jeudi 6 janvier 2011

Campaign in pursuit of the truth about ORDER OF MALTA responsibility in Child sex abuse / Cap-Haitien, Haiti.

To My Fellow Advocates: 

 

This is an ongoing campaign in pursuit of the truth. It is a step by step process. It will take time. 

 

Paul

_______________________


January 3, 2011

 

Dear Members and Friends of the Order of Malta,


Earlier today, I was made aware of a letter sent to Order of Malta members by Jeannie and Thomas Tisdale, Connecticut Area

Chairpersons (see below).

In their letter, Mr. and Mrs. Tisdale urged you to block my emails. Before you do, though, I hope you'll give me a few moments to explain what is going on.

First, a bit about me. 
I am 61 years old, married, do not have children and am employed as a financial consultant for a national brokerage firm (in Portland, Maine). My wife, Victoria, and I reside in Freeport, Maine. Vicki is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and has a private practice in nearby Yarmouth.

 

I am Jesuit educated (Cheverus High School '68, Portland, ME and Fairfield University '72, Fairfield CT).

 

During the past seven years, I have traveled to Haiti five times on various service missions. On one of these trips I visited with Doug Perlitz, Executive Director of the now defunct, Malta sponsored, Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) in Cap Haitian, Haiti. Doug and I are both graduates of Fairfield University in Connecticut.

I am also a long time advocate for those who were sexually abused by priests, religious and church workers. When, in September 2008, I learned that Perlitz had been fired as executive director of PPT because of credible and substantiated allegations of child sex abuse, my attention immediately turned to the care, support and well being of the abuse victims in Haiti. In January 2010, I traveled to Haiti to offer support to the boys who were abused. 

 

By now, you're probably saying, so what? What's this all about?

What this is about is that by their words and deeds, six members of the Order of Malta (Hope Carter, Jeannie and Thomas Tisdale, Madeline and Philip Lacovara and Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J.) destroyed the mission of Project Pierre Toussaint. In a nutshell, these prominent and influential members of the Order of Malta chose to protect a child molester at all costs and, in doing so, caused the school in Haiti to close and the kids to be abandoned and forced back onto the streets with no food and safe shelter.

It's important to examine how and why Perlitz was able to sexually abuse children for so many years at PPT and to hold certain members of Malta responsible and accountable for their actions during the time when the majority of the Haiti Fund, Inc. (PPT) board voted to remove Perlitz as executive director. Instead of staying on the board to make sure the school stayed open and the boys were cared for, Carter, Carrier, the Tisdale's and the Lacovara's, among others, worked hard to destroy the mission.

I hope you will decide not to turn your hearts and minds away from the gritty realities of this situation. I ask that you read these and upcoming messages with an open mind and not shut your eyes and ears to the terrible suffering of the Haitian boys who were raped and sodomized.

 

I am often reminded that "contempt before investigation is the greatest form of ignorance." It may be a painful process to go through, but the truth is the truth, like it or not.

Pope Benedict XVI agrees. Here's what the pope wrote in his March 2010 letter to Catholics in Ireland: "Earlier in my pontificate, in my concern to address this matter (sexual abuse of children), I asked the bishops of Ireland, 'to establish the truth of what happened in the past, to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from occurring again, to ensure that the principles of justice are fully respected, and above all, to bring healing to the victims and to all those affected by these egregious crimes.'" 



Perhaps I am being naive in hoping that Order of Malta members will rally to the cause of truth, justice, amends and reparations for the Haitian boys whose lives have been permanently altered by their abuse.

 

I am always available to speak with you privately.

 

Wishing you and your family a joyous and peace filled New Year. 

 

Sincerely,

Paul Kendrick

207-838-1319

 

See below: 1) The Tisdale's letter, 2) My Christmas Eve letter to President Joseph Miller, 3) My December 30th letter to President Miller.

 

 

Christmas Eve, 2010

 

Mr. Joseph H. Miller, KM

President

Order of Malta, American Association

 

Dear Joe,

 

This email comes at an extraordinary time of year ...... Christmas!  For most, this is the happiest of days -- a time to celebrate and enjoy the many blessings one has been afforded .... family, friends, food, and gifts - large and small.  Who knows, this very email may find you sitting by the fire in your living room reading it on a new iPAD given to you by your wife or children .... a real Norman Rockwell image.

 

Joe, six homeless boys from Cap Haitien, Haiti have just left New Haven for another Christmas on the streets in Haiti.  These boys represented the 30 known boys who were sexually abused by Doug Perlitz over the last 10 years.  These six, no doubt, will meet up on Christmas morning with many of their former schoolmates from Project Peirre Toussaint who are also now living on the streets.  The six will tell their stories of being in New Haven where they all spoke at the sentencing of Doug Perlitz.  They will have memories of sleeping on a mattress for the first time and how there was more food to eat than they have ever seen in their lives.  Most importantly, they will tell their friends how they stood in front of a judge in a beautiful, huge carpeted room and each told their personal story of how they were raped and sodomized by Doug Perltiz from the age of 11 or 12.  They may cry as they talk to their friends but they will know that justice has been served and that they were part of an unprecedented and extraordinary legal proceeding.

 

During the sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Cyrus Sibert, a good man from Cap Haitien, who is the radio broadcaster who first reported on the actions of Doug Perlitz, broke down in tears as he listened to the boys describe their abuse.  On two occasions, Robinson Gedeus, who worked at PPT for 10 years, was overcome with emotion as he spoke to the judge in open court about the abuse and the threats and intimidation inflicted on the boys by Perlitz.

