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JEPHTHA VA LITTLE POWER BACK IN GUADELOUPE

Raffles and deported the same day

Jephthah, I mentioned in my previous post precisely "in 2008, his deportation was outrage. Born on French soil and having always lived, Jephthah was 5 years old when he was arrested with his father in September, the day before classes begin. His father, Haitian illegal immigrants had taken him to buy her a new pair of shoes on the occasion of its third school year. It will be enough of an identity check for the father and son were deported the same day of their arrest to Port-au-Prince, without even a change of clothes. They were abandoned to their fate after the passage of the first two hurricanes and deadly as Hurricane Hanna threatened. "I even worried about whether he had survived the hurricanes that have devastated Haiti while he was there and especially to the earthquake. In Guadeloupe, Jephthah became the symbol of injustice against undocumented immigrants, and his case was legitimately excited everyone.

picture of Jephthah and his dad, published on the website in September 2008 UGTG

A fight for survival

Guadeloupe Four lawyers who had taken up the cause of him from the day of his expulsion, Sarah Aristide, Roland Ezelin, Evita Chevry and Felix Rodes, managed to get him. In a letter to the prefect February 8, 2010, they reveal what they learned: "(...) Today and quake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale of 13 January that hit Haiti, Jephthah and his father have no roof over their heads. Their house in Port au Prince collapsed like a house of cards. (...) Today is a sick, weakened by so many vicissitudes, which is fighting to stay alive and who owes his salvation to the solidarity that was precariously established around them. Indeed it seems to suffer from dysentery, convulsions, hunger and thirst, food and medicines sent by international organizations being unable to them, since they live in a remote district of Port au Prince, little accessible. Unnecessary in these circumstances, attempting to describe the daily battle that they lead to stay alive and this even though they have no family there and had up to that decision quashed illegality of their own lives in GUADELOUPE. "

For purely humanitarian reasons

Reeve, Jean Fabre, just responded positively to the request return made by lawyers, by sending a letter to Sarah Aristide in which he writes: "I am willing (...) given the dire health situation in Haiti and thus for purely humanitarian reasons: 1) to accept the return of Guadeloupe Jephthah and his father Tillius Depreux, 2) to grant the family, Mrs. Saimpre, M Depreux Jephthah and the child a right of residence on the basis of private and family life. "

Having inflicted so much suffering to a boy of 5 years ...

This is obviously a huge victory that can celebrate all those for whom the notions of justice and human rights are not only values loincloth, commonly spread in national debates nauseating. Humanly, we can welcome the fact that the nightmare of this little boy, sharply away from his mother by the police of the country of his birth, his friends, exposed to several natural disasters and dire poverty, is completed. Hopefully he can recover without physically keep the legacy of horrific events that he has cross. Also hope he can overcome the psychological trauma that are probably hers today ... The fact that his father could accompany him there will probably help. The group of lawyers had attracted the attention of the warden on the situation of the man: "It is time that this little boy finds his life, his mother, without being separated from his father, which would amount to a new tear. Furthermore, what would it Mr DEPREUX, abandoned, alone and destitute of all resources and affection of her child. It is surely destined to a life of wandering and misery, that will lead inevitably to death, since all private and special affection of his people who have been waiting over a year. "

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Symbolically too, Jephthah is living proof that solidarity, generosity and perseverance can more than cold Sarkozia machine that thinks only make the figure as slaughter and constantly patting themselves for the good results, certainly seeking thereby to retain its new extreme-right electorate. But if there is to be welcomed, however we must bear in mind that his case is not isolated, far from it. While the warden finds a solution to most media, but the system itself that must be challenged, if not in six months, others are small Jephthah returned to Haiti and will experience the same suffering.

tree hiding the forest

Jephthah is only the tip of the iceberg. Situations as tragic as hers, there are much, much suffering anonymous faceless and nameless to us, just figure in the mouth or Hortefeux Besson. In their letter, the lawyers point out this truth: "Since then, numerous reports made to the prefecture as well as the prefecture, have denounced the inhuman conditions which were treated with foreigners and their difficulties to obtain the regularization their situation. "This must stop. Together we must demand the legalization of all undocumented Haitians who live so far on French soil, our silence we are complicit in these acts unworthy of a democracy that respectable.

