MINUSTAH misión de la ONU, tortura y ahorca en Haití.

MINUSTAH misión de la ONU, tortura y ahorca en Haití JUBILEO SUR/AMÉRICAS jubileosur@gmail.com www.jubileosuramericas.org Cuba con sus médicos voluntarios contiene, cura, educa y da vida.  La ONU y su MINUSTAH invade, amenaza, viola, tortura y asesina.     El Museo Ernesto Che Guevara de Buenos Aires se honra en tener a su médico becado y recibido en Cuba, actuando como si fuera cubano y humano.   Eladio González  Toto  director     En nombre de Jubileo Sur/Américas Compañeros/as: difundimos esta noticia que pone al descubierto, una vez más, lo que venimos denunciando hace más de 5 años! La constante violación de los derechos humanos del pueblo haitiano por parte de las tropas de la MINUSTAH. Desde JUBILEO SUR/AMÉRICAS repudiamos este nuevo crimen y convocamos a los movimientos sociales del continente, comprometidos en la lucha por la justicia, a redoblar nuestros esfuerzos en el marco de la Campaña de Solidaridad con HAITÍ que se viene impulsando, y que tiene dos fechas próximas de movilización:   - 15 de octubre: se discute en la ONU la renovación del mandato de la MINUSTAH en Haití. ¡Fuera las tropas de ocupación, por una HAITÍ libre y soberano! - 12 de enero: se cumple el 1er aniversario del terrible terremoto que asolo el país y la posterior remilitarización. ¡Anulación incondicional de la deuda financiera reclamada a HAITÍ!   Que la reconstrucción del país no sea el gran negocio de las empresas multinacionales! Recursos y cooperación para salud, educación, soberanía alimentaria y vivienda en beneficio del pueblo haitiano! Basta de falsas promesas e hipocrecía! PAGUEN la deuda histórica, social y ecológica con el pueblo haitiano!   Para solicitar información o sumarse a la campaña puede escribir a jubileosur@gmail.com                 Gracias!   +++++++++++++++++++++++++   Sábado 28 de agosto del 2010 Un menor de edad fue hallado ahorcado en una base de la ONU en Haití La MINUSTAH, la misión de la ONU, acusada de tortura y ahorcamiento en Haití   Por Cyrus Sibert, Cabo Haitiano, Haití Le Ré.Cit. (Réseau Citadelle) : www.reseaucitadelle.blogspot.com Radio Souvenir FM, 106.1 : souvenirfm@yahoo. fr   El hallazgo del cuerpo de Gérald Jean Gilles, un joven de apenas 16 años, ahorcado dentro de la base FPU de la MINUSTAH ubicada en el centro del Cabo Haitiano, el 17 de agosto del 2010, es un golpe fuerte para la imagen de la misión de la ONU en el norte de Haití. El comunicado emitido no apacigua los rumores que hablan de un acto deliberado de tortura.  Los jóvenes de los barrios populares organizaron varias actividades de protesta contra la MINUSTAH. Según ellos, a Gérald lo acusaron del robo de 200 dólares americanos, por lo que soldados nepaleses lo habrían torturado hasta quitarle la vida. Empleados del hotel Roi Henri Christophe, ubicado en proximidades de la base nepalesa del Cabo Haitiano, habrían escuchado los gritos: "están asfixiándome". Los ciudadanos del Cabo Haitiano están conmocionados por la situación. La hipótesis sostenida por los soldados nepaleses y los demás integrantes de la MINUSTAH no concuerda con el modo de ser de los haitianos. Es difícil creer que un joven de 16 años, que se dedicaba a ayudar a los soldados extranjeros a cambio de comida o de algo de dinero, se suicide luego de ser acusado de un robo.   