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14488: Blanchet: International Alliance for Justice for Jean Dominique (fwd)



From: Max Blanchet <MaxBlanchet@worldnet.att.net>

INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE FOR JEAN DOMINIQUE

January 8, 2003

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
President, Republic of Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Dear President Aristide:

We, the undersigned members of the International Alliance
for Justice for Jean Dominique, are horrified to learn of the
Christmas Day assassination attempt against Mr. Dominique's
widow, Michele Montas, and the resulting death of her
bodyguard, Maxime Seide.

For nearly three years since the murder of Jean Dominique
and his employee, Jean Claude Louissant, our organization
and others around the world have been calling for justice in
this case. We feared that without a thorough and trust-worthy
investigation, Haiti was bound to experience further violence.

In fact, since Mr. Dominique¹s death, repression of the press ­
including the mob slaying of reporter Brignol Lindor ­ has only
grown. Your government has been ineffective in curtailing this
stunningly anti-democratic movement. Even more disturbing,
this violent repression has often been attributed to groups
associated with your own political party, Lavalas.

Now, the attack on Ms. Montas and the death of Mr. Seide
must be seen as only the most recent example of how the
absence of justice has led to an atmosphere of brazen impunity.

Mr. President, we ask that the indictment in the case of Jean
Dominique and Jean Claude Louissant ­ still not made public
despite government promises that it would be released by the
end of 2002 -- be presented to the Haitian people immediately
and that the killers be brought to trial.

We ask that the Christmas attack on Ms. Montas be investigated
as well.

We ask further that both Ms. Montas and Judge Bernard Saint-Vil,
in charge of the inquiry into Jean Dominique¹s death, be provided
with an assurance of absolute safety by the Haitian government
and sufficient security to back up that promise.

The murders of Jean Dominique, Jean-Claude Louissant and
Maxime Seide, and the assassination attempt on Michele Montas
have once again turned the eyes of the world upon you and your
administration. We urge you, Mr. President, to take advantage
of yet another opportunity for you to provide more than
merely rhetorical evidence of your commitment to justice in Haiti.

