{"id":137919,"date":"2019-07-22T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137919"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:05:10","slug":"human-rights-team-finds-us-backed-haitian-government-culpable-in-lasalin-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/human-rights-team-finds-us-backed-haitian-government-culpable-in-lasalin-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Team Finds US-Backed Haitian Government Culpable in Lasalin Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 Jul 2019 – <\/em>Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild\u00a0[NLG] is releasing a new report The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti<\/em> <\/a>about the November 2018 massacre in the neighborhood of Lasalin, Port-au-Prince.\u00a0 The report provides evidence of other subsequent massacres and human rights violations facilitated and supported by\u00a0the government of Jovenel Moise and his ruling PHTK party.<\/p>\n

The report is co-authored by Judith Mirkinson, President of the San Francisco chapter of the NLG, and Seth Donnelly, a member of Haiti Action Committee. Other members of the team include Margaret Prescod, an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles and producer of the Sojourner Truth radio program nationally syndicated on Pacifica, as well as Ramiro Funez, assistant producer of the Sojourner Truth program.<\/p>\n

On April 1, 2019 our team went to Lasalin and interviewed survivors and eye-witnesses of the November massacre. The report demonstrates that the Lasalin massacre – rather than simply an example of \u201cgang violence\u201d as portrayed by the Haitian government and some US media sources – was in fact an attack facilitated by government officials and directly conducted by Haitian National Police [HNP] officers working closely with paramilitary elements logistically supported by the PHTK. Lasalin was targeted because it is a base of protests and opposition against the Moise government. Perpetrators of the massacre destroyed homes, burned people alive, hacked people to death, fed body parts to pigs and dogs, and raped women. People of all ages, including a 10 month old child, were systematically butchered.<\/p>\n

The report examines how the US government has continued to diplomatically and economically support the Moise government, despite clear evidence of its human rights violations.\u00a0 US support for the Moise government includes millions of US tax dollars to fund and train the HNP, despite its well-documented participation in brutality, killings of unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, and massacres such as the Lasalin massacre. The police and Moise government have also been politically, economically, and logistically supported by the United Nations occupation forces in Haiti, MINUJUSTH. The report concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the toll mounts from the atrocities committed in Lasalin, it is time for both the United States and the United Nations to be held to task for their continued support of the repressive and illegitimate regime now in power in Haiti. The people of Haiti deserve the right to live without the daily threat of state-directed violence.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Download Report HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The <\/em>Haiti Action Committee<\/a><\/strong> is a Bay-Area based network of activists who have supported the Haitian struggle for democracy since 1991.Our members travel frequently to Haiti and are in close touch with Haitian grassroots activists, legal and human rights workers, and victims of repression. Through demonstrations and civil disobedience, Congressional lobbying and educational events, publications and community organizing, we are working to build a strong Haiti solidarity movement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8 Jul 2019 – Haiti Action Committee together with the National Lawyers Guild is releasing a new report The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti about the Nov 2018 massacre. U.S. support for the Moise government includes millions of dollars to fund and train the Haitian National Police despite its well-documented participation in brutality, killings of unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, and massacres such as the Lasalin massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":125328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,65,53],"tags":[120,267,975,976,260,487,651,541,291,1281,287,985,126],"class_list":["post-137919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exposures","category-anglo-america","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-haiti","tag-haiti-action-committee","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-military","tag-police-brutality","tag-power","tag-social-justice","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}