 

Sadly Joe, if any child deserves something for Christmas, these children do!  But there's no stockings hung for them. There's no one to tuck them in at night or tell them how special they are and how much they are loved.

 

But, Joe, for as long as you've been President of the American Association of the Order of Malta, it appears that you have done everything in your power to ignore the practical and emotional needs of an entire group of homeless and vulnerable boys who were sexually abused at Project Pierre Toussaint. 

 

Please know that this is the first of many letters and press releases intended to expose you and at least six of your fellow Malta members as the cause of the downfall of Project Pierre Toussaint. 

 

Joe, lets make one thing perfectly clear here: it wasn't Doug Perlitz who brought down Project Pierre Toussaint, it was six members of your Order.  And you, President Miller, have done everything in your power to protect these people... these good friends of yours!

 

The six members are:

 

Thomas Tisdale, 

Jeannie Tisdale

Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., 

Madeline Lacovara

Philip Lacovara 

Hope Carter

 

Here are some facts:

 

1) Connecticut Malta Area Chair, Thomas Tisdale was at the courthouse on Tuesday. Tidsdale didn't apologize to the boys of PPT for writing a letter that shut down PPT.  He didn't apologize to the boys whom he has called liars.  Tisdale didn't bother to thank Cyrus for having the courage to report the boys' abuse on his radio station. Neither did he thank Michael McCooey or the other Haiti Fund Board Members for reporting Perlitz's crimes to the United States government. 

 

Tom Tisdale didn't apologize to Robinson for obstructing the operating of PPT. [Background facts:  While visiting the U.S. about 5 years ago, Robinson stayed for an extended period with Jeannie and Tom Tisdale.  The Tisdales arranged for Robinson to intern at the Tomlinson School in Fairfield, CT.  A close friend of the Tisdales, Barbara O'Brien (a teacher at the Tomlinson School in Fairfield), was told by Robinson that Perlitz was sexually abusing kids at Project Pierre Toussaint. O'Brien did not report the abuse to law enforcement authorities. It would be naive and irresponsible for anyone to think that O'Brien didn't tell the Tisdale's about the abuse.]

 

3) In February 2006, Robinson confronted Perlitz in Haiti and told him to stop abusing the students. In response, Order of Malta member, Malta Chaplain and Connecticut Area Spirituality Director, Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., didn't talk to Robinson for the next two years. (Carrier and Robinson were very close friends prior to this)

 

4) In May 2008, when the then chairman of the Haiti Fund instructed Perlitz not to return to PPT because credible allegations of child sex abuse had been brought against him, Dame of Malta, Board of Councillors member and director of Malta's Youth Pilgrimage, Hope Carter, secretly flew to Haiti for the sole purpose of stealing Perlitz's computers.  Carter was protecting an accused child molester by removing evidence that could have been used against Perlitz in a criminal trial. It was not until weeks later that Carter, when confronted by the Board of The Haiti Fund about her actions, resigned her position as a Haiti Fund board member.  Incredibly, Carter still serves on the Board of Councillors of Malta, the boards of other local Catholic charities in Fairfield County and on the Board of Directors of the Malta sponsored, Sacre Coeur Hospital, in Milot , Haiti, not far from Cap Haitien and the PPT Village.

 

This September 8th letter consisted of 11 bullet points of total fabrication.  The mailing of this letter signed by six members of Malta could only be interpreted as a way to completely destroy the goodwill and good name of PPT.  After the mailing of this letter, donations to PPT completely dried up and the program was forced to close.  [This September 8th letter was sent on the heals of a letter mailed to PPT donors by the Haiti Fund (attached).]

 

6] Several weeks later in September 2008, yet another Order of Malta member, Attorney Philip Lacovara, told Haiti Fund board members that he "knew for sure" that Perlitz didn't abuse children because he, Lacovara, was the chairman of the Priest Sexual Misconduct Committee for the Diocese of Bridgeport and "he would know."  We are now asking the Diocese of Bridgeport to review all sex abuse cases in which Lacovara participated as a board member.

 

Joe, you have known these facts and many others about this case since February 2010 when you became the President of the Order of Malta.  In addition to the facts above you have also been aware for almost a year of the financial improprieties conducted by these members (including redirecting donations away from PPT as well as the opening of unauthorized Malta charities).  You have also been aware that these six people paraded Doug Perlitz, at the time a publicly accused child abuser, to many Malta events including your white-tie investiture dinner.  

 

Most unbelievable, however, Joe, is the fact that after learning of all these facts and probably many more, your first act as President relating to PPT and Haiti was in April 2010 to award Hope Carter a public commendation in Lourdes, France for her "extraordinary work in Haiti."

  

Joe, I have heard stories of the "'old' Order of Malta" and I am aware of the great strides that the Order has made under the leadership of Dan Kelly and others.  It is a disgrace (and I'd like to think of great embarrassment to you) that you have allowed the Order to revert back into an exclusive club where members protect each other at the expense of the Order.

 

You can resist my efforts to get to the root of the problem, or you can face the facts and participate in the healing.  Of course an examination of what went so wrong at PPT and how Perlitz was able to rape and sodomize so many children for such a long time would be included in the healing. 

 

Let me finish Joe, by telling you that I traveled to Haiti in January 2010 to offer support to Cyrus and the boys who were abused. My last visit to PPT was in late 2003 so it was shocking and disturbing for me to return to what is now a ghost town of a school. Yet, I couldn't help but notice the many changes and additions. Thanks to Malta and the generosity of many other donors, the school had 8 new classrooms and was poised for a great future.  There was nothing but hard work standing in the way of a successful life for so many street boys in Cap Haitien.  

