22264: Holmstead: Re: 22238: Simidor Re: 22202: Justin: Felux: Re: 22193: (Chamberlain) re 22118: Simidor(fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: John Holmstead <cyberkismet5@yahoo.com>


I don't think it's quite as simplistic or easy as
that. I have talked with human rights workers in Haiti
who have been doing exactly that type of
documentation. They state that many family members and
others in the community refuse to give them names even
when they are fresh kills by the PNH. People are
extremely afraid of further reprisals by the PNH and
para-militaries so they will not give names.

An example of this is Le Nouvelliste published a full
page ad for the PNH a week ago last Sunday that had
the names and faces of Lavalas "baz" leadership as you
call them, targeted for arrest. Two days later, one
human rights group was called to Delmas 2 where the
PNH had just brutally murdered two unidentified males.
They were able to photograph the still bleeding
corpses, take anonymous testimony from witnesses, and
identify the license plate number of the PNH jeep
used. Not one person would give the identity of the
victims out of fear of reprisal against the family.
The only lead was that one person said to look at the
PNH page in Le Nouvelliste.

As for the bodies in the morgue, Daniel Morel and
Kevin Pina have photographs of the corpses the day
before they were disposed of. According to sources
there was also a Reuters photographer and reporter who
entered the morgue with Pina on May 11th. I am told
many of the close-ups show victims shot
execution-style with hands tied behind their backs. I
wonder what they're waiting for?



Simedor states: "It is common knowledge that Lavalas
Family members are organized into neighborhood cells
known as “baz.” To ask for names is not as “asinine”
as Justin would have it, for the simple reason that
the dead, in their “thousands,” have been claimed as
Lavalas party
MEMBERS.  Even if bodies could not be recovered, each
cell (baz) ought to be able to submit the names of
members who have disappeared.  It is common knowledge
that Lavalas Family members are organized into
neighborhood cells known as “baz.” To ask for names
is not as “asinine” as Justin would have it, for the
simple reason that the dead, in their “thousands,”
have been claimed as Lavalas party MEMBERS.  Even if
bodies could not be recovered, each cell (baz) ought
to be able to submit the names of members who have
disappeared."




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