft the mining legislation come after the AP reported that two mining companies have begun drilling in Haiti’s northeastern mountains. The companies say testing indicates the precious metals such as gold, copper and silver is worth potentially $20 billion.

That would be a boon for Haiti, which is one of the world’s poorest countries. Most of its 10 million people live on less than $2 a day.

Until the story, few Haitians knew about the recent efforts to mine their country. Mining camps are unmarked, and the work is being done in remote villages on the opposite side of the country from the capital, Port-au-Prince.

U.S. and Canadian investors have spent more than $30 million in recent years on exploratory drilling along with camps for workers, new roads, offices and laboratory studies of samples.

Haiti’s mining potential has been known for several decades. In the 1970s, United Nations geologists documented significant pockets of gold and copper ore, but foreigners weren’t willing to take a risk in a country where corruption and political instability have long discouraged foreign investment.

Mining laws in Haiti haven’t been revised since 1976.

Lamothe said the legislation being drafted is meant to benefit Haiti while also making the country attractive to outside investors by allowing companies to profit from mining.

When asked how much he would like Haiti to receive, Lamothe said: “As much as possible without hampering also the revenue of the party, allowing them to do business.”

The interview came after Lamothe introduced the ministers of his Cabinet, which was approved by Parliament on Monday. The government includes two new posts, a minister to deal with poverty and another to support farmers.

In addition to the mining legislation, Lamothe said his government wants to introduce programs that will clean Port-au-Prince’s garbage-strewn streets by using firefighters and other workers, better maintain roads and help mothers living in the capital’s poorer neighborhoods.

Lamothe, a former telecommunications executive, officially became prime minister Monday night following the approval of his Cabinet and government plan. There had been a nearly three-month vacancy after President Michel Martelly’s first prime minister resigned after only four months on the job.

The absence of a prime minister and fully functioning government has hobbled efforts to rebuild after the 2010 earthquake.

La liste complète du cabinet ministériel de Laurent Lamothe

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:22:56 +0000

Haïti: Ministre de la Défense – Jean Rodolphe Joazile

Ministre du Commerce et de l’Industrie – Wilson Laleau

Ministre de la Jeunesse, des Sports et de l’Action Civique – Jean Roosevelt René

Ministre de l’Environnement – Joseph Ronald Toussaint

Ministre des Haïtiens vivant à l’étranger – Daniel Supplice

Ministre délégué auprès du Premier Ministre chargé de promotion de la paysannerie – Marie Mimose Félix

Ministre des Affaires Sociales et du Travail – Ronsard St-Cyr

Ministre de l’Agriculture des ressources naturelles et du Développement Rural – Thomas Jacques

Ministre des Affaires Étrangères et des Cultes – Laurent Lamothe

Ministre délégué auprès du Premier Ministre chargé des relations avec le Parlement – Ralph Théano

Ministre délégué auprès du Premier Ministre chargé des Droit de l’Homme et de la lutte contre la pauvreté extrême – Marie Carmelle Rose Anne Auguste

Ministre à la Condition Féminine et aux Droits des Femmes – Yanick Mézil
Ministre de la Culture – Jean Mario Dupuy

Ministre de la Communication – Ady Jean Gardy

Ministre de l’Éducation nationale et de la Formation professionnelle – Réginald Paul

Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances – Marie Carmelle Jean Marie

Ministre de l’Intérieur et des Collectivités Territoriales – Thierry Mayard-Paul

Ministre de la Justice et de la Sécurité Publique – Jean Renel Sanon

Ministre de la Santé Publique et de la Population – Florence Duperval Guillaume

Ministre du Tourisme – Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin

Ministre des Travaux Public, Transports, Énergie et Communications – Jacques Rousseau

Ministre de la Planification et de la coopération externe – Josépha Raymond Gauthier.

Haitian president’s mixed record

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:56:36 +0000

OUR OPINION: President Martelly must change the political climate

By The Miami Herald Editorial

HeraldEd@MiamiHerald.com

President Michel Martelly approaches the one-year anniversary of his inauguration this week with a decidedly mixed record. For the singer-turned-president once known as Sweet Micky, it’s been a painful learning curve.

Much of the rubble is gone and some tent cities have been shut down, most prominently the one in front of the prime minister’s office. But life for the vast majority of Haitians has barely improved, if at all, and the pace of change remains frustratingly slow. Some reconstruction projects are underway — notably a major, new industrial park — but reconstruction as a cohesive, strategic project has largely come to a halt.

