13939: Arthur: Mireille Durocher Bertin...lest we forget (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Charles Arthur writes:

A current feature of posts on the list recently have been calls for justice
for those some of those killed in the last eight years. One of those is
Mireille Durocher Bertin. For the benefit of those list members who don't
know who she was, I paste the following snips:


Haiti Progres This Week in Haiti,
Vol. 16, no. 32, 28 October - 3 November 1998

Mireille Durocher Bertin, a 38-year-old wealthy elite lawyer, who was a
leader of the death-squad FRAPH and a telegenic spokesperson for the
putschist regime. In March 1995, on a busy Port-au-Prince street, three
people ambushed the car carrying Bertin and her legal client, Eugene
Baillergeau, a 46-year-old pilot and reputed drug smuggler. Both died in a
hail of bullets. According to the toxicology report, Baillergeau was high on
cocaine at the time of his death.

Few Haitians shed tears over the death of Baillergeau and Bertin, a former
FRAPH central committee member. All the thanks a dog can expect is a beating,
noted the Creole-language newspaper Libete, echoing the common view that the
Macoute-CIA-Pentagon axis had sacrificed one of their own in an attempt to
smear Aristide and embarrass Clinton.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/203.html

and

The Attempted Character Assassination of Aristide
by Ben Dupuy

As 1995 progressed, friction between Aristide and the U.S. began to surface.
For example, on March 28, three days before President Clinton was to visit
Haiti, a putschist political figure, Mireille Durocher Bertin was publicly
assassinated. The hit was never solved but its highly professional execution
suggests it was a CIA operation carried out to smear Aristide and embarrass
Clinton.

In the U.S. mainstream press, Bertin was lionized as an "opposition figure"
and "an expert in international law." Listen to the beginning of a March 31
Associated Press dispatch movingly titled, "Her Last Days" by Michelle Faul:
"She was setting up an opposition party running her busy law office,
redecorating her home, writing and publishing a newsletter, and making time
to educate her four children." They never say that she defended the slaughter
of over 5,000 people by Haitian soldiers and FRAPH thugs during the coup.
Indeed, she sat on the leadership committee of the death squad FRAPH.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Aristide_CharacAssass.ht

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