The reckless and self serving acts by the Tisdale's, Carrier, Carter and the Lacovara's, among others, destroyed it all. 

 

Please do not mistake my pursuit of the truth as some sort of vendetta or revenge. We need to do everything we can to protect children in the future. We can't fix the problem, Joe, until we fully understand what happened at PPT that allowed the sexual abuse of children to go on for so many years. 

 

However, there is already one thing I know for sure. Certain members of the Order of Malta put their own self serving interests ahead of protecting and caring for the most vulnerable children in the world. 

 

The truth will be told.

 

Sincerely,

Paul Kendrick

Freeport, Maine

207 838 1319

 

Betrayal of Hope: Pierre Toussaint investigation - Connecticut Post

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OPEN LETTER

December 30, 2010


Mr. Joseph K. Miller, KM

President

Order of Malta, American Association

Dear President Miller,

Tens of millions of Catholics have inflicted additional insult upon victims of clergy sexual abuse by their failure to demand redress for the crimes committed against children and the cover up of these crimes by bishops, priests and other Church officials.

I am including you in this number, President Miller because you are showing great insult to the boys who were sexually abused at Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) and to the people of Haiti by your personal failure to hold Hope Carter, DM accountable and responsible for her role in the cover up of crimes against children at PPT.

You have been aware for almost a year, President Miller, of the following facts about Mrs. Carter:


1.   Knowing that there was an investigation being conducted, Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT) Board Member, Hope Carter, secretly went to Haiti to steal two computers used by Douglas Perlitz, but owned by PPT.  Carter gave these computers to Perlitz, thereby obstructing justice and the ongoing investigation. 

2.   Mrs. Carter (with 5 other members of Malta - the Tisdales, the Lacovaras, and Paul Carrier) wrote a 3 page letter of pure fabrication whose sole purpose was to destroy the good will and good name of PPT.  The letter resulted in the drying up of all donations to the program and therefore forced the program to close.

3.   Hope Carter helped redirect donations intended for PPT to other unauthorized Connecticut based Malta charities.

4.   Mrs. Carter paraded Doug Perlitz, a publicly accused child abuser, to Malta events including your white-tie investiture dinner during the time he was being investigated for child sex abuse.

The bottom line here, President Miller, is that Carter did everything she could to help Perlitz hide his crimes against children.  It was clearly more important to Carter to protect the abuser than to protect innocent children. 

Let me see if I've got this right. Hope Carter did everything she could to protect and cover up for a child molester and now you're doing everything you can, President Miller, to protect and cover up for Carter. 

Hope Carter called the abuse victims "liars." She hated them for exposing Perlitz as a pedophile. She retaliated against the victims by using her position in the community to turn donors away, causing the school to be closed and the boys to be abandoned, homeless once again without food and safe shelter.  

 

Who is your and Hope Carter's God, Mr. Miller, that you could so despise these suffering abuse victims? 

The Jesuits taught me that the service of my faith must include the promotion of  justice. Hope Carter had choices. Isn't it reasonable to expect that even though Carter disagreed with the majority decision of the PPT board of directors to remove Perlitz, she would have stayed aboard and worked even harder to maintain and preserve the mission of PPT? 

Please, President Miller, close your eyes and listen to my words. These boys were raped and sodomized by Perlitz in the most disgusting ways imaginable. If the boys didn't cooperate, Perlitz intimidated them by threatening to take away their food or throw them out of school. 

So why, President Miller, is Hope Carter held in such high prestige by you and the Order of Malta that she still holds influential committee assignments?  

We all hope to hear your voice soon.

Sincerely,


Paul Kendrick. 

 

P.S.:


A bit about me. I am 61 years old, married, no children and am employed as a financial consultant (in Portland, Maine) for a national brokerage firm. I reside with my wife in Freeport, Maine. My wife is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and has a private practice. 

 

I am Jesuit educated (Cheverus High School '68, Portland, ME and Fairfield University '72, Fairfield CT).

 

In 1999, I reached out to a group of Cheverus alumni who were reporting for the first time that they were sexually abused when they were students at Cheverus (in the 1970s) by a well liked, award winning track coach. In addition, other former students were reporting that they were sexually abused by a Jesuit teacher. I began advocating on behalf of the victims, calling for the former Cheverus students to be treated with compassion and understanding. Unfortunately, Cheverus and diocese officials were treating the victims as if they were the enemy. I have continued to advocate on behalf of abuse victims since that time.

 

In 2002, my wife and I participated in a 10 day "Ignatian Immersion Experience" trip to Bolivia. We were immersed in the economy, culture and poverty of the poorest country in South America. The Jesuits were our hosts.

 

During the past ten years: I have served as a volunteer board member for a domestic violence prevention agency (4 yrs.). I have volunteered answering phones once a week on a social service agency's confidential 24 hour "crisis line" (4 yrs.) and served as a volunteer for the Trauma Intervention Program (volunteers are mostly dispatched to scenes of death. Each volunteer is "on call" for three 12 hour shifts each month (2 yrs.). During the past seven years, I have traveled to Haiti five times.


Décès de Maître Joseph L PRÉVOST dit Zo PRÉVOST, âgé de 73 ans, le dimanche 2 janvier 2011 à 3 heures 20 de l’après-midi en sa résidence privée.

Le Christ m'a régénéré, Jéhovah Dieu m'a sauvé et son Esprit m'a soutenu. J'espère le voir un jour et je vous convie à faire de lui votre ami. Ces mots expriment l'espérance d'un ami, d'un chercheur, d'un patriarche, d'un patriote, d'un amant du Cap : Maître Joseph Léonce PRÉVOST Connu sous le nom de Zo PRÉVOST.