The main reason is Haiti’s chronically dysfunctional political system and Mr. Martelly’s own governing style.

As this is written, recently ratified Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is on his way to receiving the final vote for his government and political program to go forward. He is the second under Mr. Martelly. The previous PM’s departure left the government paralyzed. The turnover reflects the political instability dogging Mr. Martelly’s tenure. Try as he might to convince foreigners that Haiti is a good place to do business, the dysfunction requires would-be investors to take a huge leap of faith.

• Transparency. Mr. Martelly touts a figure of 1 million students, many in school for the first time. That could be a remarkable achievement but the figure can’t be verified due to a lack of information and clear documentation.

A government subsidy to students ostensibly comes from a tax on overseas phone calls, but more transparency is needed on how much has been collected and where it’s going. A similar lack of verifiable data surrounds other programs.

• Security. Mr. Martelly once promised to restore the armed forces, which were abolished in 1995 because of their abusive past. As president, he has had a change of heart, but here, too, the future remains murky. Last week, U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested a few members of the lightly armed militias that have been parading around Port-au-Prince in military uniforms asking for Mr. Martelly to make good on his brash and mistaken promise.

A few arrests aren’t enough. Until they are completely disbanded and cleared out of former military bases they now inhabit, their existence will represent a challenge to the government’s authority.

• Jobs and the displaced. Many Haitians were lured out of tent cities by a $500 one-time subsidy to live elsewhere. When the money runs out, they will return to living in the streets if there are no jobs.

Mr. Lamothe represents the last chance for Mr. Martelly’s government to get its house in order. As long as Haiti remains dependent on foreign money, the president can’t control the economy, but he must fix the political climate.

The terms of 10 members of the Senate expired last week, yet there is no date for new elections. Constitutional amendments to give the Haitian diaspora more rights and create a permanent electoral commission remain unratified. These items should be on Mr. Martelly’s priority agenda.

In spite of his shortcomings, Mr. Martelly remains incredibly popular, with some surveys giving him an 80 percent rating. Haiti’s poor believe that he listens to them.

His political capital won’t last long, however, unless Mr. Martelly changes course. Otherwise, Haitians will become disillusioned and Mr. Martelly will be seen as another failed leader in the tradition of Jean-Bertrand Aristide who never lived up to expectations.

Haiti sera dépouillée de ses richesses [en or] par une corporation can

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:36:36 +0000

“Haiti sera dépouillée de ses richesses [en or...] par une corporation canadienne…comme c’est arrivé en République Dominicaine …et ne pas bénéficiera de ses minéraux”

Haiti’s mineral wealth is marked for super-exploitation by a Canadian corporation that has already wreaked havoc in the neighboring Dominican Republic. Mining companies claim the gold and silver reserves were only recently discovered, but “the story could just as well be that the mining executives were biding their time and waiting for a non-nationalistic government to take effect before initiating their projects.” The operation requires construction of a deep-water port in Haiti’s northeast, threatening the country’s marine ecosystems.

“This mining plan will permanently strip the country of much of its mineral, cultural, and ecological wealth.”

Show me a corporate boss who calls Haiti the “poorest country in the western hemisphere,” and I’ll show you a con artist preparing to fleece Haiti. Likewise, show me a western technocrat who bemoans Haiti’s “dramatic deforestation due to charcoal production” and I’ll show a bio-pirate or vandal preparing to wreck Haiti’s remaining cloud-forest and mangrove-forest ecosystems.

It turns out that the real plan for Haiti’s northeastern region — especially the Caracol Bay area — is one that was hatched by Canadian mining corporations, with the U.S and South Korean sweatshop zone being a side project and distraction. If this mining plan is given a green light while Haiti is under foreign occupation, it will permanently strip the country of much of its mineral, cultural, and ecological wealth.

In a recent interview with Canada’s Financial Post, Majescor Resources CEO Dan Hachey was effusive about Michel Martelly’s installment as president because he expects Martelly’s policy of mimicking the Dominican Republic (DR) to be a boon to the mining sector.

Hachey enthusiastically noted that, “thirty years ago, there was no mining sector to speak of in the Dominican Republic…. In that short period of time they’ve seen the development of the Pueblo Viejo Project [of Barrick and Goldcorp's], which is one of the world’s largest gold deposits — and is pretty much a neighbor of ours. They’re going to be coming on with production this year.”