Frederick Gircour ( chien.creole @ gmail.com )

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Petition

WHY IT IS IMPERATIVE OF MAKING THE UNDOCUMENTED HAITIAN

sign the petition: http://www.mesopinions.com/ for-regularization-of-undocumented-Haitian-grand-grand-2ae1db5c47aaff7082cfaba825658fa2.html

After the earthquake that devastated Haiti, France has suspended for six months the expulsion of undocumented Haitians. A decision which does honor to France. As Stephane Guillon said in his column of January 20 on France Inter, "Oh he can be generous Eric Besson! That said, he happily took this decision, you can imagine the atmosphere in Port-au-Prince if among the broom humanitarian aircraft from around the world, a French plane, filled with undocumented Haitians had presented! "We've all seen the TV, throat, images of the disaster. It will take years to this small country to recover from this terrible ordeal. Now what will happen in 6 months? The manhunt (the wife and child too) flare in France because Hortefeux, Minister of the Interior, establishes quotas for the year and that the police will have to go into overdrive to catch up.

Port-au-Prince, January 2010 - photo Julien Tack

is remembered in Guadeloupe, which has a large Haitian community, the small Jephthah which no one knows if he survived the earthquake, in 2008, his deportation was outrage. Born on French soil and having always lived, Jephthah was 5 years old when he was arrested with his father in September, the day before classes begin. His father, Haitian illegal immigrants had taken him to buy her a new pair of shoes on the occasion of its third school year. He has just one identity checks the father and son would be expelled on the day of their arrest to Port-au-Prince, without even a change of clothes. They were abandoned to their fate after the passage of the first two hurricanes and deadly as Hurricane Hanna threatened. We, French citizens do not want to be involved in this kind of infamy.

The most basic human rights that require us to cease permanently to return Haitians to our soil, and therefore we regularize them. It is the sense the open letter (1) addressed to Immigration Minister by several Haitian organizations, supported by the League of Human Rights Guadeloupe, the collective of Overseas Migrants ( MOM together 13 NGOs including Catholic Relief Services, Cimade, Medecins du Monde), etc..

Some would argue that France is already hit by high unemployment rates and to paraphrase a famous socialist does not purport to accommodate all the misery of the world. It is good to remind them that Haitians in question are already on our soil, and their undocumented status that many employers hire them illegally, cheaply, thereby disadvantaging a worker in a regular situation whether French or foreign. Everyone has to gain except the rogue bosses who can no longer exploit them at will but must hire workers a decent wage and respect their rights.

can not remember enough the role Haiti played in the struggle for the abolition of slavery, and thus for humanity. Can not remember enough wealth that France has drawn from this small country called the pearl of the Antilles, its richest colony. After making him suffer the torments of slavery, she left battered after a particularly destructive war, and as if that were not enough, imposed a massive debt (the equivalent today billion euros) in compensation for slavery after independence! Yes, we all owe a debt to Haiti.

Then demand the regularization of undocumented Haitians!

sign the petition: http://www.mesopinions.com/Pour-la-regularisation-des-sans-papiers-haitiens-petition-petitions-2ae1db5c47aaff7082cfaba825658fa2.html

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(1) http://www.ldh-france.org/IMG/pdf/2010-02-11_lettre_ouverte.pdf

Diapers.com Swot Analysis

Press LKP + agenda Guadeloupe

KA LKP DeKlarit:

Zafè has "voted louse mwen ... I did .. "Pa ka maché anko.

Gwadloupéyen, fanm e nonme Gwadloup, it is this new situation we see today a year after our proud revolt kont pwofitasyon all of 2009. On the one hand, new, year Mouvman, konsyans year, balan e Solidarity year, convinced of our ability and our dispositions to mobilize all our skills and powers to dézankayé Gwadloup, é Lwena Lwena, Lwena menm, Lwena we et de NOS préoccupations, when, always tie é costume, Les responsible "legitimize et républicains," Column one couvrée, prêts à s'étriper matches ravir à leurs comrades d'Hier's clef qui ferait d'eux des titulaires of compétences. E-wall ochan ochan, based, they are ready to let life become more beautiful: Oladyab!

Pèpgwadloup é LKP together against PWOFITASYON! Respect!

Only land change! We gannyé more conscious and we learn 'why that still YO that the political system, economic and social chouka in Pwofitasyon, nourishes and maintains to protect its interests.

Wi Gwadloupéyen even today we find that the political class does Gwadloup mobilized to ensure that its reproduction. ... Ola yo te ye?
And force them to spawn, they produce only lies, cowardice, treachery and petty ambitions to the delight of those who hold real power, the capitalists in the import distribution, services and finance, and fwansé colonial state. Size

pa bò the Finet, Sarkozy ka ay ka gade Kongo dance !

