Gen­eral Infor­ma­tion | Cases | Exclu­sion of Fanmi Lavalas from Elec­tions | Per­se­cu­tion of Fanmi Lavalas Sup­port­ers | Alle­ga­tions of Per­se­cu­tion by Fanmi Lavalas Sup­port­ers | Other Polit­i­cal Vio­lence | Vio­lence Com­mit­ted by the United Nations

Gen­eral

For an acknowl­edg­ment of the dif­fer­ent polit­i­cal par­ties in Haiti, see Polit­i­cal back­ground on Haiti (see sec­tion on polit­i­cal par­ties) – The CQ Researcher Blog – March 2010

On the fac­tion of Lavalas see

• Preval Rejects US Ideas for Elec­tion Includ­ing Return of Aristide’s Party, Lavalas, Banned in 2009 – HCV Analy­sis — July 3, 2010;
• Third Lavalas Fac­tion — Are they Fanmi Lavalas? – Mar­guerite Lau­rent – Feb 16, 2009;
• US Law­mak­ers Con­cerned over Haiti’s Forth­com­ing Poll (see sec­tion “Party splits”) — Mark Doyle BBC — 12 Octo­ber 2010;
• Lavalas Party Divided, Com­pro­mised Elections/ Parti Lavalas Divisé, Élec­tions Com­pro­mises (located in the bot­tom half) (French) – Archives Nou­velles d’Haïti et d’ailleurs;
• Entre con­fu­sion et divi­sion (French) —  Samuel Bau­ci­caut, Vic­tor Jean Junior – Jan­u­ary 26, 2009.

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Cases

• Joseph v. Holder, 600 F.3d 1235 (April 14, 2010) (per­se­cu­tion by the Ramikos because peti­tioner sup­ports the Lavalas).
• Alcius v. Holder, 374 Fed. Appx. 583 (March 23, 2010) (per­se­cu­tion by para­mil­i­tary groups based on petitioner’s affil­i­a­tion to the Lavalas party).

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Exclu­sion of Fanmi Lavalas from Elections

The Fanmi Lavalas party has been banned from elec­tions since the 2004 coup.

• With friends like these…CARICOM and Haiti — Novem­ber 15, 2010
• US law­mak­ers con­cerned over Haiti’s forth­com­ing poll — Octo­ber 12, 2010
• Unfair and Unde­mo­c­ra­tic — Sep­tem­ber 8, 2010
• Les Faits autour de l’Exclusion de l’organisation Fanmi Lavalas des Sen­a­to­ri­ales du 19 Avril et du 21 Juin 2009 — July 1, 2010
• Two-faced Democ­racy in Haiti — Novem­ber 26, 2009
• Lavalas Flexes its Mus­cles in Haiti — May 4, 2009
• Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Appre­hen­sion Wide­spread — April 17, 2009
• Haiti: Aris­tide, Ex-Rebel Barred From Sen­ate Elec­tions — Feb­ru­ary 6, 2009

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Per­se­cu­tion and Kid­nap­ping of Fanmi Lavalas Supporters

