By Professor Gerard Bissainthe
In 1991 Dr Roger Lafontant, one of the great barons of the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was arrested in Port-au-Prince after an attempt coup. While he was in prison under the protection of the justice of our country to be tried, he was murdered in circumstances that remain cloudy. This has deprived us of a trial for serious violations of human rights in Haiti, which would inevitably have been the trial of a regime or a system. Absolutely nothing could justify, or even condone such murder.
Today many are calling the arrest of former President Jean-Claude Duvalier in power to judge him, because he certainly accountable to the nation. But as we must tell us all realism and lucidity that a case against Jean-Claude Duvalier will inevitably be a case against a regime or a system, the chances that the trial proceed in good standing are much reduced (2). It is rather a mort (1) against a man who was as much a victim executioner: an executioner that rumor accused of many serious crimes at least condoned by his administration, but at the same time a victim of machinations national and international who have used it for nefarious purposes and motives. Implications and interference of two nations particular, namely the United States and France, in the management of the Haitian nation and jean-Claudian regime were regular, often deep and well known (3).
Individuals and organizations say their frustration at the fact that major crimes are rarely punished in Haiti, at least from a legal punishment. It seems that one can read between the lines in our history a sort of rule definable as follows: when a great crime in Haiti has foreign roots or at least mixed (Haitian and foreign), its legal impunity is virtually assured. And we will certainly not to notice the moral variable geometry (including the "variable" must depend on the roadmap received from sponsors) in many organizations say human rights that demand, loudly and rightly so, that Jean-Claude Duvalier is held, when, for example, they had never expressed a shred of criticism against the embargo imposed on Haiti by President Bush and continued by President Clinton, an embargo which, inter alia, Cardinal of Santo Domingo, Primate of the Americas, said urbi et orbi indignantly that he was "the most barbaric, inhuman, the most cruel of all the abuses of brute force. "The financial blinders are always more effective.
I say loud and clear that I think Jean-Claude Duvalier is ever to be tried for abuses including the rumor charged. But at the same time we will have that day have the courage to put his side on the dock all those individuals or organizations or States, against whom serious charges of complicity with the regime jean-Claudian. To paraphrase Cornelius, "When the arm has sinned, it punishes the head." And the head is often at the edges of "impassive rivers" of the North.
justice, national or international, must be one and exactly the same for everyone.
Gerard Bissainthe
Professor Emeritus of City University of New York
elected International President of the Forum Francophone International
gerardbissainthe@gmail.com
http://www.blocnotes-gbissainthe.com/
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( 1 .-) After the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, there were one or two in Haiti made trial of the pillars of the dictatorship. It is true that large fish were quickly taken off or had suddenly seen the light hello to the morning of the day of liberation and joined the liberators. There was especially against the culprits, real or pretended, that the regime types of mort who took the name "déchouquages" or "Pere Lebrun" and were mostly of lynchings by cremation in the public square . Far from condemning a member of the CNRS of France named Laennec Hurbon even wrote this sentence remained notorious, never corrected and never disavowed, namely: "The Pere Lebrun [therefore hear the lynching by cremation] is a requirement of strict justice. "After such a moral bond of an inhumane and barbaric by someone you had a right to expect sound advice from collective behavior in dramatic circumstances in our history, there is not surprising that there is in us beings who practice the most brutal violence, when it suits them. Haitians, like all people are capable of the worst atrocities, but they do not need that moralists sent by prestigious foreign institutions, encouraging them.
(2 .-) was seen, for example, how the case against former Chilean President Pinochet has dragged on for years to actually finish fishtail.
(3 .-) If the U.S. interference in Haitian affairs are seen as a kind of de facto protectorate, which has pseudo-legal justification as the Monroe Doctrine, a mere showing, for example, the which was almost organic involvement of France in the scheme jean-Claudian: Haitian writer Roger Gaillard fire was for a very long time without qualms editor very zealous government newspaper jean-Claudian "New World". At the same time France had made him, without qualms, too, a prominent member of the High Council of Francophonie, an organization that operates informally (very bad) business language and international culture of the French state. But here no need to hide the face, "States are cold monsters," De Gaulle dixit.