A través de un mensaje escrito, la Comisión Arquidiocesana Justicia y Paz del Cabo Haitiano denunció las prácticas anacrónicas, tales como ahorcamientos y amputaciones de miembros del cuerpo humano, que realizan los soldados provenientes de Asia en la MINUSTAH.    Firma el mensaje el Padre Nicolas Valcimond, sociólogo y profesor universitario.   +++++++++++++++++++++++++   La MINUSTAH tendrá que aclarar la situación. Los habitantes dicen haber visto algunos soldados comportándose de manera desaforada. Un testigo cuenta que vio como un soldado nepalés detuvo a un joven en plena plaza pública y lo torturó, metiendo sus manos en la boca del joven y tratando con todas sus fuerzas de separarle la mandíbula inferior y la mandíbula superior, hasta el punto de lastimar la piel de la boca.   La hipótesis según la cual Gérald habría muerto durante una sesión de tortura, asfixiado o ahogado (método del submarino mojado), es creible. La MINUSTAH tiene que demostrar lo contrario.     Además, en 2008 una unidad de la FPU nepalesa del Cabo Haitiano fue acusada de intento de violación, por una joven que regresaba de noche a su casa del barrio Calvaire Sainte-Thérèse. La organización feminista AFASDA tomó cartas en el asunto. Luego de haber publicado un artículo sobre esta situación, Réseau Citadelle fue contactado por la MINUSTAH para garantizar que iba a lanzar una investigación, castigar a los culpables (si fuera el caso) y a prevenir este tipo de comportamientos en el futuro.    En este contexto, la muerte de un joven de 16 años dentro de esta misma base FPU nepalesa sólo puede causar más confusión. La MINUSTAH no puede limitarse a dar un informe sobre la autopsia. Michel Saint-Croix el alcalde de la ciudad, condenó fuertemente el hecho el fin de semana pasado durante el programa Télé Venus, acusando a los nepaleses de asesinos.    Por su parte, el abogado y un pariente de la víctima acusan a la ONU de haber retenido el cadáver varias horas en una base de Puerto Príncipe, impidiendo que el médico forense realizara la autopsia antes de transcurridas 72 horas después de la muerte, lo que según ellos altera los resultados.   Desde RÉSEAU CITADELLE consideramos que "ahorcamiento" no es un sinónimo de "suicidio". El suicidio no forma parte de nuestra cultura. La MINUSTAH tiene que investigar minuciosamente hasta determinar las causas, las circunstancias y qué soldados nepaleses estuvieron involucrados en este hecho.    En una época en la que se critica a los soldados norteamericanos por sus métodos de tortura en Irak, no podemos permitir que la ONU esconda lo que al parecer son prácticas de tortura similares a las de los servicios secretos como la CIA, que violan los derechos humanos.   RÉSEAU CITADELLE (Le Ré.Cit), 27 Agosto del 2010, 17h10. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JUBILEO SUR/AMERICAS secretaría regional a/c PACS Políticas Alternativas para el Cono Sur Av. Río Branco 277 sala 1609 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Tel. +55 21 22102124 jubileosur@gmail.com www.jubileosuramericas.org entrada de Eladio González Toto a las 15:55 ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

