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6070: arrests of Joannis Jackson and others in US (fwd)
From: Mary Durran <durranmary@hotmail.com>
Does anyone have an update on the news story below, on the arrest of Joannis
Jackson et al?
Is the deportation going ahead, as reported in the news story? Does anyone
know if Haiti has re-requested the extradition of Jackson since his in
absentia conviction for the Izmery murder?
thanks
Mary Durran
Nov. 20 - Fourteen former "members of armed forces and paramilitary
organizations " were arrested last week in Miami (Florida) for
violations of
human right made before their arrival to the United States, acording
to an
official source. The American Immigration Service (INS) specified in
an
official statement that among the arrested people implicated in
"kidnapping,
torture and assassinations", are citizens "of Haiti, Peru, Honduras
and
Angola". They will be subject to deportation procedures.
Captain Jackson Joanis, officer in charge of the Haitian Anti-gang
police
unit under the military dictatorship between 1991 and 1994, figures
on the
list of the detained people provided by the INS of Miami. In 1995,
Joanis was
convicted in absentia for the killing of Antoine Izmery, a
businessman and
active supporter of then-President Jean Bertrand Aristide. A Haitian
court
sentenced Jackson to life in prison.
Also included among those arested by the INS in Broward and Palm
Beach
counties were former members of the infamous Tonton Macoutes in
Haiti, a
militia that supported the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and
has been
accused of killing thousands of civilians.
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