Pourquoi aucune intervention musclee a Martissant?

Assassinat d'un journaliste a Martissant passe presqu'inapercu: SOS Journalistes Haiti lance un cri d'alarme aux autorites

SOS jourrnalistes Haïti appelle les autorités à faire le jour sur l'assassinat d'un journaliste/photographe à Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince, le 23 janvier 2007 (AHP)- SOS jourrnalistes Haïti a condamné mardi l'assassinat vendredi du journaliste-photographe, Jean Rémy Badiau, survenu à Cité Jean 23 (Martissant) au sud de la capitale.

Le journaliste pigiste a été tué par balles aux environs de 4 heures de l'après-midi.

Selon ses proches, la victime avait tée l'objet de menaces de mort de la part de membres de la bande criminelle Lame Timanchèt (l'armée de petites machettes).

Jean-Rémy Badiau, 45 ans, a été particulièrement ciblé pour avoir pris des photos de membres de gangs qui s'affrontaient dans la zone de Martissant. Il a été tué alors qu'il se trouvait devant son domicile, dans le même quartier.

SOS Journaliste appelle les autorités compétentes particulièrement le ministre de la justice, le chef de la police et le commissaire du gouvernement `a prendre les mesures necessaires pour déterminer les circonstances de ce meurtre et poursuivre les criminels.

Des jeunes du quartier populaire de Martissant ont dénoncé une nouvelle fois lundi le climat de terreur qui s'est installé dans cette zone depuis août 2004 avec l'assassinat de plus d'une dizaine de personnes qui assistaient à un match de football "sponsorisé" par l'USAID.

Ces jeunes ont fait savoir que du 3 décembre 2006 à date, au moins 30 personnes ont été tuées et une cinquantaine d'autres blessées.

Les habitants de Martissant accusent "Lame Timanchèt" de responsabiilité dans la quasi-totalité des crimes ciommis dans cette zone.

Selon des sources proches de l'ancien régime, Lame ti manchèt a été formé en 2004 pour éliminer, dans les quartiers populaires de Port-au-Prince, notamment du Bel-Air, du Fort national, de Martissant... des individus réputés hostiles aux autorités de facto.

Des membres de cette bande dont des policiers et des "attachés" arrêtés `a la suite du massacre d'août 2004) ont été remis en liberté avant l'arivée du nouveau gouvernement.

Des jeunes de Martissant se sont déclarés prêts à collaborer avec la police si elle manifeste vraiment leur volonté de rétablir la paix dans cette zone.

" La police nationale et la MINUSTAH doivent connnaitre les bandits, car ce sont pour la plupart des gens qui avaient été incarcérés pour crimes", ont-ils fait savoir, déconçant une sorte de laxisme et de tolérance face aux bandits de Lame ti manchèt.

AHP 23 janvier 2007 3:15 PM

Eske se pa Foknougoumen ki genyen rezon lè li mande eske Preval toujou nan kan pep la?Li montre de moun ke yo asasine nan site ya tandis ke lame ti manshet li menm ap kontinye vide moun a tè san oken represay fet kont yo?Eske se katoush pou kan pep la e rekonpans pou zenglendo lame ti manshet yo?

Bagay saa dwol anpil wi.

Le dossier de Martissant est complexe. Il semble que des grands interets soient en jeu et proteges par de grosses pointures...

Si vous remarquez, meme la couverture que la presse accorde aux evenements de Martissant est bien differente de celle accordee a des evenements se produisant a Cite-Soleil...

Paske lame ti manshet lan se bra arme oligarshi ya sa yo rele liberatè,tandis ke moun nan site soley yo se kan pep la.Digne fils boujwasi ya Preval ap mete katoush pou pep la epi li kite lame timanshet la li menm ap ede li mentni statu quo kote ti moun ap manje moush ak tè kwit.


La gosh kavyar ap montre vrè visaj li.Se lè w pran ou konnen lè marengwen ap vole ou pa konnnen sa ki mal sa ki femel.

La situation est plus complexe que cela...

Ce n'est que la continuation d'un long combat.

On a eu la tete d'Aristide (un peu moins intelligent et se pensait plus grnad que le mouvement), on cherche a avoir la tete de Preval (en recherchant exactement le type de reaction que vous avez presentement) pour detruire un mouvement populaire qui n'aura plus de tetes aussi rassembleuses que ces deux personnages la...