Maître Joseph L PRÉVOST dit Zo PRÉVOST, âgé de 73 ans, est décédé le dimanche 2 janvier 2011 à 3 heures 20 de l'après-midi en sa résidence privée. Ce patriarche laisse dans l'affliction : sa femme née Anice LAFLEUR, ses enfants : M Arly PRÉVOST et famille, M Karl-Henry PRÉVOST et famille, M Joseph Junior PRÉVOST et famille, M Jean Ralph PRÉVOST et famille, M Lesly PRÉVOST, M Claude Anis PRÉVOST, Madame David Carment née Joséphine Marlise PRÉVOST et famille, M Rossiny PRÉVOST et famille. Il laisse aussi derrière lui, ses sœurs Nelly et Jacqueline PRÉVOST, sa tante : Martha Dessources.

De nombreux neveux et nièces, des cousins et cousines ; de nombreux amis, des collaborateurs souffrent de son départ.

Nos sympathies aux familles PRÉVOST, LAFLEUR, CARMENT, DESSOURCES, COX, CAMILLE, DASSAS, JEAN-BAPTISTE, SAMSOM, MONDÉSIR, LOUIS-CHARLES, TOUSSAINT, CÉSAIRE, LATORTUE, EUSTACHE, PROSPER, ARISTIDE, HILAIRE, CONSTANT, FLORVIL, DAY.

Condoléances au Football Inter-Club Association (FICA), A la 4VEH, A la Voix de l'Ave Maria, A Vision 2000, branche Nord, Au Tribunal de Première Instance du Cap-Haitien, A l'Orchestre Septentrional, Au Barreau du Cap et à la Grande famille capoise.

Un service religieux, en souvenir de Me Joseph L PRÉVOST dit Zo PRÉVOST se fera en l'Église adventiste de la rue 21 J, ce dimanche 9 janvier 2011, à 10 heures du matin.

Dans la soirée du samedi huit (8) janvier 2011, à six (6) heures du soir, une veillée de prière sera réalisée en cette même Église adventiste de la rue 21.

J. DOUDY
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mercredi 5 janvier 2011

Senior Order of Malta official blocks his ears to cries of Haitian childsex abuse victims

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From: Paul Kendrick <kendrickpt@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:01:31 -0500
To: <reseaucitadelle@yahoo.fr>; <isaacmarcelin@gmail.com>
Subject: Senior Order of Malta official blocks his ears to cries of Haitian child sex abuse victims




He's ignoring the children who were abused, but he's the 
Superintendent of Schools in the Diocese of Norwich (CT)

January 5, 2011

John F. Shine, PhD
The Board of Councillors
Order of Malta, American Association, U.S.A.
New York, NY
 
Dear Dr. Shine,
 
I received your email this morning asking me to stop sending you any more email messages about the situation surrounding the sexual abuse of children at Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap Haitian, Haiti.
 
I didn't recognize your name at first, but then realized that you are a member of the Board of Councillors of the American Association of Malta. As I understand it, that means you are a member of Malta's U.S. Board of Directors.
 
You could have simply deleted my recent messages but, instead, it appears that you want me to know that you, Malta leader, John F. Shine, PhD, do not want to hear one more word about six prominent Order of Malta members who destroyed Malta sponsored, Project Pierre Toussaint (PPT).
 
Here are some facts. When, in Spring 2008, credible and substantiated allegations of child sex abuse were brought against former PPT director, Douglas Perlitz, six Order of Malta members, Hope Carter, Jeanie and Tom Tisdale, Madeline and Phillip Lacovara and Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., paid no attention to the evidence, called the victims "liars," wrote a letter to donors disparaging the board's decision to fire Perlitz, which then caused the school to close and, listen to this, Dr. Shine, these six upstanding Malta members simply walked away from these hungry, homeless, street children as if the boys never existed.
 
Please, don't delete this message yet, Dr. Shine. There is more.  
 
During the next two plus years, even as the evidence against Perlitz mounted and even when he was indicted by a federal grand jury and even when he was arrested and incarcerated without bail, these six Malta members continued to defend this child molester's innocence at all costs and did nothing, absoliutely nothing, to help feed, clothe or shelter any of the former students.
 
Why? Because the boys were accusing Perlitz of raping, sodomizing, threatening and intimidating them.
 
How sad it is that, at a time when the boys most needed comfort, support, love and understanding, these six Malta members were nowhere to be found and quite frankly, it seems they could have cared less.
 
And now, you, Dr. Shine, are saying loud and clear that you could care less too.
 
Part II
 
I was shocked, Dr. Shine, to learn that, in addition to your leadership role with the Order of Malta, you are employed as the Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Norwich (CT). As such, you are entrusted with the safety, care and well being of 5,400 students who attend 25 diocese schools.
 Millions of Catholics have added additional insult to those who were abused by their failure to stand up and demand redress for the crimes committed against children and the cover up of these crimes by bishops, priests and church officials.

I can only hope, Dr. Shine, that you will choose to fully engage yourself in the innocent suffering of the boys who were abused and begin to raise your voice in opposition to the injustices they have been forced to endure.
 
Ad Majorem Gloriam.
 
