various sources: the document circulating on the web for two days (eg, Charles Dupuy, historian)
By Odette Roy Fombrun
Having spent 27 years in exile and aware of the crimes committed by Duvalier, I should raise my voice to demand the trial of former President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier.
During this long exile, along with my husband Marcel Fombrun, and within a diaspora determined to fight dictatorship, I actively fought against the governments of the father and son. Members of my family have paid with their lives this struggle: My brother, nephews, cousins, more simply "disappeared" ... I can not be Duvalier. BUT! Rather than'accabler Jean-Claude Duvalier, which does not diminish the horror of the crimes committed under his government - I choose to acknowledge the post-Duvalier.
Back home in 1986, my lungs full of hope, with a big dream: In 2004, Haiti will be the cultural and historic center in the Caribbean. IT WAS POSSIBLE. Indeed, the departure of Duvalier, we had hands in it all. The country was in a strong position to grow: the world offered their services. UNESCO in mind, with plans to flogging the slave system. She chose Haiti, where abolition was proclaimed in 1789 - to launch with great fanfare in 1989, the Slave Route and the Slave Museum. (I suggested to the Museum at the Palace doors with 365 left. But the rulers being disinterested, UNESCO will do in Cuba). The Oath of the Bois Caiman (1789) compelled to protect and develop the historic Cape Town. 1992 was declared Year of the Indian with Taino art exhibitions; 1993 years of the abolition of slavery .... In 2004 Haiti tape Kanpai. I do not see how in 2004, Haiti is not the cultural and historic center in the Caribbean.
Imagine my profound disappointment
- to see government after government destroy all the great opportunities that were available and the country down to see us floundering in a stinking mud!
- to see that human rights-for which we had fought so hard - were violated with impunity. While we dance the carnival, macoutes invisible exert physical violence, imprisonments, deportations, kidnappings ...
- to realize that, for corruption, while the Duvalier family and some relatives were only to plunder the funds rather solid state, corruption has become so pervasive that one wonders how elected will have enough strength to combat it, even put end.
- to live day after day the physical destruction of the country: 'anarchic exploitation of sand quarries, shantytowns overlooking the wild hills of Petion-Ville and capital, so that when I arrived in 1986, these hills were forested, green, not frames.
As for the division, it suffices to note that despite the tragedy of 12 January, had 70 political parties and 39 presidential candidates to realize that there is no agreement, no grouping. And they all say nationalists, while they are almost all selfish, egocentric. Despite all the urgent appeals of Konbitisme: no konbites national development, not konbites construction. Governments are activists, populists, crippled by hatred and revenge. Instead of a Mandela, peacemaker, unifier, we were geniuses of the division, to the point today to see our independence threatened because of fraudulent elections.
Listening to Marie Claude France, (heard on radio Kiskeya January 21) Like me, she is less concerned to try Jean-Claude Duvalier to complain against those who followed him, to discuss the crimes they committed against those who could not escape: the use of the hated Father Lebrun, destruction and looting wild, not to mention the beatings, imprisonment, expulsion of journalists. ... She said obviously the multiple murders including that of his father that of Jean Dominique. She also denounced the shantytowns of the capital and one of the hills overlooking the capital and Petion-Ville: physical assassination removes any possibility of development of these two cities.
Listening Liliane (seen and heard on national TV after the arrival of Jean-Claude Duvalier). Like me, she did not think we fulfilled our duty to remember. In 1986, the Government had invited to the Fort Dimanche a museum of horrors committed by the Duvalier. There was an exhibition at City Hall in thousands of photos of victims of the Duvalier. They have placed in the Museum and added all the written evidence, such as those we make today across all media.
If counsel had invited the victims Upcoming their complaints and, further, to renew them, the successors of the Duvalier would have thought twice before violating human rights, knowing they could be charged with crimes against humanity, with the threat of be tried in international court in The Hague. And our young, having before their eyes these horrors, would not have shouted: "Vive Duvalier."
For me, the disappointment is enormous, the incurable wound. Yes! I am deeply affected and it is with difficulty that I continue the fight for a country where leaders do not think countries. I have great difficulties to accept physical assassination of the country and my dream, let alone this division continued at the political level. This despite the threats expressed by our Great Neighbors and involving the loss of our legendary pride, dignity and all that, gradually, our sovereignty.
This no longer interests me to judge Jean-Claude Duvalier. I'm sick because most of what I lived and still live in the post-Duvalier. I say that Jean-Claude came to power 19 years in a bloody established by his father and he is refusing the party bloodbath that wanted his entourage. He has at least that in his defense.
All my struggles 27 years of exile and all my dreams of 1986 were murdered by Duvalier's successors. What do they have their landfills? Is this wretched country?
CONCLUSION: IF NEED TO TALK
JUSTICE MUST APPLY TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE RIGHTS OF MAN, DURING AND AFTER Duvalier.
HOWEVER, DESPITE THE HEAVY FEELING PRESSURE FORCES OCCLTES, I CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR UNION NATIONAL forced me to think a lot KONBITE NATIONAL CAN STILL STAND FOR MY DREAM IS MADE:
HAITI HISTORY AND CULTURAL CENTER OF THE CARIBBEAN.
