22535: Fenton: Yvon Neptune "Arrested" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Anthony Fenton <apfenton@ualberta.ca>

Yvon Neptune Arrested, June 27, 2004

Last week, the Constitutionally appointed Prime Minister of Haiti, Yvon
Neptune, courageously came out of hiding after his initial first statement
demanding an investigation of the Coup D'etat back in early March, 2004
and publicly denounced the systemic political repression of the Haitian
people by the un-elected Latortue U.S.-backed regime.

This morning, Sunday, June 27, 2004, at 10:00 am, Yvon Neptune, Haiti's
legitimate Prime Minister was arrested by the imported U.S. dictator,
Gerald Latortue.

Meanwhile, the likes of Jean Tatoune and Guy Philippe, who have
murdered countless Haitian civilians, roam Haiti freely, administering
"justice" and being referred to by the un-elected Gerald Latortue, as
"freedom fighters." Meantime, the U.S. authorities in Haiti, along with their
imported, un-elected and truly corrupt and intolerant new regime, continue
urging all of Haiti's resisters and true freedom lovers to accept their rule
by force and might as a "fait accompli;" to accept impunity and
lawlessness; to remain silent and accepting as foreign troops and
un-elected "Haitian" representatives in Haiti sanction the manacling of
5-year old Haitian children, jailing of 69-year old grandmothers; to remain
quiet and passive as they totally gut and destroy the bicentennial
commemorations, foster an unparalleled climate of fear and insecurity in
Haiti; fleece Haitian laborers; to remain quiet as Latortue and Gousse jail
countless Haitian civilians with no legal warrants against them, as in the
case of the ever honorable Minister Yvon Neptune.

Doing his legal tenure, President Aristide was constantly being accused
of human rights violations by people with suspect agendas such as the
Jesee Helms/Roger Noreiga State Department within the U.S.
government and their Haitian technocrats, funded business elites, by
bitter ex-Lavalas sell-outs, death squad mercenaries, bitter disbanded
army and FRAPH paramilitaries murderers. Now these fascists are in
power in Haiti and the human and civil rights debacle they had accused
the People government about, is no longer manufactured. It's real.
Thousands upon thousands more Haitians have died in the last few
months and millions upon millions have been subjected to systemic,
state-sponsored political repression and arrests under this illegal,
US-backed regime and their murderous death squads and illegitimate
police than under all the People's elected governments of the past ten
years.

The Haitian Lawyers Leadership strongly denounces the continued
political repression of the masses of Haiti's peoples. For, despite the lies
the mainstream media has propagated, everyone in the know,
understands that "Lavalas" in Haiti is synonymous with "Haitian
self-determination" and the Haitian poor's "people-power", not
facists-rule-by-force-chimere-power.

Rule by the gun and bullet and by terror, arbitrary, capricious and mostly
warrant-less jailings, are, as these last unendurable months in Haitian
life have clearly proven, the realms of Latortue, Gousse, the
former-opposition, Jean Tatoune, DEA-suspected drugdealer and
convicted murderer Guy Philippe and traditional un-electable business
elites, such as, sweatshop kingpin, Andre Apaid, Jr.

The Haitian Lawyers Leadership denounces the repression of Lavalas
supporters by the business elites, their death squads, re-constituted army
officers and, as supported and tolerated by U.S. regime-change
policymakers, NCHR and the Haiti Democracy Project. We call on
freedom loving people worldwide to denounce this new arrest and
especially appeal to U.S. Congress members, the Black Caucus,
CARICOM, the African Union and the OAS to continue to push to
investigate these arrests, these systemic and state-supported human
rights violations in Haiti and the Coup D'etat's continued repercussions,
especially as evidenced today by the arrest of Yvon Neptune for doing his
job as the Prime Minister of the then free Republic of Haiti in February
before the Coup D'etat and foreign occupation.

We urge everyone from the Network to contact their representatives, the
U.N. and Ambassador Foley to denounce the arrest of the only legitimate
Prime Minister of Haiti and to demand the immediate release of all
political prisoners as well as for the U.S. to stop supporting death squad
leaders and un-elected Prime Ministers. We also ask that everyone write
to their local and national media http://capwiz.com/wa/dbq/media/ or
http://www.americanreview.us/mediadd.htm about the political
persecution and arrest of Yvon Neptune and the continued political
repression and silencing of the true Haitian freedom fighters and
democracy supporters in Haiti.

When you write to the media, U.S. Congress, CARICOM and the OAS, give
the example of the arrest of Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, So Ann, the
illegal home invasion/arrest at the home of the Mayor of Milo; the illegal
disbanding and killings during the May 18, 2004 demonstration; the 3,000
Haitians killed by the death squads in their head long run to rule Haiti by
the gun; the inestimable property destruction; countless internal refugees
in hiding for fear of the sort of arrest we see with this Yvon Neptune
persecution. Urge that CARICOM stand firm in not recognizing the
Latortue government and in denouncing these grave, illegal and
unconscionable attempts to re-enslave the Haitian public through
dictatorship.

Urge that OAS begin its investigation of the massacre of Haiti's
democracy by a tiny, un-electable opposition along with their well-armed
outside forces and death squads now ruling Haiti and imprisoning any
and all peaceful resisters and the Haitian people's duly authorized
defenders of Haitian sovereignty.

Marguerite Laurent
Founder/Chair, Haitian Lawyer's Leadership Network

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