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13056: Minsky: Film-NYC Roboteau Trial-9/06- Pote Mak Sonje (fwd)
From: "tminsky@ix.netcom.com" <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>
Friday 6 September 2002
6:30p.m. Transitional Justice: Experiences in South Africa and Haiti
Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East Fourth Street, New York, New
York
Ticket Prices: $9 regular, $5 student/low-income
Box office opens at 6:00p.m.
South Africa: Beyond a Miracle. John J. Michalczyk and Paul Goudreau,
2001.
54 minutes. This one-hour documentary graphically chronicles South
Africa’s
evolution from a harrowing apartheid to a cautious democracy.
World Premiere Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial. Harriet Hirshorn and
Christine Cynn, 2002. 57 minutes. This hour-long documentary shows how a
community mobilized against formidable obstacles (decades of impunity,
corruption, lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, and illiteracy) to
try
and convict sixteen paramilitary members and their associates for their
participation in the 1994 massacre of civilians in their neighborhood,
Raboteau, in the provincial town of Gonaives, Haiti. For Haitians and for
human rights advocates, the trial and conviction was a landmark,
symbolizing
the end of a long history of impunity that for years protected the
political
and military elite in Haiti.
Panelists:
§ Reed Brody, Human Rights Watch
§ Louis Bickford, International Center for Transitional Justice
§ Christine Cynn, filmmaker: The Raboteau Trial
§ John J. Michalczyk, filmmaker: South Africa
§ Harriet Hirshorn, filmmaker: The Raboteau Trial
§ Moderator: Erin Hale DeOrnellas, Center for Peace and Human
Security
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