By Odette Roy Fombrun
Having spent 27 years in exile and aware of the crimes committed by Duvalier, I should raise my voice to demand the trial of former President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier.
During this long exile, along with my husband Marcel Fombrun, and within a diaspora determined to fight dictatorship, I actively fought against the governments of the father and son. Members of my family have paid with their lives this struggle: My brother, nephews, cousins, more simply "disappeared" ... I can not be Duvalier. BUT! Rather than'accabler Jean-Claude Duvalier, which does not diminish the horror of the crimes committed under his government - I choose to acknowledge the post-Duvalier.
Back home in 1986, my lungs full of hope, with a big dream: In 2004, Haiti will be the cultural and historic center in the Caribbean. IT WAS POSSIBLE. Indeed, the departure of Duvalier, we had hands in it all. The country was in a strong position to grow: the world offered their services. UNESCO in mind, with plans to flogging the slave system. She chose Haiti, where abolition was proclaimed in 1789 - to launch with great fanfare in 1989, the Slave Route and the Slave Museum. (I suggested to the Museum at the Palace doors with 365 left. But the rulers being disinterested, UNESCO will do in Cuba). The Oath of the Bois Caiman (1789) compelled to protect and develop the historic Cape Town. 1992 was declared Year of the Indian with Taino art exhibitions; 1993 years of the abolition of slavery .... In 2004 Haiti tape Kanpai. I do not see how in 2004, Haiti is not the cultural and historic center in the Caribbean.
Imagine my profound disappointment
- to see government after government destroy all the great opportunities that were available and the country down to see us floundering in a stinking mud!
- to see that human rights-for which we had fought so hard - were violated with impunity. While we dance the carnival, macoutes invisible exert physical violence, imprisonments, deportations, kidnappings ...
- to realize that, for corruption, while the Duvalier family and some relatives were only to plunder the funds rather solid state, corruption has become so pervasive that one wonders how elected will have enough strength to combat it, even put end.
- to live day after day the physical destruction of the country: 'anarchic exploitation of sand quarries, shantytowns overlooking the wild hills of Petion-Ville and capital, so that when I arrived in 1986, these hills were forested, green, not frames.
As for the division, it suffices to note that despite the tragedy of 12 January, had 70 political parties and 39 presidential candidates to realize that there is no agreement, no grouping. And they all say nationalists, while they are almost all selfish, egocentric. Despite all the urgent appeals of Konbitisme: no konbites national development, not konbites construction. Governments are activists, populists, crippled by hatred and revenge. Instead of a Mandela, peacemaker, unifier, we were geniuses of the division, to the point today to see our independence threatened because of fraudulent elections.
Listening to Marie Claude France, (heard on radio Kiskeya January 21) Like me, she is less concerned to try Jean-Claude Duvalier to complain against those who followed him, to discuss the crimes they committed against those who could not escape: the use of the hated Father Lebrun, destruction and looting wild, not to mention the beatings, imprisonment, expulsion of journalists. ... She said obviously the multiple murders including that of his father that of Jean Dominique. She also denounced the shantytowns of the capital and one of the hills overlooking the capital and Petion-Ville: physical assassination removes any possibility of development of these two cities.
Listening Liliane (seen and heard on national TV after the arrival of Jean-Claude Duvalier). Like me, she did not think we fulfilled our duty to remember. In 1986, the Government had invited to the Fort Dimanche a museum of horrors committed by the Duvalier. There was an exhibition at City Hall in thousands of photos of victims of the Duvalier. They have placed in the Museum and added all the written evidence, such as those we make today across all media.
If counsel had invited the victims Upcoming their complaints and, further, to renew them, the successors of the Duvalier would have thought twice before violating human rights, knowing they could be charged with crimes against humanity, with the threat of be tried in international court in The Hague. And our young, having before their eyes these horrors, would not have shouted: "Vive Duvalier."
For me, the disappointment is enormous, the incurable wound. Yes! I am deeply affected and it is with difficulty that I continue the fight for a country where leaders do not think countries. I have great difficulties to accept physical assassination of the country and my dream, let alone this division continued at the political level. This despite the threats expressed by our Great Neighbors and involving the loss of our legendary pride, dignity and all that, gradually, our sovereignty.
This no longer interests me to judge Jean-Claude Duvalier. I'm sick because most of what I lived and still live in the post-Duvalier. I say that Jean-Claude came to power 19 years in a bloody established by his father and he is refusing the party bloodbath that wanted his entourage. He has at least that in his defense.
All my struggles 27 years of exile and all my dreams of 1986 were murdered by Duvalier's successors. What do they have their landfills? Is this wretched country?
CONCLUSION: IF NEED TO TALK
JUSTICE MUST APPLY TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE RIGHTS OF MAN, DURING AND AFTER Duvalier.
HOWEVER, DESPITE THE HEAVY FEELING PRESSURE FORCES OCCLTES, I CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR UNION NATIONAL forced me to think a lot KONBITE NATIONAL CAN STILL STAND FOR MY DREAM IS MADE:
HAITI HISTORY AND CULTURAL CENTER OF THE CARIBBEAN.
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