Sincerely,
Paul Kendrick
Freeport, Maine
207 838 1319
 
Editor's Note –Fairfield Mirror - This is a five part series of diary entries written by Fairfield University alumnus Paul Kendrick '72, who spent the week of January 10th through January 16th 2010 in Haiti.

mardi 4 janvier 2011

PHOTOS PROCES VERBAL ET BULLETINS: LE VOTE DU 28NOVEMBRE IRRECUPERABLE

PHOTOS PROCES VERBAL ET BULLETINS: LE VOTE DU 28 NOVEMBRE IRRECUPERABLE

1. Comment l'OEA va s'y prendre si avec les proces verbaux? Je vous presente un exemple concret. La premiere photo represente le proces verbal au bureau de vote qui totalise 18 votes pour Joazard Claude, INITE. La seconde photo represente ce meme proces verbal au burau de tabulation du CEP qui a joute 100 votes pour Joazard Claude, INITE pour un total de 118 votes. Quelle est la strategie de l'OEA par rapport a cette meme situation au nveau nationale? l'OEA n'a toujours pas donne aucune explication sur cette procedure. Eske nap achte chat nan makout?



2. comment va-t-on recompter ces bulletins?

























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lundi 3 janvier 2011

WIKILEAK ON BELLERIVE-Only in Haiti.

Mr. Bellerive while minister of planning was reporting to the US ambassador on private (Conseil des Ministres) Meeting. In any other country such disclosures would trigger instant resignation.

Cable from US Embassy :

Planning Minister Bellerive described to me a recent Cabinet meeting where the Prime Minister and the Cabinet presented a development plan for the long-suffering northern tier of the country. Preval ridiculed the idea and when confronted by a united ministerial front, walked out of
the cabinet meeting and told his advisors to strike the proposal from the agenda.
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M. Le Premier Ministre, soyons sérieux ! (Premier Ministre Jean-Max Bellerive)

M. Le Premier Ministre, soyons sérieux !

(Premier Ministre Jean-Max Bellerive est le prototype du leader insignifiant)

 

Parmi les déboires qu'a connus Haïti durant l'année 2010, beaucoup ont déploré vivement le manque de leadership de M. René Préval, le président du pays. Mais, très peu d'attention fut accordée à son Premier Ministre, le chef du gouvernement, M. Jean-Max Bellerive. Car, il a été totalement absent de la scène. Pourtant, M. Bellerive avait l'opportunité idéale de se dresser à la hauteur des défis du moment où le leadership de M. Préval était défaillant. Pire, depuis l'arrivée de M. Jean-Max Bellerive à la Primature, il n'a rien fait de valable, voire de remarquable. Et ce, à telle enseigne qu'un membre du secteur privé, dont il a été le conseiller dans le passé, exprimant sa déception, a dit « M. Bellerive est resté le prototype de l'employé passif qui suit à la lettre les instructions de son patron ». Pourtant, la longue carrière de M. Bellerive dans l'administration publique et dans le secteur privé, avait laissé croire qu'il connaissait les problèmes qui l'attendaient. Mais, il avait pris le poste, sans se montrer un leader responsable à un moment où le pays en avait grand besoin. Ce qui a fait dire au très connu www.huffingtonpost.com: « Haïti a passé une année de crise sans avoir quelqu'un en charge ». Notre déception est d'autant plus grande, du fait que personnellement on avait salué publiquement l'arrivée de M. Bellerive à la Primature comme une bonne chose pour le pays, compte tenu de sa compétence. Nous pensions vraiment, à l'époque, avec tout ce groupe de professionnels à la disposition du gouvernement, certains d'entre eux étant des amis personnels, le pays, sous le leadership d'une personne avec les connaissances de Mr. Bellerive, sa longue carrière et expérience, allait connaitre des résultats encourageants.

Ainsi, avec étonnement et consternation, nous avons pris note de la récente déclaration du Premier Ministre sur Vision2000, à propos de la relocalisation des « sinistrés », comme il appelle les déplacés du séisme. Car, c'est moins de deux mois avant la sortie du pouvoir de ce Premier Ministre qu'il semble se préoccuper du sort de plus de 1 millions de nos frères et sœurs qui vivent sous les tentes dans des conditions infrahumaines. Même-là encore, il conserve le même mépris qu'il a affiché, tout le long de cette longue année, face aux attentes légitimes des victimes du séisme qui ont subi l'indignation de l'abandon à leur triste sort par leur propre gouvernement. Aujourd'hui, M. Max Bellerive semble se préparer à déguerpir, manu militari, les sans-abri des espaces qu'ils occupent. Car, il aurait besoin de ces espaces pour construire des logements sociaux. Autant dire que dans le raisonnement de M. Bellerive, les sans-abri ont leurs problèmes, lui il a les siens. Les affaires doivent continuer, illico presto, avant la fin de son régime le 7 février prochain. En fait, comment ne pas apprécier l'interprétation courante que le gouvernement de Préval/Bellerive s'intéresse purement aux activités qui sont profitables à ses membres et à leurs acolytes.

Ce nouveau plan du gouvernement, à la porte de sortie, est en complète contradiction avec l'attitude qu'il a eue jusqu'à présent. M. Préval avait déclaré qu'il était d'avis que les déplacés restent à proximité de l'endroit où ils ont habité. Son unique objectif fût d'avoir un électorat captif, susceptible de voter pour les candidats de son parti, durant des élections magouilles qu'il se préparait à organiser. Ensuite, le gouvernement et ses acolytes utilisent la présence des déplacés dans les camps pour faire de l'argent. Il semble plus les conditions de ces déplacés paraissent misérables, plus l'appel pour demander de l'assistance est convaincant. Ils utilisent, ainsi, la misère de nos frères et sœurs comme un appât.