Preval n'a pas le controle souhaite sur la Police et la Minustah n'en fait qu'a sa tete.

Si m konprann byen sa w di m laa Preval se youn pope twel ,youn panten yo mete la pou kalme moun ,men li pa genyen oken otorite vre.Si youn gouvenman genyen majorite pep la dèyè w epi ou pa genyen kontwol menm sou la Polis nan peyi ya e byen mon shè se mwen ki te genyen rezon.

Si se sa yap shashe pou detwi tout moun nan kan pep la ki ka rasemble tout sektè popilè yo ,se devwa Preval ak Alexis pou yo fè pep la konprann sa ki ap pase la.Nan benyen pa genyen kashe lombrit, di dyab bonjou li ap manje di li lan med kareman.Se mete youn jandameri natyonal sou pye ak bon jan fomatyon sivik e politik epi di jandam etranje yo mèsi bokou epi se banm talon nou.Gouvenman an beswen youn Pomero ,youn Salnave ki pou edike pep la.

Gwotor,
pou ki sa li pran djob prezidan an?Se karakte li pa gengnen?

Effectivement,

Piporiko, vous avez dit dans un autre debat que vous prepariez un texte sur le mouvement populaire. A ce moment, on pourra discuter plus en profondeur de Preval si vous le voulez bien.

Lame Ti Manchèt Accused of Role in Murder of Photographer
Haiti Struggles to Defend Justice,

By JEB SPRAGUE, Counterpunch, January 26,2007

Residents of Martissant, a sprawling poor section along the southern part of Port-au-Prince, have accused Lame Ti Manchèt (the Little Machete Army), a civilian vigilante group, of having a role in the killing of freelance photojournalist Jean-Rémy Badio on January 19 2006.

According to SOS Journalistes, of which Badio was a member, he was assassinated after taking photos of the killers. They state that his family received multiple death
threats. Agence Haitïenne de Presse (AHP) reports that according to Badio's close friends the victim had been the object of death threats from members of the vigilante group "the Little Machete Army" and that "residents of Martissant accuse the Little Machete Army of committing most of the killings in the area".

An early press release put out by the Paris based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) attempted to place the blame for the murder on not only Lame Ti Manchèt but also another group known as Baz Gran Ravine which has no reported involvement in the killing. RSF's Directrice générale in Canada Emily Jacquard wrote, "Two armed gangs - Lame Ti Manchèt (Little Machete Army) and Baz Gran Ravin (Big Ravine Base) - have been fighting for the control of Martissant for the past two years".

The report, without mentioning the resident's charges against Lame Ti Manchèt for having a role in the murder of Badio, also failed to mention that the overwhelming amount of documented political killings in Martissant over the last two years have been conducted by Lame Ti Manchèt, this includes a massacre of 21 people, the burning down of 300 homes 7/9/06, and a massacre carried out jointly with the Haitian police at a USAID sponsored soccer tournament 8/20/05. In contrast to massive evidence showing violent rampages by Lame Ti Manchèt, people on the ground in Martissant consistently explain that since 2004 the Baz Gran Ravin (Big Ravine Base) has served as a self-defense grouping.

Soon after the 2004 coup it is believed that Lame Ti Manchèt came into existence under the tutelage of the illegal Latortue regime whose mission was to "eliminate people hostile to the interim regime". (AHP 1/23/07) A young journalist Abdias Jean was executed, with a bullet in his head, by police of the interim government in January of 2005. RSF and other groups seen as partial to Haiti's interim authorities failed to report on the killing.

According to reports from AUMOHD, a human rights group active in Martisant, the
2006 massacre conducted by Lame Ti Manchèt "was meant as a smoke screen to
provoke Baz Gran Ravine into a retaliation and thereby distract from the push to
get police and civilians involved with Lame Ti Manchèt into jail. AUMOHD'S
community human rights council (CHRC) coordinator, Esterne Bruner, was
assassinated by Lame Ti Manchèt 9/21/06. But there has not been any retaliation
reported. Instead the CHRC, non-violent and non-partisan, continues to prosecute
all the killings".

