30026: Haiti4peace (reply) 30024: Sontaine (comment) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Haiti4peace@techemail.com


Regarding the bogus observation by Georges Sontaine: "Based on having
just read the AlterPress article further, and looking at the sources it
cites talking about gang violence in Martissant..." - I would recommend
he look at footage, photography, legal briefs, rulings and testimony on
victims and families at http://www.hurah.revolt.org the website of HURAH
and AUMOHD.

The organizations have been active in Martissant and Gran Ravine over the
last years (Michael Deibert has contacted neither).  That Georges
Sontaine takes Michael Deibert's article as the gospel truth even quoting
these blanket smears, e.g. "guilty of terrible human rights violations"
as though this would 'even the score' is shocking.  It's impenetrable and
endless.

With personal bias and innuendo Michael Deibert fights a cause to
denigrate the truth - so hard to get at, as people in Martissant and Gran
Ravine do not speak english nor have an international outlet such as
Corbett or AlterPresse.  The best source is actual Haitian human rights
workers that are respected by the local communities in Gran Ravine and
Martissant.  Journalists should meet and talk with these people.

Here is a list of some of the widespread charges, yes, widespread charges
made against Lame Ti Manchet for involvement in killings, charges that
Michael Deibert has never attributed to them in his apologist/polemicist
"coverage" of violence in Martissant and Gran Ravine.


-- 20 August 2005: Massacre at Bernadette soccer field in Martissant
conducted by Haitian police and Lame Ti Manchet.

-- 21 August 2005: House torchings in Gran Ravine conducted by Haitian
police and Lame Ti Manchet.

-- 7 July 2006: Twenty innocent men, women and children massacred plus
three hundred+ torched homes in Gran Ravine conducted by Lame Ti Manchet.

--28 September 2006: Human Rights coordinator Esterne Bruner assassinated
in Gran Ravine after returning from AUMOHD's office. Lame Ti Manchet is
suspected.

--19 January 2007: Photojournalist Jean-Remy Badio assassinated in
Martissant.  Lame Ti Manchet is suspected (friends, family, AHP and Le
Nouvelliste).  Deibert (and RSF likewise) shamefully fail to properly
attribute the charges.


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