Wi Gwadloupéyen. To observe from afar (but really by far) the electoral antics we reproduce those who claim to govern ourselves, we better appreciate the magnitude of the path. They will confirm the correctness of our belief: the legitimacy of the street as we proudly brandished during a year is certainly indisputable way for the emergence of another corporation Guadeloupe.
With their rhetoric, their alliances and occult with no future, promises that no one believes they are confirming that they never intend to honor their signatures, so the agreement Bino, 26 February 2009 that the agreement of March 4, 2009. They assure us that the entire application of the provisions of these agreements would Toutoune, dispossessing them of many privileges and free the people of the state of dependence in which it is overlooked them.
Clearly, when the Prefect and the Minister Desforges JEGO vantratè came out of the negotiations, when Sarkozy has launched its States General, when the minister Penchard has thwarted all meetings of the Monitoring Committee of the Agreements, when the Congress elected on 18 June 2009, called for Sarkozy to 18 months to choose the "degree of autonomy Canada dry "à consentir Aux Assemblées, cough misaient sur les Elections de tuer pour Senneterre for good, All contestation, Tous les espoirs construits LKP avec pour leur ordre Kalender républicain pwofitasionel!

However, such mixed ash é flour, and mix
picking, we Peuple de Guadalupe é LKP, persistons dans la lutte LIYANNAJ Adam's words, one
manifestations à leurs dénoncer magouilles. The prices
picking, women and man Guadalupe, can not hear them again, can not attend them, can not believe it. The
anmèwdé picking, ils sont à Toutes sortes forced two matches contorsions grappiller quelques voix, CA Hittite. Yo
ankayé davwa when they venture to say "I did for the youth, I have done for businesses, I have done for farmers, artists, carriers, assisted contracts. ... ".. Manti has yo! All Gwadloupéyen ka ri!
anrajé davwa Yo, when they say "I'll do,"
nou ka response ': A pa ale fè pou'zot, ola'w tee yé pannan LKP? ...


KA LKP DeKlarit ....

Kimafoutiésa

How, indeed, admit that those who publicly declared yesterday that the street got it in 44 days in ten years in office, they had never could get today can deploy their programs and their promises as they continue to renege on their commitments with the LKP, commitments concerning precisely the main concerns of the people. How
accept Pancha Man can come and give blablater under our windows, so that as Minister, she continues to support pwofitan, rogue bosses to fund the MEDEF and the oil companies to refuse to over 30 000 workers 200 € Bino Agreement.
remember all the pretenders to the mandate of the Regional Adviser in March 2010, the contenders for next
mandates of General Counsel or advise the Assembly that only elected political representation is an emanation of the people, set up to execute a warrant for the People. And yet many of them are shockingly absent and silent, hidden bra Anba Sarkozy has revealed the face of suffering today.

Demand in March precisely to respect and implement the agreements Bino and 4 March 2009, including those on lower prices, lower water prices, transportation, fuels, rents, the appointment of a contingency plan for training and youth employment, the right to health, academic achievement, decent housing, stopping racism in hiring, discontinuation of precarious employment, stopping layoffs in companies that receive public assistance, protecting our living environment, farmland and natural areas, protection of entrepreneurs and creators Guadeloupe ... So many legitimate claims that they claim to support in the Conference. Manti has

yo! An-nou
kontinyé if yo vans.
Gwadloupéyen, travayè, jenn é Gwadloup gran moun, our young history as one other peoples of the world teaches us that the finest achievements of those men are torn in the struggle by large and popular mass movements. With our LKP jòdila and organizations that compose it, we have a power that can allow us to think that another company is possible. The company claimed yesterday and thought, we are accessible and the amount of confrontation that constantly oppose us in the Yo and the brotherhood of pwofitan.

the new Wi ... .... Nou fè peke Deye.
And now enriched with our memory of the struggles, the killings and blood des two open Février et Mars 1910, two février 1925, 1930 et 1952, de mai 1967, de janvier 2009, à nous continuerons marked vers plus de Liberté long hours and higher for détòtyé Guadeloupe.

LKP may be: Name, LKP by Adam elections;
Name, LKP can soutyenn bridge or bridge candidate list;
Name, bridges candidate can not speak for LKP.

always, always, encore et encore, seemed to us face to face with them. To
memory works:

Samedi 13/02: RV: 18h00 - Kibroth Moul - Conference sur les événements du
14 février 1952, de 1910 et 1925.
Dimanche 14/02: Déboulé lari year Lapwent
Wednesday, 17/02: RV: 6h 30 at Sacred Heart - Mass for J. Bino.
Thursday, 18/02: Sonja Jacques Bino - RV: 16:00 - Simityè Kannal.
Sunday, 21/02: RV: 9.00: lokal Association Yo-menm
Route de Sainte Marthe - St Francis - "Gamel has the Lizin.
Monday, 22/02: Meeting: 17:00 - lokal menm Yo Association.
torchlight march, laying of the monument in memory of three dead
the strike of 1910. Conference on historical events.