“The real plan for Haiti’s northeastern region is one that was hatched by Canadian mining corporations.”

This glowing picture omits the fact that Barrick and Goldcorp have come under strong popular opposition in the DR (where 20% of the population lacks access to drinking water) for polluting 2,500 cubic meters of water per hour with the vast quantities of cyanide needed to process 24,000 tons of ore a day by opencast (or open pit) mining. This method of mining is banned by the European Union. Activists in the DR have joined forces with a broader group called Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de America Latina (OCMAL) that has launched a campaign to end this practice in the region.

There is great concern that the DR’s biggest water reservoir, which is close to the mining operations, is continuously at risk of cyanide contamination, since stories of spills and massive fish die offs caused by mining companies are legion. Barrick and Goldcorp have also been accused of dynamiting mountainsand destroying Taino Indian archeological sites.

Like the Pueblo Viejo region of the DR currently under exploitation, the area being eyed for mining in Haiti — a 50-square-kilometer property called Somine — is replete with archeological sites and situated along a metal-rich mountain ridge, running from southeast DR to northern Haiti, and now called the Massif du Nord Metallogenic (or Mineralization) Belt.

“The DR’s biggest water reservoir is continuously at risk of cyanide contamination.”

Somine is owned jointly by Haiti’s elite and Majescor, a relatively small company that conducts mineral surveys. The Somine area is surrounded by other mining properties owned jointly by Majescor and larger concerns like Eurasian Minerals and Newmont Mining. Once Majescor’s surveys are complete, it plans to find a big partner, like Barrick or Newmont, to handle the extractive part of the project.

Curiously, the area of Somine was initially surveyed as early as “the 1970s by the UN Development Program, with some very good results [but the project was not pursued, then] there was a feasibility study done by the Germans in 1980, and there was further drilling done in the 1990s by a Canadian junior,” recalled Hachey.

The official story is that an abundance of copper had until recently obscured the fact that the area’s ore is also rich in silver and gold, and this was discovered from Majescor’s recent prospects of Douvray, Blondin and Faille B. However, the story could just as well be that the mining executives were biding their time and waiting for a non-nationalistic government to take effect before initiating their projects.

According to Hachey, April 11 [2012] assays from Blondin found:

0.45% copper over 96.5 meters;
0.3% copper over 12 meters, including 0.61% copper over 1.5 meters;
154 grams of silver per tonne (g/t) over 12 meters, including 869 g/t silver over 1.5 meters.

March 13 results from Blondin discovered:

72.4 g/t silver over 15 meters;
16.9 g/t silver over 113 meters, including 6.2 g/t silver over 1.5 meters;
0.43% copper over 113 meters, including 4.44% copper over 1.5 meters.

February 1 results from Douvray discovered:

255 g/t silver over 13.5 meters, including 2,069 g/t silver over 1.5 meters;
0.35% copper over 13.5 meters, including 0.52% copper over 1.5 meters;
0.02 g/t gold over 13.5 meters, including 0.04 g/t gold over 1.5 meters;
277 g/t silver over 13.5 meters, including 1,428 g/t silver over 1.5 meters;
0.18% copper over 13.5 meters, including 0.52% copper over 1.5 meters;
0.04 g/t gold over 13.5 meters, including 0.04 g/t gold over 1.5 meters.

These highly concentrated deposits of copper, silver and gold should reasonably represent a newfound wealth for Haiti at a time of dire need of resources for the country’s reconstruction. But if the DR is to serve as an example, Haiti will not benefit from its minerals. In the DR, Barrick owns 60% of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine and Goldcorp Inc. owns the remaining 40%. To get a sense of the scale of the greed, one need only consider that currently the Pueblo Viejo mine is slated to produce one million ounces of gold per year at a cost of only US$20-50/oz, making it one of the lowest-cost gold mines in the world.

“If the DR is to serve as an example, Haiti will not benefit from its minerals.”

Hachey comments with evident enthusiasm:

“What we’re most excited about is that we found some silver which was never really realized before. It’s the first silver discovery in Haiti.

“Part of the reason why it was never really discovered was that historically there was so much copper prevalent — there’s a lot of outcropping at surface. The people who did the work before did not do much testing, even for gold.