Money buys food, clothing, shelter for Perlitz sex victims Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer Published: 10:35 p.m., Friday, September 3, 2010 1 of 2 View: Larger | Hide Haitian street boys who claim they were sexually abused by Douglas Perlitz in the humanitarian program he established, give a prayer of thanks to U.S. supporters who have provided them with money for food, clothing and shelter. Photo: Contributed Photo / Connecticut Post Contributed Cyrus Sibert's investigative work on the abuse of street children led to the arrest of US citizen Douglas Perlitz, who operated a school in the city. Photo: ST, Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo In a jail cell in Central Falls, R.I., Douglas Perlitz sits pondering his fate as he awaits a Dec. 21 sentencing. On the crowded streets some 1,700 miles away in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, 20 young men who say they were sexually abused by Perlitz in the program he established ponder if they will eat, bathe or sleep that day. "It's breaking my heart," said Paul Kendrick, a Fairfield University graduate and advocate for victims of sexual abuse. "We could feed these kids with just $40 a day. That'll buy them rice, beans and spaghetti. But none of the groups that put these kids in their situation by funding Perlitz are stepping forward to help." On Wednesday, Kendrick stood in front of the main entrance handing out leaflets advising incoming students of the Haitian victims' plight. "We handed out about 200, some were given back. Hopefully the others were read," he said. Speak Truth to Power, a small Massachusetts advocacy group for victims of sexual abuse by the clergy, has stepped forward with some aid for the Haitian boys. The group received about $6,000 in donations, some coming from Fairfield County, in recent months, according to Ruth Moore, coordinator of the project. She said a handicapped friend attempted to hand her $100 after reading a series of articles in the Connecticut Post about the victims' plight. "I knew that was an amount she could not afford," Moore said, "so I graciously accepted $20 from her. Some people really do care about others in need." Kendrick is reaching out to various Fairfield University alumni associations to join him in urging the school to provide immediate funding "for the most immediate and basic needs of the Haitian victims." In recent weeks, Kendrick said he repeatedly has contacted Fairfield University President Jeffrey Von Arx and the Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic charity, both of which raised money for Perlitz's Project Pierre Toussaint, a three-stage program which provided food, clothing, schooling and shelter to homeless street boys in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second largest city. He said neither offered to donate money to his efforts. Von Arx has pledged that the school will not turn its back on the Haitian victims. Rama Sudhaker, Fairfield University's vice president of marketing and communications, said the school is looking for a more permanent solution. She said they are working with the Haiti Fund, which served as Perlitz's funding arm, to find groups that could assist in reopening Project Pierre Toussaint. "The discussions are ongoing," she said. "I wish I could tell you they have borne fruit but that's not the case at this point." Attempts to contact Joseph Miller, of New Canaan, the president of the Order of Malta's American Association, and Michael McCooey, chairman of the Haiti Fund, were unsuccessful Friday. Perlitz, 39, who served as Fairfield University's commencement speaker and received an honorary degree in 2002 for his work in Haiti, was arrested last September and later indicted for allegedly abusing 23 of his students. He pleaded guilty last month to a single federal charge of traveling from the U.S. to Haiti in engage in and having sex with an underage boy. He also did not dispute prosecutors' claims that he had sex with at least eight boys. Under the terms of the plea bargain agreement, his sentencing guidelines recommend he receive anywhere from eight years and one month to 19 years and seven months in prison. Several of the victims are expected to be brought to the U.S. to testify at Perlitz's sentencing. Kendrick praised the work of Cyrus Sibert, the Cap-Haitien radio host and journalist who exposed the sexual abuse back in 2007. His reports led to investigations by the Haitian National Police and the United Nations. After Perlitz left Haiti for the final time, Haiti and the UN appealed to the U.S. to prosecute him. "Cyrus has taken it upon himself to serve as the victims' primary care giver," said Kendrick. "He didn't go looking for that job. It just fell into his lap." In an e-mail to the Connecticut Post, Sibert said he "started out helping just the victims." Sibert used some of the donated money to provide the victims, who have been living on Cap-Haitien's streets and in abandoned cars, "a little house in a slum area -- very cheap, to put them in safe place." He also paid for their registration in school this past week. "I try to get members of their families involved, but most are orphans," Sibert said. "We cannot give them everything they need." As for the other Project Pierre Toussaint students, Sibert said he sees many living on the streets. "It's very sad to see them begging for food," he said. "But we can't support all of them." ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