Respectfully yours,

International Alliance for Justice for Jean Dominique

Wyclef Jean    Edwidge Danticat     Daniel Wolff
Jonathan Demme    Danny Glover    Jean Jean-Pierre
Julia Roberts     Sidney Poitier    Susan Sarandon
Denzel Washington    Amy Wilentz    Yasmine Abellard
Jorge Aguirre    Glenn Allen    Woody Allen
Robert Altman     Paul Thomas Anderson    Travis Anderson
Guy Antoine     Dominique Arden (France)    Neda Armian
George Armitage    Adrienne Armstrong    Judy Arthur
Lauren Bacall    John Bailey    Eugenie Bafaloukos (Greece)
Ted Bafaloukos (Greece)     Bob Balaban     Bruno Barreto (Brazil)
Ed Begley, Jr.    Hercules Bellville (UK)    Andrea Belokopitsky-Medard
Patricia Benoit     Luc Beraud (France)    Luc Besson (France)
David Blaine    Max Blanchet    Marcel Bluwal (France)
Robert Bookman    John Boorman (Ireland)    Kader Boukhanef (France)
Judith Boukhanef-Haïm (France)    Ron Bozman    Taylor Branch
Adam Brooks    Claude Brulé (France)    Anthony Calypso
Jean Cl. Carrière (France)    Kathleen Carroll    Father Robert Castle
Shari Cavin     Mishka Cheyko (France)    Ethan Coen
Joel Coen    Marc Cohen     Alix Conde
Claude Confortes (France)    Janet Branch Cooke    Roger Corman
Alain Corneau (France)    Jonathan Cott    John Cusack
Leslee Dart    Ossie Davis    Ruby Dee
Michael Deibert     Robert De Niro    Claire Denis (France)
Sophie Deschamps (France)    David Dinkins    Tashi Dolma (Tibet)
Louise Doutreligne (France)    Robert Downey, Sr.    Joel Dreyfuss
Katherine Dunham     Ricot Dupuy    Sister Carole East
Nora Ephron    Vera Feyder (France)    Jacqueline Fils-Aimé
Jean-Paul Fils-Aimé    Tony Fitzpatrick    Milos Forman
Gil Friesen    Alain Franck (France)    Peter Gabriel (UK)
Rene Gattereau    Lizi Gelber (France)    Joyce George
Richard Gere    Amos Gitai (Israel)    Gary Goetzman
Spalding Gray     David Greenberger     Lynn Grossman
J.-C. Grumberg (France)    Hans Hageman     Ivan Hageman
Margareta Haïm (France)    Victor Haïm (France)    Lisa Gay Hamilton
Thomas Harris    Karen Heck    Beth Henley
Laurent Heynemann (France)    Caroline Huppert (France)    Mary Beth Hurt
Amy Irving    Sakina Jaffrey    Gina Jarrin
Margo Jefferson    Norman Jewison     Quincy Jones
Spike Jonze    Nelly Kaplan (France)    Anna Karina (France)
Andy Keir    Wendy Keys    David E. Kelley
Philippe Kelly (France)    Polly King     Stephen King
Alexa Kleinbard     Beth Kling     Alice Knapp
Lewis Kornhauser     Pradip Krishen (India)    Michael Kuhling
Christine Lahti    Pascal Lainé (France)     Vincent Landay
Darrell Larson     Paul Lazar    Norman Lear
Spike Lee    Patrick Lemoine    Pierre-Ange Le Pogam(France)
John Lesher    Catherine Leterrier (France)    Skip Lievsay
Carol Littleton    Sidney Lumet    Norman Mailer
Polly Mallinson (UK)    Eduardo Manet (France)     Michael Mann
Philippe-Richard Marius    Jean-Pierre Marchand (France)    Philippe Mari
(France)  Mathilda May (France)    Jocelyne Mayas    James McBride
Errol McDonald    Craig McKay    Bevin McNamara
Mike Medavoy    Jo Menell    Randall Morris
Toni Morrison    Maureen Murphy-Greenwood    Teresa Mulha
Paul Newman    John Paul Newport    Thandie Newton (UK)
Rick Nicita     Duafe Nkuruma-Kesee    Rainer Nurnberger
Ron Nyswaner     Ol Parker (UK)    Gene Parseghian
Annie-B Parson    Arthur Penn    Suzana Peric
Anna Hamilton Phelan    Harold Pinter (UK)    Johnny Planco
Lucas Platt    Marc Platt    Rachel Portman (UK)
Chip Post    J.F. Prevand (France)    Dominique Probst (France)
Robert Redford    Ken Regan    Natasha Richardson  Emmanuel Rigaut (France)
Tim Robbins    Jim Roche
Arundhati Roy (India)    Peter Saraf    Ed Saxon
Rob Schmidt    Steve Schmidt    Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese    Leon Sevilla    Stella Sevilla
Bob Shacochis    Jim Sheridan (Ireland)    Howard Shore
Ken Starr    Mary Steenburgen     Rudi Stern
Sting    Peter Stone     Irwin Stotzky
Trudie Styler    Rose Styron     Susanna Styron
William Styron    Barbara Sukowa    J.Ch. Tacchella (France)
Mary Tanneberger    Valerie Thomas     Robert Farris Thompson
Jean-Yves Urfié (Italy)    Steven Van Zandt    Edie Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.    Pauletta Washington    Joe Weisbord
Claudette Werleigh    Robin Williams    Alfre Woodard
Kristi Zea    Clorine Zephir

cc:
Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti, S.E Jean Marie Chérestal
Minister for Foreign Affairs & Worship of the Republic of Haiti, S.E Joseph
Philippe Antonio
Minister for Justice and Public Safety of the Republic of Haiti, Mr. Gary
Lissade
Judge d¹Instruction Tribunal Civil de Port au Prince, Judge Bernard
Saint-Vil,
President of the United States of America, The Honorable Mr. George W. Bush
Secretary of State of the United States of America, The Honorable Colin L.
Powell
US Ambassador to Haiti, Mr. Brian Dean Curran
Prime Minister of France, Mr. Lionel Jospin
Foreign Minister of France, Mr. Hubert Vedrine
French Ambassador to Haiti, S.E Yves Gaudeul
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Rt Hon. Tony Blair
Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, The Rt Hon.
Robin Cook
UK Ambassador to Haiti, Mr. D.G. Ward
Secretary-General, United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan
Executive Director of Amnesty International, Mr. Bill Schulz
Chairman of Human Rights Watch, Mr. Jonathan Fanton
Secretary General of Reporters Sans Frontières, Mr. Robert Menard
Editor in Chief of Index on Censorship (UK), Ms. Ursula Owen
Assistant Director General of UNESCO Programme for Freedom of Expression,
Democracy and Peace, Mr. Alain Modoux
Executive Director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights, Ms. Dina
Paul Parks
Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Ms. Ann Kooper
Ana Arana, The Inter-American Press Association
PEN American Center
Michael Tigar, Esq.
Ramsey Clark, Esq.
Membership of the International Alliance for Justice for Jean Dominique