“The geology is a little complex for a copper porphyry, but in a good way. The surprises that we’re getting are all good ones.”

As major draws for a big mining partner to this next phase of the project, Hachey is advertising that, unlike Port-au-Prince, which was destroyed by the earthquake, Cap Haitien is a pleasant place for a Canadian mining executive and his family to come to. In addition he notes that there are plans for “the construction of a deep-water port at Caracol,” only 15 kilometres from Somine and near Cap-Haïtien.

This first official announcement of a deep-water port for Caracol explains in part why there has been no effort to mitigate the ecological effects of the massive free-trade (sweatshop) zone inaugurated in March 2012 in that area: the textile factories’ contributions to the degradation of Caracol Bay should be trivial compared to the damage from opencast gold mining and construction of a deep-water port.

Dady Chery grew up at the heart of an extended working-class family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She emigrated to New York when she was fourteen and since then has traveled throughout the world and lived in Europe and several North American cities. She writes in English, French, and her native Créole. She holds a doctorate. She can be contacted at dc(at)dadychery.org.

Uruguay: UN Rape Case Opens in Montevideo

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:33:40 +0000

Posted on 11 May 2012.

Johnny Jean, a 19-year-old Haitian who claims to have been raped by Uruguayan sailors working for the UN, gave his testimony yesterday at a court in Montevideo.

Jean says that a group of Uruguayan sailors working for the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) sexually abused him last September in the UN military base, Port Salut. The defence team maintains that his accusations are “unsustainable”.

Accompanied by his mother, four lawyers – two from the United States, one from Uruguay and one from Haiti – and a psychologist, he made his statement in front of the judge Guido and the attorney Gómez.

After his testimony, he went on to identify four of the five sailors who had supposedly raped him. A large part of the prosecution’s case is based on a low-resolution video that allegedly shows the sailors violating Jean. The victim has undergone physical tests in Haiti which indicated that he had suffered anal penetration however similar tests carried out yesterday in Uruguay were inconclusive.

In an unrelated case, the five soldiers were tried and arrested by Uruguayan military police last year for a charge of disobedience and truancy.

“They ruined his life. They humiliated him and his life will never be the same,” Mike Pugliese, one of his North American lawyers said. “They used force on him and they are laughing. It’s terrible; I am an ex-policeman, I’ve been a lawyer for 20 years and I had never seen anything so brutal on a young man in my whole life. It turns my stomach.”

“You can see the rape in the video,” Edwin Merger, his other North American lawyer, who incidentally has been representing Haiti’s former dictator, Francois Duvalier, for years, said. “If you don’t realise what’s happening in this video, you’re not watching television.”

One of the defence lawyers, Gustavo Bordes, spoke to Uruguayan daily El País after the day’s proceedings and said that there were “clear and flagrant contradictions” and that the case was “unsustainable from every point of view.”

Protests against MINUSTAH

Johnny Jean and his family were met by his supporters outside the court as well as dozens of people who were protesting about the UN’s role in Haiti.

“The Haitian people live in misery and UN spends millions of dollars to keep occupation troops in Haiti,” a Haitian student living in Uruguay told El País.

His is an opinion is shared by many who believe the UN is doing more harm than good. “The Haitians say that the UN troops are only there to repress the people, a people that doesn’t accept the really miserable and exploitative situation in which they live,” Mónica Riet, the spokeswoman for the Coordination of the Removal of Troops from Haiti, told the BBC.

Jean, who arrived in Montevideo on Wednesday, is returning home today while the trial continues.

Haiti ‘rape victim’ testifies in Uruguay-Multiple VIDEO

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:58:13 +0000

Ed Marger addresses the media in Uruguay before court

Haitian teenager who says he was sexually assaulted by soldiers serving with UN gives deposition to investigating judge.

A young Haitian man who accused Uruguayan troops serving as UN peacekeepers in Haiti of sexually assaulting him last year has testified in Montevideo before a judge investigating the case.

The scandal erupted in September 2011 after mobile phone video images circulated on the internet appeared to show soldiers serving with the UN mission sexually assaulting the man, then 18, in the southern Haitian town of Port-Salut.

Six Uruguayan marines were indicted last year on charges of disobeying orders and dereliction of duty. The first charge is punishable by four months to four years of prison, and the second by up to three years in prison.