For the well-being of the victims...SEMPER FIDELIS

Paul Kendrick,

I have launched the school program. Yesterday after an interview with the boys, I gave them money to pay for their school registration. This morning they came to my house with all information about tuition, books, bag, and everything necessary to go to school. I also paid rent for little house in slum area – very cheap – to put them in safe place. Help them leave the street which is an unsafe place; where they use to sleep.

I know that you don't have money. We also don't know if we will raise more funds. As "Haiti Funds" never said anything about the reopening of PPT, with faith, I launch the school program.

Those of us, who are more concern about the suffering of the victims then making money or gaining recognition from the situation, have to continue the fight. I am planning a meeting with Human right office of MINUSTAH at Cap-Haitian to seek if we could get food from WFP (World Food Program) that will help us save money so we can face more obligations.

I will add Douglas' former driver whose name is Boss Mo. He went with us to the beach and proposes his service to help while we are waiting from "Haiti Funds".

Never doubted of my loyalty!

As the Marines say: "SEMPER FIDELIS"

Cyrus Sibert, Cap-Haitian, Haiti.

Protestors demand Fairfield U. aid Haitian sex-abuse victims. Genevieve Reilly, Staff Writer Published: 01:18 p.m., Thursday, September 2, 2010 View: Larger | Hide Paul Kendrick of Freeport, ME, a 1972 graduate of Fairfield University, hands out literature at the North Benson Road entrance to the school on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Kendrick hopes to get the university to provide funds for the Haitian boys abused by Doug Perlitz, who are now without anything since the school Perlitz ran has been shut down. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo Paul Kendrick of Freeport, ME, a 1972 graduate of Fairfield University, hopes the university will provide funds for the Haitian boys abused by Doug Perlitz, who are now without anything since the school Perlitz ran has been shut down. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo Paul Kendrick of Freeport, ME, a 1972 graduate of Fairfield University, hands out literature at the North Benson Road entrance to the school on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Kendrick hopes to get the university to provide funds for the Haitian boys abused by Doug Perlitz, who are now without anything since the school Perlitz ran has been shut down. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo Louis Elnius, a Haitian native who resides in Stratford, shows his support for Paul Kendrick as Kendrick and friends hand out literature at the entrance of Fairfield University on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Kendrick hopes to get the university to provide funds for the Haitian boys abused by Doug Perlitz, who are now without anything since the school Perlitz ran has been shut down. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo Forty dollars a day. That's all Fairfield University graduate Paul Kendrick is asking his alma mater to come up with. That amount, he said, would provide $2 daily for each of the 20 or so sexual-abuse victims of Douglas Perlitz, a fellow Fairfield U. grad once lauded by the school for the charity he founded to help homeless boys in Haiti. That charity -- Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap Haitien -- is where Perlitz recently admitted he perpetrated the abuse, a school that was supposed to be a haven for street youths in the improverished nation. Perlitz pleaded guilty in federal court last month and admitted to having sex with one underage male. However, he did not dispute prosecution claims that he abused at least eight boys. The school has been shuttered and the victims abandoned, Kendrick said. Kendrick and several supporters on Wednesday morning stood at Fairfield University's North Benson Road entrance, handing out a leaflet to motorists entering and leaving the campus on the first day of classes for the new school year. That $2 for each Haitian boy every day, he said, would provide them with a daily ration of rice, beans and spaghetti. Louis Elneus, a Haiti native who runs his own non-profit group providing textbooks in his homeland, was there to support Kendricks. Legally, Elneus admits, Fairfield University probably has no obligation to help Perlitz' victims. "But there is a moral obligation here," Elneus said. "What about helping those kids?" If the university had no problem promoting Perlitz and his program, and by extension the college itself, they need to step up to the plate now, Elneus said. In 2002, the university awarded Perlitz an honorary doctor of laws degree and he was asked to deliver the commencement address. In 2005, Perlitz received the Alumni Humanitarian Award at the annual Fairfield University Awards dinner in New York City. The Rev. Paul Carrier, who led the college's campus ministry, actively raised funds for Project Pierre Toussaint and served on its board of directors. Carrier's whereabouts are unknown now. Helen McGonigle, like Kendrick and Perlitz, is a graduate of the university. She said she was also abused by a member of the clergy. The actions of the college, she said, don't jibe with the Jesuit philosophy of service to others that she was taught in her four years there. "I still have my paper I wrote for Tom Regan," she said. Regan, once a professor at the college, later became the Jesuit Provincial. It was Regan who ordered Carrier to resign as chairman of the Haiti Fund, and resign his teaching position in Greenwich. The paper that she wrote for Regan, according to McGonigle, was about St. Thomas Aquinas' belief that a person should work for the common good and never leave anyone behind. "That's what I learned, and that's what I believe in," she said. Kendrick recalled a visit in January to Haiti and the closed school. "We were walking by a room, you could still see the cots," he said. In a corner, was a private room, Kendrick said. Through an interpreter, former students told Kendrick that Perlitz would come to the dorm room at night, using the light from his watch to illuminate his path. "They'd pretend they were asleep," Kendrick said the boys told him. "Fairfield University's links to this project are extensive," he added. Kendrick originally asked to make his plea standing in front of the school's Campus Center. "This is the first day of class for the fall semester and the university community's responsibility is to focus on opening day activities and the students' educational experience," according to a statement released by Fairfield U spokeswoman Nancy Habetz. "The university continues to work with the Haiti Fund Board and others to find ways to reopen the facilities in Cap Haitien and help support the children who have been affected by this tragic situation." ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