In 1991 Dr Roger Lafontant, one of the great barons of the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was arrested in Port-au-Prince after an attempt coup. While he was in prison under the protection of the justice of our country to be tried, he was murdered in circumstances that remain cloudy. This has deprived us of a trial for serious violations of human rights in Haiti, which would inevitably have been the trial of a regime or a system. Absolutely nothing could justify, or even condone such murder.
Today many are calling the arrest of former President Jean-Claude Duvalier in power to judge him, because he certainly accountable to the nation. But as we must tell us all realism and lucidity that a case against Jean-Claude Duvalier will inevitably be a case against a regime or a system, the chances that the trial proceed in good standing are much reduced (2). It is rather a mort (1) against a man who was as much a victim executioner: an executioner that rumor accused of many serious crimes at least condoned by his administration, but at the same time a victim of machinations national and international who have used it for nefarious purposes and motives. Implications and interference of two nations particular, namely the United States and France, in the management of the Haitian nation and jean-Claudian regime were regular, often deep and well known (3).
Individuals and organizations say their frustration at the fact that major crimes are rarely punished in Haiti, at least from a legal punishment. It seems that one can read between the lines in our history a sort of rule definable as follows: when a great crime in Haiti has foreign roots or at least mixed (Haitian and foreign), its legal impunity is virtually assured. And we will certainly not to notice the moral variable geometry (including the "variable" must depend on the roadmap received from sponsors) in many organizations say human rights that demand, loudly and rightly so, that Jean-Claude Duvalier is held, when, for example, they had never expressed a shred of criticism against the embargo imposed on Haiti by President Bush and continued by President Clinton, an embargo which, inter alia, Cardinal of Santo Domingo, Primate of the Americas, said urbi et orbi indignantly that he was "the most barbaric, inhuman, the most cruel of all the abuses of brute force. "The financial blinders are always more effective.
I say loud and clear that I think Jean-Claude Duvalier is ever to be tried for abuses including the rumor charged. But at the same time we will have that day have the courage to put his side on the dock all those individuals or organizations or States, against whom serious charges of complicity with the regime jean-Claudian. To paraphrase Cornelius, "When the arm has sinned, it punishes the head." And the head is often at the edges of "impassive rivers" of the North.
justice, national or international, must be one and exactly the same for everyone.
Gerard Bissainthe
Professor Emeritus of City University of New York
elected International President of the Forum Francophone International
gerardbissainthe@gmail.com
http://www.blocnotes-gbissainthe.com/
_________________________________________________
( 1 .-) After the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, there were one or two in Haiti made trial of the pillars of the dictatorship. It is true that large fish were quickly taken off or had suddenly seen the light hello to the morning of the day of liberation and joined the liberators. There was especially against the culprits, real or pretended, that the regime types of mort who took the name "déchouquages" or "Pere Lebrun" and were mostly of lynchings by cremation in the public square . Far from condemning a member of the CNRS of France named Laennec Hurbon even wrote this sentence remained notorious, never corrected and never disavowed, namely: "The Pere Lebrun [therefore hear the lynching by cremation] is a requirement of strict justice. "After such a moral bond of an inhumane and barbaric by someone you had a right to expect sound advice from collective behavior in dramatic circumstances in our history, there is not surprising that there is in us beings who practice the most brutal violence, when it suits them. Haitians, like all people are capable of the worst atrocities, but they do not need that moralists sent by prestigious foreign institutions, encouraging them.
(2 .-) was seen, for example, how the case against former Chilean President Pinochet has dragged on for years to actually finish fishtail.
(3 .-) If the U.S. interference in Haitian affairs are seen as a kind of de facto protectorate, which has pseudo-legal justification as the Monroe Doctrine, a mere showing, for example, the which was almost organic involvement of France in the scheme jean-Claudian: Haitian writer Roger Gaillard fire was for a very long time without qualms editor very zealous government newspaper jean-Claudian "New World". At the same time France had made him, without qualms, too, a prominent member of the High Council of Francophonie, an organization that operates informally (very bad) business language and international culture of the French state. But here no need to hide the face, "States are cold monsters," De Gaulle dixit.
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