The alleged victim Johnny Jean on Thursday gave his deposition to Alejandro Guido, the judge overseeing the investigation.

VIDEO OF JOHNY JEAN’S COURT APPEARANCE

Jean, who has spoken to Al Jazeera about the alleged attack, was accompanied by two US attorneys, his mother and a Haitian government representative.

He also came with a translator, as he only speaks Creole.

“The entire investigation is based on a very brief, fragmented film of poor quality filmed on a mobile phone and the testimony of this young Haitian,” Raul Oxandarabat, spokesman for Uruguay’s supreme court, said.

Jean’s attorneys said they had proof that the assault took place.

“What they did to this young man is absolutely horrible. (…) What I saw in that video turned my stomach,” said one of the lawyers, Edwin Marger. ”They deny it. I don’t know how they can.”

“Johnny was examined by doctors. They said he had been assaulted, and that evidence will be presented in this case,” Marger said, adding that some evidence had been given to the investigating judge. ”This is not about money, but about justice,” he said.

ENONCE POLITIQUE GENERALE LAURENT SALVADOR LAMOTHE

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:21:36 +0000

“La vraie reconstruction d’Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l’État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d’un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple.” C.S

A l’ARMÉE CE QUI EST À L’ARMÉE LE PRÉSIDENT MICHEL MARTELLY DOIT ALLER AU DEVANT DES ÉVENEMENTS S’IL NE VEUT PAS ETRE DEVANCÉ PAR LES ÉVENEMENTS

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:20:57 +0000

Je ne m’étendrai pas sur le sujet traitant des militaires qui luttent pour leur rétablissement dans leurs droits. Je ne veux pas le faire pour éviter d’aller sur sentier battu car je crois avoir sinon tout dit du moins je pense m’être assez prononcé sur l’essentiel qui se résume en termes clairs que ces hommes qui ont réintégré leurs lieux de travail ( leurs postes) sont des militaires encore en fonction vu qu’ils ont été tout simplement et arbitrairement rendus inopérants par une décision inconstitutionnelle nulle et non avenue prise par un chef d’État incapable de maîtriser sa colère. Ceci étant dit: nous voulons attirer l’attention du Président Michel MARTELLY sur le danger imminent qui guette l’avenir du pays, sur le bain de sang qui peut endeuiller la patrie si jamais il ne s’oppose pas à toute forme d’intervention de troupes étrangères dans ce cas d’espèce qui doit être solutionné par la voie du dialogue ou mieux par l’armée elle-même. Le Président MARTELLY, s’il veut résoudre le problème, devra , comme nous avons conseillé, nommer un commandant en chef de l’armée et par la même occasion créer un État major chargé de prendre l’Institution en main aux fins de sa restructuration et de sa modernisation. Ainsi il aura la latitude de référer quiconque voudrait être renseigné sur la question à cet État Major qui sera des lors l’instance chargée de diriger les affaires relatives aux forces armées d’Haïti. ‘’À L’ARMÉE CE QUI EST À L’ARMÉE’. Là-dessus, il n’y a pas lieu de s’alarmer ni de tergiverser. Il devra agir vite, avec lucidité et pondération sinon c’est possible qu’il se retrouve en situation de ne pas pouvoir contrôler les événements à dimensions imprévisibles et alarmantes. La création immédiate de l’État major sera un premier pas majeur appelé à calmer les esprits surchauffés. Le reste viendra après et par surcroit. Dans la résolution de ce problème épineux à traiter le plus tôt que possible, j’invite le Président de la République à prendre lecture de deux textes écrits et signés par votre serviteur : Dans ‘’UNE SITUATION EXTREMEMENT DIFFICILE’’ et dans ‘’MUTINERIE DE MILITAIRES’’, le chef de l’État pourra puiser des réflexions susceptibles de le permettre de bien instrumenter, de le guider, de l’orienter dans ses prises de décisions d’extrême importance pour la vie de la nation. Ces deux articles sont disponibles sur mon blog. Il suffit d’aller sur GOOGLE et dans la barre: écrire LECHAPEAUTEUR pour avoir accès à plusieurs de mes écrits. QUE DIEU SOIT AVEC NOS DIRIGEANTS ET LES INSPIRE AFIN QU’ILS PUISSENT AU MOINS ÉCOUTER . QUE DIEU BENISSE HAITI ET SES ENFANTS. Maurice CELESTIN – LECHAPEAUTEUR yvonsurpris@gmail.com
Port-au-Prince, Haiti WI twitter: @yvonsurpris http://www.facebook.com/groups/victimedesduvalier/ Les bandes armées et faux Militaires démobilisés ont déclaré que Georges Racine un américain d’origine haïtienne est le chef des Militaires démobilisés qui assure la coordination pour le compte de Michel Martelly