At Fairfield University, praise for Perlitz replaced with silence. Genevieve Reilly, Staff Writer Published: 11:02 p.m., Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1 of 2 View: Larger | Hide Douglas Perlitz, Fairfield University President Father Jeffrey von Arx, and Dr. Paul Farmer at the school's Fall convocation on September 8, 2006. On Wednesday August 18, 2010, Douglas Perlitz pleaded guilty to one charge involving the sexual abuse of a minor boy. Perlitz will be sentenced on Dec. 21. Photo: File Photo / Connecticut Post File Photo FAIRFIELD -- As word got out that Douglas Perlitz had admitted in court Wednesday that he sexually abused eight boys at the Haitian school for street boys he founded, no comment came from the administration at the university that nurtured the 1992 graduate's sense of service and ministry. Paul Kendrick, a Fairfield University alumnus, came to know Rev. Paul Carrier, a charismatic Jesuit priest. Paul Kendrick, a 1972 graduate now advocates for people sexually abused by the clergy. Photo: CP, Ned Gerard / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo Fairfield University spokesman Nancy Habetz said because "it is a legal matter, the university has no comment on it." But Fairfield alumni Paul Kendrick, class of 1972, was as outspoken as he has been for the last two years. "My first thoughts went to the boys in Haiti," Kendrick said, "who are suffering from the abuse." Kendrick said he applauded the efforts of the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's office in New Haven. "We should be proud, I think, all of us, that we're now making a bold statement that American citizens will be held accountable for the sexual abuse of children no matter where in the world they commit those crimes." He was not proud of his alma mater, however. "Disgraceful," Kendrick said. In the last two years, he said, neither the university, the Jesuits nor the Order of Malta have contributed any emotional or financial support to Perlitz's victims. He and other victims' advocates have raised about $6,000 over the last couple of months to provide some food, clothing and shelter for the boys who had attended Perlitz's school. "For two years, they have done nothing," Kendrick said. Project Pierre Toussaint was created in 1997 in Cap-Haitien by Perlitz to provide education and shelter to young Haitian boys. Though the project was not affiliated with the college, donations to the project's financial arm, the Haiti Fund, had been made by, and through, Fairfield University. The Rev. Paul Carrier, who for 18 years was the university's chaplain and director of campus ministry, helped raise funds through Sunday Mass collections at Egan Chapel. He also served as chairman of the Haiti Fund board of directors. Perlitz had been widely admired at the university, serving as the school's commencement speaker in 2002. From 1997 to 2007, the university helped raise $775,000 for Project Pierre Toussaint, according to a report commissioned by the school. Of that amount, about $120,000 could not be accounted for. Hope Carter, listed on state records as the Haiti Fund's secretary, was not available for comment. A call to the law offices of Tisdale & Lennon LLC, the agent for the charity, was not returned. In a blog published on the Connecticut Post's website earlier this year, the Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, Fairfield University's president, wrote that he had discussions with members of the fund's board of directors "to explore how we can facilitate a partnership with charitable organizations on the group to reopen the facilities in Cap-Haitien." While he said any decision to reopen was up to the directors, "we will continue to work with it to help reopen the facilities." In September 2009, the university's board of trustees hired Day Pitney LLP to conduct an internal inquiry about the extent of Fairfield University's knowledge of the allegations against Perlitz and the nature and extent of the school's financial relationship with Perlitz, Project Pierre Toussaint and the Haiti Fund. According to the report, the university administration first learned of the sexual misconduct allegations on May 2, 2008, when a representative from the Haiti Fund called von Arx with the information. While there was a perception that the university was affiliated with Perlitz, Pierre Toussaint and the Haiti Fund, the university had no legal or fiduciary relationship with those entities, the report states.

Offensive de la PNH/Nord, les kidnappeurs sont sous pression.