Pou Pawòl LKP kontinyé konsolidé new
MEETINGS - 19:00
Thursday, 18/02: Small Canal - Bourg
Friday 19/02: Deshaies - Bourg
Tuesday, 23/02: Saint Rose - Bourg
Friday, 26/02: Basse Terre - Douvan pos
Tuesday, 02/03: Mold - Bourg
Thursday, 04/03: Capesterre - Town Hall Friday 05
/ 03: Douvan bik
the''LA SÉ Gwadloup TAN NOU YO YO VLE Peke Fe SA ADAN Peyi Annou''

LKP Lapwent, 10 févriyé 2010

How To Break Into Honeywell Box

The Ashes

IN PICTURES

Thursday, February 11 around 13:00, a volcanic explosion was stealing a part of the dome of the Soufriere of the small island of Montserrat, north of Guadeloupe. The eruption caused no casualties. Pushed by the winds, the spectacular clouds that formed with the dome collapse happened over the Guadeloupe to 16:00 TOTALLY blocking the sky. The stars were not discovered only timidly around midnight, after a rain of ash over the hours of Guadeloupe was covered with a thin light gray, giving it a lunar appearance. At dawn, Guadeloupe was discovered in an unexpected light. I took these pictures for the readers of Creole dog this morning, Friday, Feb. 12 in the municipalities of Pointe-à-Pitre, the Abymes, Morne-à-Eau, Port Louis and Anse Bertrand.

Frederick Gircour (chien.creole @ gmail.com)

schools, colleges and high schools in Guadeloupe were closed today by order of the prefect. The airport is closed to him since yesterday. Here, the runway, with the bottom, vehicles that are activated to clear. (Photo FG)

Vehicles covered with ashes in the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre (photo FG)


A saleswoman protects from dust on the vegetable market of Pointe- à-Pitre (photo FG)


This gentleman has certainly spent the night outdoors (one wonders what to do ?!.), judging by his auburn hair! (Photo FG)

When Pointe-à-Pitre is the air of Mexico City (photo FG)

Well, this morning it looks like it's not just dead leaves that fly!? (Photo FG)

When a natural phenomenon arouses some artistic inspiration ... (Photo FG)

well protected (photo FG)

Guadeloupe is the largest consumer of champagne from France. Vestige of a lifestyle, like Pompeii (photo FG)

And no, the asphalt is not frosted, unlike other ... (Photo FG)

dusty The great man (photo FG)

Start by putting its own house (photo FG)

Man market in Guadeloupe! (Photo FG)

In zion (photo FG)

Cemetery Anse-Bertrand, traditional tomb (photo FG)

to Conch conch and volcanic ash (photo FG)

Tombs, the rest are covered with a layer of ash (photo FG)

Reflection in the ash (photo FG)

Footprints in the ash (photo FG)

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The earthquake in Haiti as seen by its writers (3rd and last part)

WORDS FOR REBUILDING

Life resumes

The Haitian writers on site began with a narrative drama, told the unimaginable, the scenes which they have assisted. Some left the country, to better reflect abroad, others by choice or necessity have remained there, face the same difficulties as their compatriots. Thus, Lyonel Trouillot, price Wepler 2009 for his latest novel [1] in the first column of a series published daily at the Point, begins by talking about the drama did not spare many of his relatives:

"We can not cry so many deaths at once. It becomes almost ridiculous. You can not choose the job. "But very quickly

life gets over it and his columns will move on very concrete aspects facing it alongside his compatriots, as the search for water drinking, the organization by the people themselves at the quarter where it is located or in the refugee camps that were created spontaneously.

Petion Ville Club since the earthquake (photo Julien Tack)

particular, it describes the Petion Ville Club, a club until January 12 attended by the local bourgeoisie and wealthy foreigners, with its great golf course and now has no fewer than 10 000 refugees from all social backgrounds:

"A dirty life it holds (Goodbye to the golf course and other "facilities" yesterday reserved for the rich). There are corners hairdresser, soft drugs, a pastor with speakers, a corner market vegetables, selling coal. The interim seems slowly settle in permanently. " [2]

A vision problem

This finding is echoed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck:

"The streets, football fields, turned into a multitude of refugee camps. A new life is organized. It is wrong to think this is temporary.