Georges Racine citoyen américain, secrétaire d’état à l’intérieur serait le patron des militaires démobilisés. En effet il est non seulement le bras financier mais aussi c’est de lui que ces hommes en treillis militaires retrouves un peu partout à travers le pays reçoivent directement leurs ordres. C’est-ce qu’a déclaré certains des miliciens roses mécontents de l’ordre d’évacuation reçu cette semaine. A suivre….
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Subject: [Forum culturel] Des hommes en treillis, lancent un ultimatum au Gouvernement de Martelly pour le 18 Mai
Haïti – Sécurité : Des hommes en treillis, lancent un ultimatum au Gouvernement 03/05/2012 10:04:23

Alors que le Gouvernement haïtien tente de trouver une solution pacifique à la situation des individus [estimés entre 2,000 et 3,000] qui occupent illégalement les anciennes bases militaires, certains bâtiments publics et qui ne cessent de défier ouvertement l’État, en circulant de plus en plus souvent dans les rues, en treillis et souvent lourdement armés ; un groupe d’« ex-FAd’H », a lancé un Ultimatum au Chef de l’État, dont la date limite est le 18 mai, pour tenter de forcer le Président Martelly, à respecter ses promesses de réinstaurer l’armée. Lors d’une conférence de presse récente, Larose Aubin, un ancien sergent de l’armée avait déclaré « Nous ne sommes pas des blagueurs [...] Nous allons venir avec force et avec la population, et nous obtiendrons ce que nous recherchons. Même si nous perdons nos vies, nous allons nous battre. Ils ne peuvent pas tous nous tuer. » Dans cette crise, la Minustah est perçue, par une grande partie de la population, comme une force d’occupation et aspire à disposer de sa propre armée. Une Minustah qui envisage tous les scénarios, y compris l’emploi de la force, une option à haut risque comme l’a souligné l’historien Georges Michel, membre de la Commission d’État d’Organisation de la composante militaire de la Force Publique créée par le Président Martelly « [...] les soldats rebelles sont plus populaires que les soldats de la Paix des Nations Unies [...] Les gens sont avec eux [...] Ce serait une catastrophe majeure pour le Président Martelly s’il fait appelle à la Minustah pour sévir contre eux. Ils seront considérés comme des héros et Martelly comme le méchant. Alors une solution pacifique et politique doit être trouvée. »

Les analyses de la Minustah laisse à penser que le groupe n’est pas très bien armé. Toutefois, interrogé pour savoir si son groupe avait accès à un armement suffisant, Yves Jeudy, un ancien sergent des ex FAd’H a répondu « Nous sommes militaires [...] Et vous savez ce qu’un militaire peut faire [...] Après le 18 mai, si le gouvernement n’a rien fait, ils verront ce qui se passe. Nous n’allons pas faire marche arrière et ils doivent nous donner une réponse rapide. Nous manquons de patience, » tandis que des hommes scandaient « La liberté ou la mort… »

Le paiement des arriérés de soldes aux ex-militaires des FAd’H, par le Gouvernement, ne semble pas avoir désamorcer la crise ni calmé les esprits et la situation demeure hautement explosive. Quel que soit le nombre de ces individus déterminés, qui semblent vouloir aller jusqu’au bout pour faire respecter ce qu’ils appellent « leurs droits », le pays n’a vraiment pas besoin d’une confrontation, sous les regard du monde, à un moment où tous les efforts sont déployés pour changer l’image de notre pays et convaincre les investisseurs qu’Haïti est ouverte au affaires.

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Haitian Who Alleges Abuse Testifies in Uruguay

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:19:28 +0000

A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six former U.N. peacekeepers from Uruguay of sexually abusing him in the poor Caribbean country presented evidence to a judge Thursday, and authorities now have about two months to decide whether the case merits a trial.

During a closed-door hearing in Uruguay’s capital, the Haitian identified the suspects, answered questions from the judge and received a medical examination, court spokesman Raul Oxandabarat said.