De son coté, pas très longtemps de cela, M. Bellerive déclarait qu'il aurait besoin de 5 milliards de dollars pour relocaliser les déplacés du séisme. Sans dire, si tel était le cas, (ce qui est totalement faux), qu'est-ce que lui en tant que chef de gouvernement comptait faire pour secourir ces déplacés. Est-ce qu'il avait un plan. Nous avons sévèrement critiqué la déclaration de M. Bellerive, à l'époque. Car, depuis le mois de février nous lui avions envoyé et rendu public un plan qui exigeait un financement de $30 millions par mois, sur un calendrier de six mois pour déplacer 1 millions de sans-abri vers les villes de province. L'exécution de ce plan devait être incitative et devrait ensuite servir à redynamiser l'économie des villes d'accueil et donner aux déplacés la chance d'un nouveau départ. Une copie du plan est en annexe. Aucune considération n'à été donné à ce plan, car M. Préval est opposé à toute mesure qui pourrait faire avancer le processus de Décentralisation. La centralisation  est un principe dictatorial.

« Le » Jean-Max Bellerive qui a travaillé comme consultant à la Primature durant le gouvernement de transition, pensions-nous, avait suffisamment de jugement pour défendre un tel plan. Mais, malheureusement, pris dans l'engrenage de l'esprit de malfaisance du Président Préval, il a laissé son âme et sa lucidité aux vestiaires. Enfin, il avait probablement peur de prendre le contrepied de son patron qui faisait circuler la fausse promesse que chaque personne qui était abritée sous une tente allait recevoir une maison. M. Préval voulait conserver les déplacés sous les tentes, dans la capitale pour qu'ils aillent voter pour les poulains de son parti au moment venu. Les sans-abri n'ont pas voté pour les poulains du parti de M. Préval. Donc, il s'agit maintenant de les punir. M. Bellerive leur dit d'aller voir ailleurs. Il va libérer ces propriétés occupées par ces intrus. En ce sens, il serait la main vengeresse de M. Préval.

Le fallacieux prétexte est qu'ils vont construire des logements sociaux, mais la surprise « En ce qui concerne les maisons proprement dites, le chef du gouvernement haïtien prévient qu'elles ne seront pas distribuées gratuitement ».

 M. Bellerive annonce, plutôt, que les constructions vont commencer rapidement, car après avoir déplacé rapidement les sans-abri vers des destinations inconnues, $65 millions seront disponibles rapidement. Tout va se faire, bien rapidement, et des contrats seront signés, très rapidement. Car, on comprend bien qu'on doit être bien pressé maintenant de donner très rapidement les derniers contrats, avant de partir lentement dans moins de deux mois dans une retraite dorée et dans la poubelle de l'histoire. Quelle affaire !

Ces logements seront réservés à ceux qui peuvent payer, non pas à ceux qui avaient cru que M. Préval représentaient la providence sur terre. Heureusement, cette population l'avait décelé assez tôt et avait choisi de ne pas voter en faveur des poulains du parti de M. Préval.  

La vraie solution arrive, la fin du régime menteur est pour le 7 février prochain. Si M. Préval et son gouvernement restent au pouvoir après cette date, leur régime sera contraire aux dispositions de la Constitution de 1987. En effet, dans son article 134.1 la constitution déclare solennellement que le mandat du Président de la République prend fin le 7 février de la 5ème année de son mandat. Ainsi, si M. René Préval cherche à rester au pouvoir au-delà de cette date, il rentre dans une sixième année et viole la constitution, la loi mère du pays. Ainsi, il va pousser le pays dans un cycle de protestations qui finira, de toute façon, par le déchouquer.

Le soit disant projet de logements sociaux, en réalité, est une excuse comptable pour permettre au gouvernement de transférer les fonds du trésor public vers les caisses du parti politique du président, dans le cas où il arriverait à envoyer son poulain au second tour. Personne n'est dupe. En fait, M. Préval n'avait pas de plan pour organiser des élections libres et honnêtes pour élire un nouveau président légitime. Sinon les actes de fraude commis durant ces élections auraient été moins visibles et moins vulgaires. Le calcul de M. Préval est de créer une confusion et de profiter de la division et de la faiblesse de l'opposition pour rester au pouvoir avec un parlement incomplet et ineffectif pour régner sur le pays comme un dictateur.

C'est un mauvais calcul. M. Préval va perdre le pari. Il a entrainé la communauté internationale dans la boue en lui promettant un pays stable, avec tous les secteurs pacifiés et sous contrôle.  Il peut s'attendre maintenant au temps de la rétribution. Il va payer très cher son audace. Il n'est pas trop tard, cependant, d'aider tout le monde à sauver la face en lançant une négociation pour une sortie décente de la crise. C'est M. Préval qui a lancé le pays sur la route dangereuse dont il parle. Il doit se dépêcher de changer de cap, sinon il sera le premier à le regretter. Il a encore l'opportunité de se ressaisir et de donner sa chance à notre peuple qui attend pour commencer à reconstruire le pays.

M. Bellerive doit comprendre que le parti politique de son patron a été rejeté par la population et que les jours de son gouvernement sont comptés. Pour débuter un programme effectif en rapport aux sans-abri, avec le temps qui lui reste, ce serait d'entamer leur déplacement vers les villes de province, sur une base incitative. Tout ceci est esquissé dans le document en pièce jointe. Ce que nous avions dit en février dernier, est valable aujourd'hui, avec très peu de changements.