The Institute for Justice and Democracy (IJDH) in Haiti observes, "The Little
Machete Army will keep going until someone stops them. They carried out the
August 2005 soccer game massacre with the help of police, and right near a
MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) observation post. Then
they struck again the next day, burning house after house. They did a series of
attacks in the summer of 2006. But neither MINUSTAH nor the PNH will go in and
arrest the leaders."

Footage from the August 2005 soccer game massacre appeared in New York Times
author Walt Bogdanich's documentary "Haiti: Democracy Undone". It shows well
equiped police officers, with Lame Ti Manchèt serving as police attaches,
running into a screaming crowd.

Under international pressure from human rights groups, the PNH with the
assistance of Sri Lankan MINUSTAH troop succesfully arrested and jailed fifteen
members of the Haitian police department cited in the official police
investigation as working with Lame Ti Manchèt. But the arrested individuals were
released on personal recognizance in February of 2006. On October 19 2006 Judge
Peres Paul issued his final judgment releasing all the police officers from any
responsibility but named civilians in the case who he referred to criminal
court.

Human rights organizations have decried Judge Peres Paul, who as a supporter of
the interim government, released police officers that were known to be working
with Lame Ti Manchèt. PNH chief Mario Andersol later criticized corruption among
the judiciary, a group of whom went on strike in response. The civilian members
of Lame Ti Manchèt referred to criminal court by Judge Peres Paul were Marck
alias Ti Ink, Tél Kale, Kiki Ainsi Connu, Roland Toussaint, Frantz alias Gerald
Gwo Lombrit, Roudy Kernisan alias commandante Roudy (head of Lame Ti Manchèt),
Carlo alias Choupit, and Jean Yves alias Brown.

Guyler Delva of the Haitian Associaon of Journalists (AJH) has denounced the
killing of Badio on numerous Haitian media outlets. Amnesty International has
also issued a press release denouncing the killing of Badio. The Associate Press
reports that Fred Blaise, a U.N. police spokesman, explained that gang members
were suspected in the shooting but no arrests have been made. Following the
recent murder of Badio, Haiti's Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis authorized
MINUSTAH soldiers to increase patrols in Martissant.

Thousands have been killed in Haiti since the unconstitutional overthrow of its
elected government in February 2004. A scientific study done through random
spatial sampling and published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, found
that between early 2004 to mid 2006, 4,000 people were killed by the interim
government's forces and its armed supporters in the greater Port-au-Prince area.
The second half of the study which its authors presented this month shows that
the vast majority of those targeted were supporters of Lavalas and Lespwa.

Is Lame Ti manshet the equivalent of the para military group called fraph during the militray gouvernment of General Cedras?Is Lame Ti manshet the armed forces of the oligarshi that control the wealth of the country where 90% of the people are living with less than 2 dollars per day?

Is Jodel Chamblain the real Commanding Officier of Lame Ti manshet?Why are they killing the most progressive Journalists in haiti?Not long ago they killed Jacques Roche and they blamed Father jean Juste for the killing.Who is behind these killings and why the new government elected by the majority of the poor haitians is so tolerant toward these criminals?

Malheureusement, la question a se poser est quelle marge de manoeuvre ou de controle l'executif a-t-elle vraiment?

La seconde questions a se poser, est comment le mouvement populaire va se reorganiser pour ne pas tomber dans le piege de la partition qui se joue contre lui...

"To be or not to be"

Si le President Haitien n'a pas le controle de ce qui se passe dans son pays il a l'autorité nécéssaire pour demander des comptes au Representant du Secretaire General de LONU.Ne dit-on pas que cette force n'est pas une force d'occupation .Dès lors Mr Mullet ne peut pas s'eriger en Gouverneur d'haiti.Ce dernier a declaré qu'il agit selon les instructions du gouvernment haitien.

Je reconnais l'urgence de trouver une solution aux problemes de l'insecurite et du kignaping,mais faut-il que ces operations soient entreprises avec toutes les precautions requises pour eviter le massacre des innocents.Et si c'est vrai la cite est entourée de chars blindés de la MINustah comment explique-t-on qu'un camion chargé de passsagers ait ete kidnapé par les delinquants sans etre apercu par les militaires ?Est-il improbable qu'il y ait une complicite de certains militaires etrangers dans ces actes?