Offensive de la PNH/Nord, les kidnappeurs sont sous pression. Par Cyrus Sibert, Cap-Haïtien, Haïti. Radio Souvenir FM, 106.1 : souvenirfm@yahoo.fr Le Ré.Cit. (Réseau Citadelle) : www.reseaucitadelle.blogspot.com   La police du Cap-Haitien aurait procédé aux arrestations de plusieurs bandits dans le Nord. Des bandits qui seraient liés au réseau de kidnapping de Willy Etienne, le « Robin des bois » du Nord. D'après notre source, la Direction Départementale de la Police dans le Nord est on ne peut plus satisfaite du résultat de plusieurs opérations de ratissage menées  contre plusieurs cellules liées au kidnapping dans le Nord. Pour ne pas compliquer la campagne contre les kidnappeurs les forces de l'ordre refusent de fournir aux journalistes des renseignements sur ces opérations, tandis que nos sources habituelles nous ont demandé de garder la discrétion sur les informations que nous avons à notre disposition à partir de nos réseaux autonomes d'informateurs. Notre source policière en a profité pour démentir les rumeurs faisant état de 7 kidnappings enregistrés dans la nuit du lundi 30 Aout 2010 du coté de Pont-Blanc sur la route menant à Milot. La situation se complique dans le Nord pour le réseau de kidnapping de Willy Etienne. Le samedi 28 Aout 2010 dernier, son lieutenant dans le Nord-est, un évadé de prison nommé Métellus Nady connu sous le nom de Makendy a été tué dans la ville de Ounaminthe dans la soirée du 27 au 28 Aout 2010. Cette semaine, plusieurs membres de sa bande font face aux assauts de la Police. Avec les informations faisant état d'une convergence de forces entre la Police Nationale d'Haïti et la MINUSTAH  avec la contribution de citoyens volontaires du Nord en termes de renseignement pour mettre fin à cette situation intolérable, nous pouvons anticiper que les jours de la Bande de Willy Etienne sont comptés. RESEAU CITADELLE (Le Ré.Cit), le 02 Septembre 2010, 14 heures 11. ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

Kendrick Press release & another HLLN call for help for the children Perlitz abused