Nous devons dire que le Premier Ministre Bellerive aurait du s'opposer aux manigances de M. Préval, si ce n'est par principe, au moins pour défendre ses propres intérêts. Car, M. Bellerive n'est pas inclus dans le plan de continuité envisagé par M. Préval. La personne qui était désignée pour le remplacer, si le coup d'Etat aux urnes avait réussi, est le maitre-à-penser de l'INITE, l'actuel Ministre de la Justice, Paul Denis. Donc, il n'est pas trop tard pour demander à M. Bellerive de se ressaisir. S'il est resté insensible pendant une année au sort des déplacés du séisme, on pourrait être généreux et dire qu'il était face à une crise qui dépassait sa pointure. Mais, s'il cherche les bonnes grâces de M. Préval, en transférant des fonds à son parti pour être récompensé par un poste d'ambassadeur, la nation se souviendra de sa mauvaise foi.

Nous voulons souhaiter, une autre fois encore, à notre pays et à tout le peuple haïtien, une année exceptionnellement productive et féconde et demander à la Providence Divine de bénir nos efforts et de nous accompagner tout le long de cette nouvelle année 2011.

 

Paul Gustave Magloire

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Metropole: Poursuite des mouvements de protestations anti Préval

Des barricades de pneus enflammés ont été entreposées dans plusieurs artères de la capitale ce lundi. A Delmas les protestataires ont utilisé des carcasses de véhicules pour bloquer la voie principale de cette commune.

Les manifestations de ce matin s'inscrivent dans le cadre d'un mouvement de protestation contre le chef de l'Etat lancé le 1 janvier 2011. Le jour de l'an plus d'une centaine d'individus avaient pris part à une manifestation dans le quartier de Lalue. Les protestataires réclamaient le départ du président, selon eux responsable des fraudes massives lors du scrutin du 28 novembre.

Aux Gonaïves, en marge de la cérémonie de commémoration du 207 eme anniversaire de l'indépendance nationale, plusieurs manifestants avaient sillonné la place d'armes pour crier leur colère contre le chef de l'Etat. Au moment de présenter son discours le chef de l'Etat a été chahuté par des individus qui réclamaient son départ.

Plusieurs personnalités politiques dont Himmler Rébu et le sénateur William Jeanty souhaitent le départ du président Préval le 7 février 2011. M. Rébu préconise la formation d'un gouvernement de transition qui devra organiser de nouvelles élections en novembre 2011.

La majorité des leaders de l'opposition s'opposent à la décision du président Préval de faire usage d'une prorogation de 90 jours accordée par la loi électorale. Le chef de file du Greh met en garde contre cette velléité du président Préval qui selon lui peut conduire à une crise comparable à celle du 7 février 1986.

LLM / radio Métropole Haïti

 

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Le départ anticipé de Préval avait été proposé le 28 novembre par certains membres de la communauté internationale, selon Ricardo Seitenfus

Le représentant sortant de l’OEA déclare avoir alors fait remarquer qu’il s’agirait d’ un « coup d’Etat »

 

Des représentants de la communauté internationale ont proposé le départ du président René Préval lors d’une réunion du groupe d’appui à Haïti qui s’est tenue à Port-au-Prince le 28 novembre dernier, à l’issue du scrutin législatif et présidentiel controversé qui s’est déroulé ce jour-là dans le pays, a révélé le représentant sortant de l’OEA en Haïti, Ricardo Seitenfus, dans une interview accordée le 29 décembre 2010 au journal « Folha do Brazil ».

Sans identifier qui de la communauté internationale avait fait pareille proposition, le diplomate brésilien a ajouté que la question de trouver un avion pour transporter le président a même été évoquée.

Le premier ministre haïtien Jean Max Bellerive qui participait à la réunion, a déclaré que s’il s’agit de remettre en question le mandat de M. Préval, il ne faut en aucune façon espérer son appui, toute solution se situant en dehors de la Constitution étant à son avis inacceptable.

Soulignant le silence observé alors par le secrétaire adjoint de l’OEA, Albert Ramdim, présent à la réunion, Seitenfus affirme avoir dû solliciter la parole pour rappeler aux participants que toute atteinte au mandat du président serait assimilable à un coup d’Etat au regard de la Charte Interaméricaine pour la Démocratie.

« J’étais vraiment surpris de constater le silence du secrétaire général adjoint de l’OEA face à l’éventualité que le mandat d’un président légitimement élu soit écourté », a ajouté le représentant sortant de l’organisation hémisphérique.

Interrogé sur le fait de savoir si on lui a formellement notifié sa révocation suite à son interview au journal suisse « Le Temps », Ricardo Seitenfus a répondu que non, mais que, contrairement à sa volonté de rester en poste en raison de la délicatesse de la situation postélectorale en Haïti, le secrétaire général de l’OEA, Jose Miguel Insulza, lui a demandé de « prendre des vacances » alors qu’il lui reste seulement 3 mois de mandat.

« C’est vraiment curieux que le représentant de l’OEA en Haïti soit absent au moment d’une crise électorale. Pourtant, mieux que plus d’uns à l’OEA et au sein de la communauté internationale, j’ai l’avantage de pouvoir dialoguer avec le gouvernement haïtien », a déclaré le diplomate.

Dans cette interview au journal brésilien, Ricardo Seitenfus a repris en substance les considérations qu’il avait faites dans « Le Temps » sur l’échec de l’aide internationale en Haïti et qui lui ont coûté son poste. Il a également soutenu qu’un gouvernement provisoire manquerait de légitimité pour sortir Haïti de l’impasse. [jmd/Radio Kiskeya]



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Ricardo Seitenfus claims coup against Préval was suggested

[Abridged translation of an interview by BBC Brazil as published in Folha for December 29. See orginal here and related article here.]