Refugee Camp (photo Julien Tack)

Knowing the shortcomings of my country and not expecting any consistency or continuity of ideas from the international community (Haiti will not the first case of abandonment media-humanitarian), this temporary is already transforming before our eyes (despite the denial of Haitian leaders and foreign) in the final. " [3]

And what emerges from the many accounts of Haitian authors is precisely the lack of response of the Haitian government and the sense of abandonment felt by the population a feeling that does not date from yesterday if we are to believe the writer Gary Victor, who lives in the tough neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuille:

"We have always had a problem of governance, a vision problem, we have a problem with contempt of this population, and that is the problem today is that people feel alone, feel abandoned, feels abandoned to itself, but fortunately I think that this population has shown it could be organized, because it must be said (...) is a population that is fighting, which continues to have confidence, but unfortunately, it ' a population that is unchecked, a population I can tell who is stateless. " [4]

Gary Victor (photo Iahhel brothers)

If CNN did ...

In defense of a state whose fragile infrastructure was destroyed (several ministers have also died in the collapse their department), Raoul Peck, very critical, said that international aid could have acted quite differently if she had wanted the Haitian government assumes a greater role in organizing the rescue:

" Several days later, we still do not feel the grip of the state.

director Raoul Peck

And it is not won in the coming weeks. The original error is that international aid has not thought of (desired ?) To establish first the physical and logistical means that the administration could be surviving in a condition to react, communicate, navigate. When I see the speed with which CNN has set up office, antenna, secretariat (and bar emergency?) On the tarmac of the airport, I think we could have done better.

Whatever the weakness of the Haitian State, he would have immediately been put at his disposal a HQ, means, media logistics experts. This was not done. Each was rather self-excited to occupy more area of possible intervention, at worst, for reasons of interest, at best for reasons of diplomatic vanity. " [5]

Correct structural defects

But the same Raoul Peck adds, with the force of a cry of "one country does not die." Here or there, one hears the expression Haiti, year zero, that is to say that in his terrible misfortune, Haiti may have the opportunity to start in earnest on a new footing. Intellectuals, by their reflection can make paths. For example, in the sixth column for the item, Lyonel Trouillot responds to a presidential speech:

"In one of his few interventions aimed at an audience of Haiti, the President said that schools should play again. How? Which schools? That one area, education and the school system, which serve as an example of the direction we want to rebuild. Do we reinvent the system of quasi-segregation (the richest to the foreign schools, high school French, American school / middle-class and lower middle class to wealthy schools and congregations "good" private schools / the poor to lower-rated private schools and public high schools / very poor without the right to schooling) or do your last real republican school contributing to greater equality and strengthen civic consciousness? This is a major test awaits Haiti.

What school tomorrow for these children? (Photo Julien Tack)

This great misfortune may be an opportunity to correct structural defects. What will be done in the field of education will tell if this spirit of solidarity is only due to the fact that decency born evil or is a strong element that will help create a fairer society. Humanism short or possible new beginning? This is the theme of conversation with old friends, looking down the evening. " [6]

Two weights, two measures

But already in its fourth chronic [7] , Lyonel Trouillot was the bitter realization that some harmful practices are not changed in Haiti:

"At the entrance to the hotel (...) which is housed the CNN crew, safety officer refuses to let me pass. It blocks all Haitians. Someone yells that's the homesickness: the failure of his fellows, and that it stops people do not come begging. The boss comes in and apologizes.

Lyonel Trouillot

But the damage is done. Before the earthquake, one of the misfortunes of this country was the "two double standard "which establishes different treatment criteria odious. After such a calamity, such practices can they be sustained?"

A society completely unbalanced

This "double action", it was already, before the earthquake, be summarized in three or four numbers speak for themselves: "78% of the population lives on less than $ 2 per day, 54% with less than $ 1 a day. 3% of the population owns 50% of the country's wealth " [8] Trouillot think of those who were already living in extreme precariousness:

" The economic disaster has hit all sectors. But those who suffer and will suffer every day are those who already lived day by day, evil, rose in the morning and went out into the streets without a specific destination, but with a purpose, somewhere, anywhere, which provide a meal. Those, if reconstruction is not thinking in relation to an employment policy, they will suffer long, to become professionals of the assistantship. It is hoped that a plan is being prepared for reconstruction and economic recovery. " [9]

Reset 1804

poet Rodney St Eloy, ended his testimony [10] a note of optimism while also stressing the importance of thinking about social reconstruction:

"The urgency now is to cross this valley of tears, to cope with the earthquake, giving humanitarian and cooperation face a real and effective social solidarity. Haitians who are standing must bury their dead, mourn, and hand in hand, repeat 1804, this time with the support of all countries of the world. "

Haitian Flag whose motto is "unity is strength"

Only international aid should not falter once the emotion aroused by the hype, fallen.