“It’s not a penal trial but an inquiry to investigate alleged rape of this young man in Haiti,” the spokesman said.

The man, whose case has further inflamed Haitian opposition to the continued presence of a U.N. peacekeeping force, entered the courtroom in the afternoon.

Oxandabarat said the accuser pointed out his alleged attackers. “There was a recognition (when) the marines filed by and he looked at them through a peephole,” the spokesman said.

This “ends the evidence-gathering stage, and the judge has to pass the case to the prosecutor, who will determine whether the marines should be held accountable in the case, and for what crimes,” Oxandabarat said.

He said the prosecutor would have 20 days to reach a conclusion about the evidence, and the judge would then have about 45 days to decide whether to proceed with a trial.

The mother of a 19-year-old man who claims he was raped by UN members

The young man arrived in Uruguay on Wednesday, accompanied by his mother, two lawyers and a Haitian foreign ministry official. The AP is not identifying the man by name because of the sexual nature of the charges.

Last year, the man alleged that he was sexually abused at a U.N. base by six Uruguayan marines who were serving in the peacekeeping mission in Haiti. One of the peacekeepers recorded the rowdy scene on a cellphone, showing the accuser being pinned down on a mattress as a partially clothed marine simulated rape.

The suspects and their lawyer initially called it a prank that got out of hand, angering many Haitians who already had been demanding a departure by all U.N. peacekeepers.

In a preliminary investigation, the United Nations and Uruguay’s navy determined that the man was not raped, but said peacekeepers broke rules.

The marines were sent back to Uruguay after the incident to Uruguay and held in prison for several months. They were released in late 2011 pending the investigation and a military trial.

Gen. Julio Halty, president of Uruguay’s Supreme Military Tribunal, told the AP on Wednesday that the Haitian accuser would not be questioned by a military court. He had said earlier that if the marines were convicted by the military court and sentenced to more jail time than they already served, they would go back behind bars.

The 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti was established by the U.N. Security Council in 2004 to provide stability after a rebellion forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of office and into exile.

The U.N. force is unpopular with many Haitians. A cholera outbreak in October 2010 that was likely introduced by a battalion from Nepal further infuriated critics, touching off riots against the peacekeeping contingent. The cholera outbreak has killed more than 6,200 people since it surfaced, Haiti’s Health Ministry says.

URUGUAY SHIELDS JOHNY JEAN’S IDENTITY, NOT TO PROTECT HIS PRIVACY BUT INSTEAD TO SHIELD THE URUGUAYAN PUBLIC FROM THE TRUE FACTS WHICH ARE REALLY HORRIFYING…THEIR SAILORS VICIOUSLY GANG-RAPED JOHNY JEAN OVER A PERIOD OF TIME AND VIDEO TAPED THE CRIME!!!

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:27:29 +0000

MICHAEL COLLINS

MAY 10, 2010

I have been a complete and total fool!

I did not realize why the Uruguayans were insisting on a sealed courtroom, with none other than participants allowed access. Before Johny’s American attorney, Ed Marger, intervened, Johny Jean would have flown into Uruguay – unannounced -, arriving at 9:30 AM –( if the plane as one time, and it rarely is.) for a 2 PM court appearance, and then placed on a night flight back to Haiti.

Luckily, Johny arrived a day early, and his 3 PM flight…actually landing at 5 PM had no adverse effect.

Johny Jean would be shielded from the public, and the public would be shielded from Johny Jean. The following quote, from a news item, sets the stage for this charade.

This was one of the things Ambassador Romero Rodriguez discussed with Haitian hero Fritz Dorziair as they privately discussed how things could be kept under wraps, during their secret meeting on the afternoon of last Monday.

QUOTE: “Local media showed images of the young man in a suit and tie after he landed at Montevideo’s airport Wednesday afternoon. He was accompanied by his mother, two lawyers and a Haitian foreign ministry official.

The AP is not identifying the man by name because of the sexual nature of the charges.

Court spokesman Raul Oxandabarat earlier told The Associated Press that the man would testify during a closed hearing. Oxandabarat said the next steps in the case would depend on the young man’s testimony.”

What is this crap about protecting Johny Jean’s identity??

AP (Associated Press) has used Johny Jean’s name thousands of times, in its material!!!! Just Google Johny Jean Haiti rape and see the results – probably 500,000 items.