Louis and the groups and Haitio forums, You may know that HLLN has stood up for the children abused by Perlitz and others in Haiti, unlike any other and for quite sometime. We have been gathering information for years in order to bring civil lawsuit on behalf of the children.  We need your support and the entire communities support on this. Back in December, I sent out a piece entitled The Collar of Impunity urging our Ezili Network readers and the entire community to step forward and help with basic necessities for the children. You and I have had that conversation. Unfortunately, only a few people like Kendrick sent monies and food to Cyrus for a few of the children since our initial public and widely circulated call for help to meet the basic needs of the children made December, 2009. Our public information shows that Kendrick's survivor of abuse- group raised $6,000 to date. HLLN has also gone on Haitian radio and asked for donation for the children to be sent directly to Haiti. Today, HLLN has secured a litigation partner and since we don't need to concentrate any further on keeping Perlitz behind bars are seriously studying with our lawyers and investigation experts when to file the imminent civil suit on behalf of the abused children. We are very far into this, very far. The community could help by helping Cyrus with food, shelter and counseling for the abuse children while HLLN continues on the legal path towards Fairfield University, Paul Carrier, and the others to make sure that there is concrete restitution. Ezili's Danto's HLLN will not stop mid-way. We will take this to the end, and warn all those who are trying to sabotage either our work or the children's case to stop.  Anyone interested in helping the children with basic necessities, please contact Cyrus Sibert DIRECTLY. We do not wish to make anyone in Haiti DEPENDENT and will not allow that anyone who helps the children with food and counseling to think they may push HLLN's work aside or sabotage the children's legal case with foreign interference in this case. We hear that since the guilty plea there are at least two US lawyers with no Haiti experience trying to sign up the children as clients because they now see money in the case that HLLN has done much heavy lifting on and have NO RESPECT for Haitian professionals. Folks without ethics can make as if we're INVISIBLE with no problem, no matter that HLLN solicited their help to keep the children alive, not to attempt to bring in their lawyer friends to take our place in the legal arena here! If this happens, HLLN, and somehow the children case is sold down the river, HLLN wants the public to know right now why we were not able to intervene and finish what we started on behalf of the abuse children of Perlitz. This development came to our attention only a few days ago and were told "not to interfere!" by a non-lawyer foreign activists and former abused victim we urged to help the children with basic needs HLLN could not provide that we thought was working on the same side as HLLN. The interference, as we've written, is not from HLLN. (See,Douglas Perlitz admits sexually abusing homeless Haiti boys.) The neocolonial paradigm cannot continue. I don't need to explain to the Haitian community what that means - its clear: Douglas Perlitz abuses for 10 years because he has reward power to assuage the poverty and misery of our young boys with food, shelter, "education." Makes them dependent in the most bestial manner. Then another savior kolon comes along, rail against the abuse, but uses the reward power of giving food, shelter and "counseling" to the children to make the victims dependent within a few months and on a $6,000 investment and suddenly has more expertise on Haiti than Haitian lawyers and activists and the Ezili Network which has been on this matter since 2005. Micro to the Macro and you've got the neocolonial paradigm on the Left and Right. We've got to figure out how to break it when it's so clearly presented. Self-reliance must be nurtured, as well as respect and dignity for all Haitians. Please contact erzilidanto@yahoo.com if you'd like to know how to help in this matter more effectively and support HLLN's work in this case. Without our intervention, it's likely Mr. Perlitz could have been released on bail and never have gotten to plead guilty. Please read Ezili Dantò the The Collar of Impunity. As we've previously indicated, as we've shed the advocacy side and formally taken on the legal side now that Mr. Perlitz is definitely behind bars for good, we cannot be ethically be involved directly in collecting funds for the interim needs of the children. So we urge others in the Haitian community to step up and please assist Cyrus Sibert in this. Thank you. HLLN is securing the plaintiffs at the moment and moving forward towards a formal request to Fairfield University and the others. Help with keeping the children alive that doesn't undermine Haiti self-reliance, sovereignty, human rights and dignity is greatly appreciated. Please support Cyrus Sibert's important work with the children. What is precious here that must not be undermined by foreigners or anyone, especially the newly expert to Haiti, is that Cyrus Sibert and Ezili's HLLN are, in many ways in the opposite political spectrum with respect to the UN occupation and the 2004 coup d'etat. Yet, up until now, we've worked TOGETHER because of our joint concern for the children who were abused by Perltiz. This is our common ground. This Haitian alliance must not be shattered by outsiders "saving Haiti" and we truly hope that remains the case. We asked the communities and the Ezili Network's help in supporting Cyrus Sibert's financial ability to help the children survive until our legal intervention is completed. Thank you. Ezili Danto August 31. 2010 The Collar of Impunity: Sexual abuse of Haiti children by Priests, Charity Workers UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children

Le Gouvernement des Etats-Unis signe un accord avec l'Autorité Aéroportuaire Nationale (AAN) pour une assistance technique dans la modernisation des infrastructures.

Le Gouvernement des Etats-Unis signe un accord

avec l'Autorité Aéroportuaire Nationale (AAN)

pour une assistance technique dans la modernisation des infrastructures

Une délégation de l'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement (USTDA), a récemment effectué une visite en Haiti au cours de laquelle l'Ambassadeur des Etats-Unis, Monsieur Kenneth H. Merten, a signé un accord de subvention de plus de $US 800.000 avec le Directeur Général de l'Autorité Aéroportuaire Nationale (AAN), Monsieur Lionel Isaac. Cet accord, subventionné par l'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement (USTDA), financera l'assistance technique pour sept projets prioritaires de modernisation des infrastructures à l'Aéroport International Toussaint Louverture, la plus grande porte d'entrée pour la plupart des voyageurs et transporteurs internationaux qui arrivent en Haiti chaque année.

L'assistance technique incluse dans cet accord supportera l'AAN dans le développement de conceptions préliminaires d'ingénieries, des budgets de projets, et des chronologies d'exécution pour les sept projets, lesquels exigent une prompte exécution en vue de promouvoir la sécurité et l'efficacité des opérations à l'aéroport. Les sept projets, pour lesquels cet accord d'assistance technique sera préparé, sont la construction d'une piste de déroulement parallèle, le renforcement du système de sécurité à l'aéroport, la construction d'une tour de contrôle de trafic aérien, la construction d'une nouvelle installation de production d'électricité, la construction d'une station d'épuration et de traitement des eaux usées, la réhabilitation des réseaux routiers externe et interne à l'aéroport, et la construction d'un nouveau bâtiment à l'aérogare internationale.

