26305: Ives: (invitation) International Tribunal on Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: K. M. Ives <kives@toast.net>

We invite all supporters of peace and justice in Haiti to attend the opening 
session of the International Tribunal on Haiti on September 23, 2005 at George 
Washington University in Washington, DC, the evening before the huge anti-war 
march on September 24.
The opening session, which will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. at GWU's Elliot 
School of International Affairs at 1957 E Street NW, will begin a seven month 
campaign to expose to the world the massacres and other human rights violations 
of the U.N. occupation troops, the Haitian police, and the de facto government 
put in place by the Bush administration and to find justice for those crimes.

The International Tribunal on Haiti is sponsored by the Latin America 
Solidarity Coalition and other organizations concerned about Haitian 
self-determination and democracy.

What Will the International Tribunal on Haiti Do?

At the Tribunal's opening session, prosecutors will present a detailed 
background of the February 29, 2004 coup and preliminary indictments. The 
background to the indictment will cover the pre-coup period when the National 
Endowment for Democracy and the International Republican Institute were 
training the paramilitary thugs whose violence gave a pretext for the removal 
of popularly elected President Aristide and created the conditions for Haiti's 
present misery. The actions of the the United States, French and Canadian 
governments to destabilize the Aristide government will be examined. The 
Tribunal will urge, at such time as the legitimate government returns to power, 
that Haiti take those countries before the International Court of Justice 
(World Court) at the Hague.

The International Tribunal on Haiti will also expose, through eye-witness and 
expert testimony, the truth about the daily slaughter being carried out by 
masked policemen with the complicity, and increasingly participation, of the UN 
occupation force. The Tribunal will forward individual indictments for those on 
the ground directly responsible for ordering, executing and tolerating 
massacres and crimes against humanity to the new International Criminal Court 
in The Hague.

A blue-ribbon Commission of Inquiry, led by former Attorney General Ramsey 
Clark, will be announced at the Tribunal's opening session. A Commission 
delegation will travel to Haiti in October to take eye-witness testimony and to 
determine what commanders and officials were responsible for which massacres 
and other crimes.

Attend the Tribunal and then March against Occupation

After the Tribunal on Friday night, please come out for the September 24 march 
which begins at 11 a.m. the next morning at the White House. The principal 
slogan of the demonstration, which will bring out hundreds of thousands, is 
"End Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti..." With Haiti in the 
spotlight, we hope to see a large and vocal Haitian contingent.

Buses from New York City

Round-trip bus fare from New York and New Jersey to the Tribunal is only $10. 
Buses will be leaving at 12 noon from the following locations:

Brooklyn at Grand Army Plaza (Flatbush & Eastern Parkway)
Queens at Duch Travel, Linden Boulevard & 221st Street
Irvington, NJ at Nye Avenue, corner Springfield & Stuyvesant

The buses which will leave at noon on September 23 and return on the evening of 
September 24 after the march. We have arranged sleeping arrangements for those 
who need them at churches in Washington, DC.  for those who don't have other 
accommodations.

Washington Metro stop: Foggy Bottom on the Blue/Orange line.

Tickets, flyers or more info: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (212) 533-0417, Fanm Lakay 
(718) 512-5173, Haïti Progrès (718) 434-8100, International Action Center (212) 
633-6646, KAKOLA (718) 629-4050, Nicaragua Network (202) 544-9355

Tickets also available at: (Brooklyn) Diaspo Television (718) 576-2667, Radio 
Lakay (718) 469-4671, Radio Pa Nou (718) 940-3861 (Queens) Duch Travel (718) 
527-8594 (Irvington, NJ) Marché Lacaille (973) 374-9697

Kim Ives
Coordinator, International Tribunal on Haiti