20716: Saint-Vil RE: 20683: Chronologies miss key events like Tatoune's many escapes (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>

Guy S. Antoine startled by the following AP quote:

"Aristide finally had Metayer arrested last year after months of pressure from
the OAS, which demanded he be tried for allegedly burning homes of opponents.
Gang members rammed a tractor into the prison to free him in September, and
Metayer's bullet-riddled and mutilated body was found days later"  said that "
the chronology related in this AP story, from the "mainstream press" and
forwarded by Greg Chamberlain, made me a bit dizzy: what year? which September?
and how many days later? "

Here are a couple of answers to Guy's questions. What year? Which September?
The jail break occured in 2002. Not in September but in August 2002.  As for
the discovery of Amyot Métayer's mutilated body, it occured more than a year
after the jail break. In fact his body was discovered days after outgoing
French Ambassador Yves Gaudeul warned that the political storm he sees coming
Haiti's way is more serious than the weather storm that had just caused so much
damage to U.S. cities.

Greg Chamberlain wrote: "Of course this chronology is wrong on all three
points, as Guy says.... no need to crow about the mistake...The factual
mistakes in the AP story cited are inexcusable, but it would be unfair (and
inaccurate) to say they are frequent".

Frequent or not, INEXCUSABLE indeed this one IS !  AP has been covering Haiti
on a daily basis for how many years now?

What about other omissions in that report. Such as the fact that Amyot Métayer
had several times before his assassination declared being forced by Jean
Baptiste Pierre (Tatoune) to make public statements against Aristide.

In a particular interview published by Haiti Press Network on Sept 10, 2002,
Métayer declared that he was held at gun point by Tatoune and forced to yell
"down with Aristide"

see: http://haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=2635

And how about the alleged direct intervention of the U.S. Government and of
NCHR to help Tatoune and Métayer escape Haitian justice in January  2003 .

See: http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/newsprint.cfm?articleID=3381

Does Haitian Times Editor in Chief and list member, Gary Pierre Pierre,  wish
to comment on this matter since the scoop was that of his U.S.-based
newspaper.  Strangely, this seemingly important information never manages to
make it to chronologies of events published by the "mainstream".

It seems to me important to know whether the unstable declarations of
allegiance we heard from Amyot Métayer were independent of Jean Tatoune' s
pressure on him.  And, considering the fact that Jean Tatoune - a convicted
killer - who was serving a life sentence at the time of the August 2002 jail
break - a known member of FRAPH death squad....being offered help by the U.S.
to escape Haitian justice at the same time that the OAS, U.S. etc... were
adamantly requesting the arrest of Métayer (who himself was to be considered
innocent until proven guilty  of a crime) - is more than a side issue.
Especially, in view of the facts that it is Amyot Métayer ultimate
assassination that would be the galvanizer of the 2004 regime change - where
one Jean Baptiste Pierre (Tatoune) emerges as popular hero walking side by side
with the OAS representative to Haiti (David Lee), the U.S.-selected de facto
prime minister etc...in broad day light.

So, it begs to question Who is Jean Baptiste Pierre Tatoune? Who is he working
for now? Who has he been working for at the time of his jail break, as he took
to the streets of Gonaives one day chanting "down with Aristide" - forcing
Amyot Métayer at gun point to join his chorus (if HPN's report is to be
trusted), then chanting  "Viv Aristide" a few days later and once again "down
with Aristide"....etc...

The more I see all this non-sense going on, and the fact that no one is
reporting on it, aside from Haiti Progres - the more I come to realize how much
Haiti had lost on that faithful morning of April 3, 2000.

2 mo pou Jean Do: laverite ! Jistis !

Jafrikayiti
Depi nan Ginen bon ng ap ede ng!
http://www.jafrikayiti.com


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