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• Haiti: Fear for safety/Death threats — Octo­ber 24, 2010
• Three Years Later, We Still Don’t Know: Where is Lovin­sky Pierre-Antoine? — August 12, 2010
• Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist — Sep­tem­ber 28, 2009
• Haiti: Deten­tion with­out trial in Haiti: Appeal Case: Release Ronald Dauphin (French) — August 1, 2009
• Haiti: Access to power and activ­i­ties of mem­bers of the Lavalas Fam­ily (Fanmi Lavalas) party; sit­u­a­tion of mem­bers of the Lavalas Fam­ily move­ment; pro­tec­tion avail­able to them (2005 — Jan­u­ary 2009) — Feb­ru­ary 16, 2009
• Amnesty Inter­na­tional Calls for Action by Haiti on Abduc­tion and Threats Against “Sep­tem­ber 30″ Human Rights Defend­ers — Decem­ber 20, 2007
• One Lavalas Offi­cial Freed in Haiti, Sec­ond Remains Miss­ing (Haiti Infor­ma­tion Project) — Octo­ber 31, 2007
• Dr. Maryse Nar­cisse Kid­napped in Haiti — Octo­ber 30, 2007
• Authors of Lancet Med­ical Jour­nal Study On Haiti Claim To Be Tar­gets Of Intim­i­da­tion Cam­paign — Sep­tem­ber 11, 2006
• Invis­i­ble Vio­lence: Ignor­ing mur­der in post-coup Haiti — August 1, 2006
• 2006 Annual Report for Haiti (extract) — Decem­ber 31, 2005
• Inter­na­tional Dec­la­ra­tion of Sup­port for the Hait­ian Peo­ple — Sep­tem­ber 1, 2005
• Arbi­trary Arrest/Prisoner of Con­science: Gérard Jean-Juste (M) — July 25, 2005
• Brian Con­can­non, An Pren­sip: The Sub­or­di­na­tion of the Judi­ciary in Haiti (HaitiAction.net) — May 12, 2005
• Amnesty Inter­na­tional: Hait­ian National Police must be held account­able for killings of civil­ians (PDF) — April 29, 2005
• Coun­try Reports on Human Rights Prac­tices (extract) — Feb­ru­ary 28, 2005
• Haiti: Inter­na­tional Legal Net­work: Human Rights Defend­ers at Risk: Renan Hedo­u­ville and other Mem­bers of CARLI, and Lawyer Mario Joseph (Amnesty Inter­na­tional) — Octo­ber 20, 2004

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Alle­ga­tions of Per­se­cu­tion by Fanmi Lavalas Supporters

• “We Have Never Had Jus­tice” — July 21, 2009
• Free­dom of expres­sion can­not pre­vail if there is no jus­tice for mur­dered jour­nal­ists — May 3, 2007
• Haïti-Violences : Per­sis­tance d’agissements de com­man­dos armés sur la pop­u­la­tion (in French) — July 20, 2006
• Haiti shanty seeks respite from Aris­tide gangs — August 15, 2005
• Coun­try Reports on Human Rights Prac­tices (extract) — Feb­ru­ary 28, 2005
• Les Chimères entre­ti­en­nent un cli­mat de ter­reur à Port-au-Prince — Decem­ber 21, 2004
• Ter­ror­ism by Aris­tide Sup­port­ers, Impunity for For­mer Army­men — Octo­ber 28, 2004

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Other Polit­i­cal Violence

• Third and Fourth Assas­si­na­tion Attempts Against Sen­a­tor Bou­los — June 8, 2010
• Haiti: Fear for Safety /Death Threats / Pos­si­ble Pris­oner of Con­science: Joseph Guyler Delva (m) — Decem­ber 28, 2008

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Vio­lence Com­mit­ted by the United Nations

• Haitians Want an End to Vio­lent UN/MINUSTAH Occu­pa­tion — Sep­tem­ber 7, 2010
• United Nations Attacks Refugee Camp, Protests Mount — June 1, 2010
• The Cite Soleil Mas­sacre Declas­si­fi­ca­tion Project — June 24, 2007
• Evi­dence Mounts of UN Mas­sacre in Haiti: On July 6, more than 350 UN troops stormed the sea­side shan­ty­town of Cite Soleil — July 19, 2005
• Haiti Action Com­mit­tee con­demns UN mas­sacre in Haiti, demands an end to the killing — July 10, 2005

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Gen­eral Infor­ma­tion | Cases | Exclu­sion of Fanmi Lavalas from Elec­tions |Per­se­cu­tion of Fanmi Lavalas Sup­port­ers | Alle­ga­tions of Per­se­cu­tion by Fanmi Lavalas Sup­port­ers | Other Polit­i­cal Vio­lence | Vio­lence Com­mit­ted by the United Nations