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The representative of the Organization of American States in Haiti for two years, Brazilian Ricardo Seitenfus is due to be fired from his position soon, a development he himself interprets as a response to his "critical position" on the role of the international community in the Caribbean nation's recovery…

BBC Brazil – Have you been notified officially of your dismissal from your position?

Ricardo Seitenfus – No, not yet. I had decided not to take a vacation in December so I could be in Haiti during this delicate phase of the election. But the secretary general (José Miguel Insulza) asked me to take a vacation. I conclude that for the two months, February and March, that I was supposed to remain in Haiti I would no longer be there. But that is not the problem. The most serious thing is what is happening now: the OAS representative is not in Haiti during an electoral crisis. And I have an ability for dialogue with the Haitian government that no one else in the OAS has and that few in the international community have.

–You have been in Haiti for two years. Has there been a recent incident that moved you to adopt this more critical position?

–Right after the earthquake, an exceptional job was done. To the degree that it was possible, Haitians received help, aid… An international joint effort was made that was positive. Meanwhile, when the emergency was over, things began not working as they should. In March, there was a meeting of the donors in New York in which 11 billion US dollars was collected for Haiti. It happened that those resources never got to the country.

An international commission for the reconstruction of the country was created that to this day is searching for its real functions. At any rate, the international community's promises were not kept. And meanwhile the plight of the displaced remains the same.

–All that changed your view of things?

–I would say that I became progressively aware of our limitations and, why not say it, of our failures in Haiti… I mean, we of the international community. Besides that, on November 28, the day of the elections, there was discussion in a meeting of the Core Group (donor countries, OAS and the United Nations) of something that seemed to me simply frightening. Some representatives suggested that President René Préval should leave the country and that we should think about an airplane for that purpose. I heard that and I was horrified. The prime minister of Haiti, Jean–Max Bellerive, arrived and immediately said not to count on him for any solution outside the constitution and he asked if President Préval's mandate was being negotiated. And there was silence in the room. Beside me was Albert Ramdin, adjunct secretary of the OAS, so I could not speak because the OAS was being represented by him. But faced with his silence and that of the others, I asked to be able to speak and reminded them of the existence of the Inter-American Democratic Charter [of the OAS] and that I thought any discussion of President Préval's mandate would be a coup. I was very surprised by the fact that the adjunct secretary of the OAS remained silent in the face of the possiblity of shortening the term of a legitimately elected president.

–But many people argue for a provisional government as a solution to the electoral impasse in the country…

–I was always against that. A provisional government would not have the legitimacy of the ballot boxes and it would be an admission of our failure. If after almost seven years (of the peace mission in Haiti) we do not manage to organize a democratic transfer of power, I wonder how we can make a positive evaluation of the presence of the international community, which came here to bring democracy to the country.

–So your criticisms apply to the peace mission as well?

–After the earthquake the nature of the Haitian challenges changed completely. We are faced with one of the greatest challenges… It is a human venture to reconstruct a country of ten million inhabitants destroyed by a natural catastrophe. We have 1.5 million people on the streets, with 80 percent unemployment, the cholera epidemic.

We cannot limit ourselves to the challenges foreseen, even mistakenly, in 2004 (the beginning of the mission) as a question of security. The situation is much more complicated and demands more than a peace operation.

–But the Brazilian government, for example, has opposed a change in the mandate of the mission… In your opinion, what is that position due to?

–The international system does not have the means to confront a situation like that of Haiti. We have to change the Council. We have to get rid of the nature of the Security Council and change it to a Council for Economic and Social Development. And above all, we have to think that the development of Haiti has to be carried out by the Haitians. If people imagine that it can be done through MINUSTAH and through the NGOs, we will be deceiving the Haitians and deceiving the world's public opinion.

–Is the Haitian government not being given its due space in this process?

–Neither the government nor Haitian society. Being in solidarity is not the same as being a substitute for someone, it is to accompany someone. And we are deciding for them. Now we are getting involved in the electoral process. Let Haitian institutions solve their own problems.

–But there are charges of past episodes of corruption involving the transfer of resources intended for the Haitian government, no? Does the country not have certain institutional limitations?

–It is our fault that they have limitations. We transferred all the resources through NGOs and not through Haitian institutions. Without a doubt the Haitian state is very weak and was worse after the earthquake, losing 30 percent of its personnel.

What do we have to do? Maintain policies of accompanying Haiti that allow the personnel to remain in the country. The charges of corruption are part of an ideological discussion. There is no corruption, there is the perception of corruption. Haiti has no way of being corrupt because the state has no resources.

What can be questioned is how the resources that the NGOs collect, without accounting for them to anyone, are being administered. That is indeed the big question. I make an exception of the work that was done in the emergency, but there cannot be a permanent policy of substituting the NGOs for the state. Haiti is Haiti, it is not Haitong [Haiti-NGO]. No country would accept what the Haitians are forced to accept.

–And what is Brazil's role in this process?

–Brazil has a very large responsibility, because this is the first time that we have a peace mission that is this long and this expensive for us, in which we attempt to demonstrate a different way of acting.

Brazil should take advantage of the fact that there will be a new government in Haiti and a new government in Brazil and make an assessment of six and a half years of MINUSTAH. I am not proclaiming that Brazil should withdraw its troops tomorrow. That will be done after a long discussion, that includes the Haitian government and the United Nations.

Not discussing it would be the big mistake. As though MINUSTAH were a divine truth, a bolt of lightning from the sky, as though there could be no reservations. I have the impression that the quality of a peace operation is inversely proportional to its duration. The longer a peace mission is extended in time, the less value it has. The good peace missions are the short peace missions

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