Bridging gaps

Again, the writers have a role to play to keep alive our memory this tragedy and that the flame does not go out of our commitment to this country because The challenge is immense and will be long term:

"Literature somewhere we can fill, no faults, it is below the earth but there are loopholes within ourselves. And one of these major faults is forgotten. "Said precisely the great poet and writer in a story Frankétienne [11] which was dedicated to him a few days after the earthquake.

Frankétienne

Frankétienne The same who at the time of the earthquake, was working on a piece he calls himself prescient. Rodney St Eloy describes the moment in the aftermath of the tragedy, which, along with Dany Laferriere, he went to Frankétienne:

"The house is cracked Franketienne. We stopped at his house, and he tells us, in tears, he did not live to 74 years old this barbaric thing. He talks about his play he is about to play, and he repeats and says that the earth wobbles, shakes, and the palace collapses. We look at the ropes that serve as decorations in the room. He speaks of Sarajevo, and to pursue his theater on the ruins, as at the extreme, it will need its words. "

Frederick Gircour (chien.créole @ gmail.com)

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[1] Lyonel Trouillot, yanvalou for Charlie, Actes Sud (2009)

[2] Lyonel Trouillot, What cat has taken the language of the executive?, Published on the website of Point 25 January 2010 (http://www.lepoint.fr/ actualites-monde/2010-01-25/jour-6-quel-chat-a-pris-la-langue-de-l-executif-par-lyonel-trouillot/924/0/416779)

[3] Raoul Peck, I am writing you a world of no return, Humanity (http://www.humanite.fr/Je-vous-ecris-d- one-world-without-return-By-Raoul Peck)

[4] France Inter, Special Issue 24 January 2010 at 20:00, on Haiti. Telephone interview conducted by Eric Delvaux.

[5] Raoul Peck, I am writing you a world of no return, Humanity (http://www.humanite.fr/Je-vous- Write d-a-world-without-return-By-Raoul Peck)

[6] Lyonel Trouillot, What cat has taken the language of the executive?, Published on the website of Point 25 January 2010 (http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde/2010-01-25/jour-6-quel -chat-a-pris-la-langue-de-l-executif-par-lyonel-trouillot/924/0/416779)

[7] Lyonel Trouillot the morning news, published on the site Point du 23 January 2010 (http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde/2010-01-23/haiti-carnet-de-bord-les-nouvelles-du- matin-par-lyonel-trouillot/924/0/416544)

[8] economic data published on the website of the Embassy of France in Haiti (http://www.ambafrance-ht.org/spip.php?article359)

[9] Lyonel Trouillot, What cat has taken the language of the executive?, published on the website of Point 25 January 2010 (http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde / 2010-01-25/jour-6-quel-chat-a-pris-la-langue-de-l-executif-par-lyonel-trouillot/924/0/416779)

[10] Interview Rodney St Eloy, published January 21, 2010 on the site Montray Kreyol (http://www.montraykreyol.org/spip.php?article3471)

[11 ] Issue The Great Library of France 5, on Haiti (http://www.france5.fr/la-grande-librairie/index.php?page=article&numsite=1403&id_rubrique=1406 & ; id_article = 14,945)

Midnight Club La Custom Car

case Gerty David

OF Death threats AGAINST THE LAWYER SARAH ARISTIDE

Master Aristide, which readers familiar Creole Chien for his commitment brave with the LKP, was threatened with death in a criminal case that the news in Guadeloupe.

A Crime odious

August 13, 2006. David Gerty, a mother of 36 years from bathing in Rivière-Sens, the town of Gourbeyre, south of Basse-Terre. We do not see her again

David Gerty (photo from the blog created by her family: http://gerty.blogspace.fr/ )

never alive. His body was found two days later in a banana plantation in Trois-Rivieres. Autopsy determine that she was raped, tortured, and that's a knife stuck in his throat several times, cutting his jugular which will put an end to his ordeal. This heinous crime has shocked the whole of Guadeloupe.

lawyers bring into question the conclusions of the police investigation.

Two men were arrested, Cedric Telemachus Bruno and Julian have partially admitted the allegations. Their trial began sitting on January 25, only now, lawyers for the family who claimed damages estimated that the investigation was botched and that according to some elements, it is likely that two defendants, if they are indeed responsible, did not act alone, or in the circumstances they want to believe.

Inconsistencies and Evidence contradictory

According to the revelations they made to investigators, the crime had occurred on the day of the disappearance, 15 h00. However, it was found in the victim's stomach foods that do not match the meal with his mother at noon. From there to think she was kidnapped and nurtured by his executioners, there is only one step. Furthermore, a witness revealed that he crossed by car Gerty the night he disappeared while the night had already fallen. A prison guard, friend the victim, sought to learn more and collected testimony that they were more to rape and murder, including some Jo.