Actually, I have just Googled JOHNY JEAN RAPE and the search provided “About 81,600,000 results (0.27 seconds) “So confidentiality is really not an issue.

It has been spread across the screens of international TV and splashed across the columns of the international printed media!!

Johny Jean’s testimony was what one could expect from a shy black boy, thrown onto the stage in a foreign courtroom full of strangers, speaking a strange language in a nation that has something like 2% of the population BLACK.

What spoke, and spoke horrible, for Johny was the two minute video tape, created by Johny Jean’s first raper. He viciously sodomized – Jean Jean – that’s his name – Johny Jean – it is not secret for the sake of his embarrassment – The first Uruguayan sailor who ripped into Johny Jean’s anus had his friends restrain the screaming, struggling, frightened, badly injured Johny Jean, while he went to take a shower.

After showering, the first of the vicious rapists dried himself of and then returned to the room where his friends held Johny jean face down while others violated him in a horrible way as the first criminal videotaped the sex assault that would forever destroy Johny John, and his family, throughout the small community of Port Salut.

The rapists’ laughter adds to the insult and very real injuries to Johny Jean

Rather than be recognized as victims, they were treated a pariah because they were an embarrassment to the Uruguayan MINUSTAH troops who spent a great deal of money in the community’s economy.

In other words, Johny Jean’s unfortunate situation caused embarrassment to the Uruguayans and they threatened anyone – the Uruguayans threatened anyone who sided with Johny. The Uruguayans made threats against Johny and the boys who discovered the video.

The community shunned Johny and called him MRS MINUSTAH.

So, it was not the words of Johny Jean that should influence the Uruguayan court as to whether or not a crime was committed. They already knew this from viewing the unedited 2 minute tape, taken by the first rapist, as his friends beat and sodomized Johny Jean to the point that he remained, crippled in bed for two weeks. His injuries were examined by Cuban doctors and they stated these injuries were typical of a forced and vicious sodomization. He was still bleeding weeks later.

Let’s not mince words, Johny Jean was viciously fucked in the ass until he was physically damaged for weeks and mentally damaged for life.

This is why the Uruguayans insisted on confidentiality, in the court appearance. This was not to protect Jeany Jean. It was to protect the Uruguayan public from seeing, and hearing the screams of Johny Jean, as this young man was destroyed by sailors of their MINUSTAH unit.

It is a national disgrace, supported from the top as President Mujica, after writing an apology to President Martelly, and the Haitian people, now says that the Uruguayan military were just engaged in a little horseplay.

There was no rape,

There was no crime.

In other words, Johny Jean and the Haitian Nation are simple Black liars who would, and will never be believed in a nation composed of 88% European descended folk. Uruguay has 2% black members of their population.

Someone stole our unedited copy of the tape but we will acquire another and let you – the world – decide whether or not the Uruguayans are slime in their effort to avoid responsibility in this case. In the meantime, we present the ABC’s edited, blanked out copy It is bad enough.

If they Uruguayans were men – rather than a band of raping homosexuals – they would have settled this immediately and hidden their national inclinations from the world. This could have protected their macho image.

Perhaps President Mujica will come out of the closet and announce his Nations support of same sex marriages.

Let’s make it legal!!!!

Time for MINUSTAH and it raping, child-molesting troops to go home. The cocaine trade and kidnap business will suffer, but we can do without MINUSTAH’s assistance.

Johny Jean’s attorneys, and an observer from Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs were in the closed court. Johny’s American attorneys, Ed Marger and Mike Puglise, attended the tribunal with Gervais Charles, the Haitian member of their team, and Maitre Fortune Dorlean,head of Foreign Affairs judicial department.

The wannabe non-lawyer, Fritz Dorziair was not admitted to the proceedings and sat in the corridor throughout the hearing, like a chauffeur, waiting for his passengers.

It is time for President Michel Martelly, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, the Haitian people, and those throughout the world, who cherish justice, to stand up and challenge Uruguay’s refusal to accept the unsavory facts that their sailors raped a poor defenseless Haitian boy and then wiped their filthy cocks on the Uruguayan flag.

Enough is enough.

JUSTICE FOR JOHNY JEAN, AND OTHERS, WHO ARE RAPED, MOLESTED, OR EVEN MURDERED BY UN CRIMINALS – THROUGHOUT THE WORLD – WHO HAVE IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION!!!