L'Ambassadeur Merten a déclaré, «Cette subvention démontre combien les Etats-Unis investissent dans l'infrastructure en Haïti pour l'aider à mieux se reconstruire. L'Aéroport Toussaint Louverture est la porte d'entrée d'Haïti au monde, et les progrès en matière de sécurité et d'efficacité aideront à stimuler la croissance économique et à augmenter la prospérité».

L'AAN a bénéficié de la subvention de l'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement dans deux projets antérieurs dont une assistance technique au projet de modernisation de l'Aéroport International de Port-au-Prince en 2005 et le projet de formation pour la sécurité à l'aéroport. En tant que bénéficiaire, l'AAN sélectionnera l'entreprise américaine pour l'exécution des projets à travers un processus d'appel d'offre compétitif qui sera publié sur internet à travers le site Fédéral des Opportunités d'Affaires (www.fbo.gov).

Au cours de leur visite de trois jours, les représentants de l'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement (USTDA) ont rencontré des membres du secteur privé et public en vue d'entreprendre les étapes appropriées pour l'exécution de potentiels projets d'investissements futurs à être subventionnés par l'USTDA en Haiti. L'équipe de L'USTDA a identifié d'éventuelles opportunités dans les secteurs de l'énergie et des infrastructures y compris des technologies de l'information et de la communication, de l'aviation, de l'eau, des travaux publics, des ports de mer et des projets de surveillance et de contrôle sismique.

A propos de l'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement: la mission de l'USTDA est de promouvoir la croissance économique dans les pays en voie de développement et à revenu moyen, en aidant simultanément des entreprises américaines à exporter leurs produits et leurs services. En plus, l'USTDA soutient les objectifs de la politique américaine liés aux activités de développement et de capacité de construction. L'Agence Américaine pour le Commerce et le Développement subventionne des sponsors étrangers pour la planification de projets qui soutiennent le développement d'infrastructures modernes et un système de commerce ouvert. Les caractéristiques de l'assistance au développement de l'USTDA ont toujours impliqué les partenariats de construction entre les entreprises américaines et les sponsors étrangers de projets en vue de proposer des solutions concrètes du secteur privé aux défis de développement. www.ustda.gov.

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FLASH !!! : Roiliace Saint-Louis libéré après versement de rançon.

FLASH !!! : Roiliace Saint-Louis libéré après versement de rançon.

Par Gérard Maxineau, Cap-Haïtien, Haïti.
Radio Souvenir FM, 106.1 : souvenirfm@yahoo.fr

Le Ré.Cit. (Réseau Citadelle) : www.reseaucitadelle.blogspot.com

Wallace Saint Louis a été libéré, ce matin (aux environs de cinq heures) après versement de rançon. Il aurait été maltraité par ses ravisseurs durant sa captivité. Un nombre indéterminé de personnes ont été kidnappées, ce même lundi, dans la périphérie de la ville du Cap-Haitien et à Pont Blanc, une localité dans la section communale de Morne Pelée (Milot). Depuis environs trois ans, Pont Blanc est considéré comme une zone extrêmement dangereuse (zone rouge).

RÉSEAU CITADELLE (Le Ré.Cit), le 1 Septembre 2010, 13 heures 21.

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"La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert
Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles?
Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle.
WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

A Visible Presence

From: Paul Kendrick <kendrickpt@aol.com> Date: August 31, 2010 10:14:27 AM EDT To: Subject: A Visible Presence Dear President von Arx, You know, for the past two years, all you ever needed to do was say, "Paul, what's on your mind? C'mon in, let's talk. How can we at Fairfield University help bring aid and comfort to the boys in Haiti who were abused by Perlitz?" It's a good thing, wouldn't you agree, that Jesus wasn't dependent upon the advice of his Board of Trustees and corporate counsel to do what's right and just for the hurting and vulnerable people he encountered? I invite you to join us tomorrow in the blistering heat at the edge of campus. We will be present as a visible reminder of the pain and suffering of the Haitian boys who were raped and sodomized by Douglas Perlitz. Sincerely, Paul Kendrick Fairfield University '72 207 838 1319