Jo Indian

Jo is the nickname of a good friend of the two murderers, Joel William, Jo said the Indian. At the request of counsel, a warrant was forced to come testify at the trial while he now lives in France and had strangely never been bothered so far. Created problems at the hearing by master Aristide, it, along with nine friends, "the sinister-looking" approached it a little later outside the courthouse where she had removed to smoke a cigarette (1). According master Aristide, he launched into Creole to those who accompanied "fe foto ay at noon i Vivan, zo ké répran foto a 1 pm i ke mo ' : take his picture at noon while she is alive, you will take his picture at a time when she is dead. A witness who attended the scene confirmed this exceptionally serious Ezelin to the president, but fearing for his life, refused to testify at the helm against William Joel.

Claim for death threats

Furthermore, Sarah Aristide, she filed a complaint for "death threats" also reported that three individuals including William Joel awaited later in his car and a man she does not know the identity was even placed in his back without her noticing. It was the intervention of a third party who may have prevented the worst. Such actions only strengthen the suspicion already weighing heavy on William Joel. Hope that light is made quickly on the circumstances of the death of David Gerty and that pending the police provide, as she asks, protection master Aristide and his entourage. We will keep you informed of the outcome of this sordid affair.

Frederick Gircour (chien.creole @ gmail.com)

(1) Further proof that smoking is dangerous ...

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Earthquake in Haiti as seen by its writers (Part 2)

"HELL WILL IT STILL DANCING UNDER OUR FEET?"

Life and Death

At least 170,000 Haitians have lost their lives following the earthquake on Jan. 12, but death has also totally changed the report to the lives of survivors. Evelyne Trouillot is the writer who made the observation:

"Since Tuesday, life here is defined primarily by the non-confirmation of the death of oneself, loved ones, relatives and friends . Since Tuesday, life has changed completely. It is measured by the joy of someone removing the rubble of despair at the approach of night without any news of a missing relative, the intense jubilation at the sight of a friend of a street at random. A friend who has survived a living friend. " [1]

Even shared emotion among Kettly March [2] :

" I lucky to still have electricity and access to the internet. Alleluia! When I open my PC and a new name appears in the list of my online contacts, I breathe blow. Ayibobo! [3] "

The body count

Evelyne Trouillot continues

"Since Tuesday, we are counting our dead. The nameless dead, names known to raise a collective reaction, figures which make us shudder. A woman lost seventeen members of his family, a man saw his wife and three children perished in the rubble and killed himself.

photo Julien tack

Since Tuesday, the horror has taken hitherto unknown faces. Tressautent children at the slightest sound of a door slamming or a truck passing. Teenagers have become acquainted with death, having learned that it can suddenly appear at once and destroy loved ones.

Mark Endy

Lyonel Trouillot

writer for his part, spent a chronic daily from Port-au-Prince to the website of Le Point. The 8th day, he recounts the plight of one of his friends:

"You learn that such has lost a parent, a child. My friend Mark Endy. Member of the Workshop on Thursday night. When the house collapsed, he realized that the child was dead, he had to save his companion. He left the child in the rubble to bring his wife and he sought treatment. He spent the night with her. The next day he returned to the destroyed house. He took the body of his child and he burned it. Then he picked up the bones and put them in a box, until one day (who knows when?) It can be buried as was the custom here to bury people. Since the disaster, I have not seen a few of my friends. I have made art of storytelling, I am very afraid of those who await me. " [4]

Making the apocalyptic prophecy

And as horrible as this evidence may seem, his friend can consider that He was lucky in terms of all those who have not been able to bury their dead according to Christian rites, or those, voodoo, the dessounen, make their last respects, and to do their grief work. The health emergency imposed to act quickly: the bodies are gone Tens of thousands join anonymously in mass graves hastily. Struck by this tragedy, not weaken, the religious fervor of Haitians has increased. When on earth everything collapses around you, there is little more than the religion that allows you to hang you for something. The testimony of Danny Laferriere, delivered during a conference [5] given in Paris, could almost raise a smile if the circumstances were so dramatic:

"In this first night there was a guy in the neighborhood of Jealousy, a poor neighborhood, who preached hard on the street. A mother went out to ask him to pray more quietly. He said he did not pray, but he asked forgiveness. The mother replied that her children were sleeping and that he would welcome apologize silently. And the discussion continued. The only act of courage that I realized that night was to have turned off the radio. RFI was, I believe, who covered the quake. And then a show on the furniture. It was too hard. Until the corner where I find myself filled with a clamor. Thousands of euphoric voice, Jehovah's Witnesses who were singing their victory, the realization of their apocalyptic prophecy. Energy Witnesses woke everyone. We waited a long dawn, it was a night that did not end. "

Pentecostal celebration, a few days after the earthquake (photo Julien Tack)

Guilty

Kettly The author Mars describes it as the religious fervor, and focuses on the feeling of guilt that consumes those who are paradoxically, however, that the victims of a natural disaster: "We are hungry , thirst, and we suffer. And we pray all night. For the fifth consecutive night they prayed, his hands raised to heaven. Jesus! ... Jesus! The name on everyone's lips. We have too much sin is punished by God. Repent! Such a test can not be a punishment from God, we see fish fatigued. Difficult to remove it heads, it's hard not to believe in the curse. " [6]

The blood of Jesus Christ

Some will go crazy, like this woman that her daughter took her to the only psychiatric hospital that has Port-au-Prince. Journalist Jean-Paul Mari recounts his reaction during his visit to this center, "" They are there, they'll take me "shouts the young woman. She sees evil danger everywhere, is suffering from delusions of persecution . His daughter supports him caress his forehead. She calms down, then resumes: "blood ... all that blood! The blood of Jesus Christ!" " [7] .

This woman suffers from severe PTSD, but to varying degrees, we can say that all those who experienced the earthquake January 12 and are traumatized many replicas are not made for calm.

loss benchmarks

Beyond the irreparable loss of loved ones, we can understand by reading the testimony of Dany Laferrière, after such an event, benchmarks have been shattered, what everyone thought and strong protector was not worse the most mundane objects are now becoming a threat: "The most striking, in an earthquake of 7.3 is that you can almost run without falling. But the heavy concrete houses, they have yielded. There are over 30 years in Haiti, an orgy of concrete which was believed it would protect cyclones. They are also the objects that have killed many people in the rooms; televisions including flying in the apartments.

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is the force that killed him. And yet, I watched carefully the next day: not a flower garden of the hotel where I was has been broken. Not one. (...) [The day of the earthquake,] I counted 43 earthquakes in the night. I was sure I could never trust the earth. " [8]

"Hell Will still dance beneath our feet? "

March Kettly find words to share with us what it feels like Haitians today, following the trauma:

"The shaking until mid-day, four days later. I'm traumatized, but I realize I can not do everything just not holding my body when he panics. I think that about two million people suffer from the same trauma. We hear the ominous sound that comes with the shock and we feel the earth tremble beneath our feet, but we do not always know if the sensation is felt or imagined. The hell is he still dancing under our feet? I call it the shock syndrome.

I also suffer from the syndrome of the open door. When I'm in the house, I always have an open door in front. To run faster than death. An illusion, however. The survivors have survived because the houses in which they were not fallen. Other have not had time to leave. Within seconds it was over, two spasms of the bowels of the earth and our destiny was a head to tail. We still sleep under the stars. God, what nights are beautiful! " [9]

to follow ...

Frederick Gircour (chien.creole @ gmail.com)

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[1] Evelyne Trouillot, "Since Tuesday we have our dead," appeared on the website Biblios Nouvel Observateur, January 21 2010 ( http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20100119/17073/evelyne- Us-Trouillot writes dhaiti )

[2] Kettly Mars, "Staying alive and perpetuate life" appeared on the website MontrayKréyol January 22, 2010 (http://www.montraykreyol.org/spip. php? article3474)

[3] Ayibobo, voodoo term equivalent here of "hallelujah" mentioned above but also serves as a greeting between voodoo.

[4] Lyonel Trouillot, A Short History reactions to the horror of the earthquake, published on the website of the Point, January 27, 2010 (http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde/2010-01-27/carnet-de-bord-a-haiti -petite-histoire-des-reactions-al-horreur-du-seisme-par-lyonel/924/0/417529)

[5] Danny Laferrière, Do not be intimidated, published in Time, January 28, 2010, transcript Arnaud Robert ( http://www.letemps.ch/Facet/print/Uuid/3cc16e1a-0b10-11df-9ef2- c16ac67aac55/Ne_pas_se_laisser_intimider )

[6] Kettly Mars, "Staying alive and perpetuate life" appeared on the website MontrayKréyol January 22, 2010 (http://www.montraykreyol.org / spip.php? article3474)

[7] Jean-Paul Mari, "The" crazy "in Port-au-Prince. "Le Nouvel Observateur, 27 January 2010 (http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/speciales/seisme_en_haiti/20100126.OBS4847/les_fous_de_portauprince.html)

[8] Haiti, the overwhelming testimony of the writer Dany Laferrière, le Monde, January 16, 2010

[9] Kettly Mars, "Staying alive and perpetuate life" appeared on the website MontrayKréyol January 22, 2010 (http://www.montraykreyol.org/spip.php?article3474)