Reply #32: The breadth of the lies is stunning. D Burton is backer of Prosper Avril [View All]

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On Nov. 27, U.S. Senators Dan Burton and Robert Torricelli wrote to Swing about Avril, saying, It is absolutely imperative that his life, his family, and his property be assured of protection especially in light of the continued assassinations of political opponents of President Aristide and the Lavalas party.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/191.html


Prosper Avril Released, then Rearrested

As Prosper Avril stepped out of the National Penitentiary a free man on Apr. 15, he was immediately rearrested by heavily armed policemen and charged with involvement in a 1990 peasant massacre.

Gen. Avril is a former military dictator who took power in a 1988 coup but was driven from power in Mar. 1990 by a popular uprising.

He was first arrested on May 26, 2001 at a book- signing for his work entitled "The Black Book on Insecurity in Haiti," in which he accused President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of being responsible for political violence in Haiti over the past decade. Avril was charged with the 1989 beating and torture of democracy activists and for plotting to overthrow Aristide’s current government.

But the Haitian Appeals Court ruled for his release on Apr. 11, outraging two of the torture victims, Marino Etienne and Jean Auguste Mesyeux.

Meanwhile in St. Marc, Judge Henri Kesner Noel issued a warrant charging Avril as an accomplice in the Mar. 13, 1990 assault by soldiers on the town of Piatre in the Artibonite Valley, in which 11 peasants were killed, dozens of farm animals shot , and over three hundred peasant huts burned or destroyed (see Haïti Progrès, Vol. 7, Nos. 51 & 52, 3/21/90 & 3/28/90).

The assault stemmed from a land dispute the peasants had with Olivier Nadal, a prominent Haitian opposition businessman who has fled to Miami to escape warrants charging him in the massacre.

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http://www.haiti-progres.com/2002/sm020424/eng04-24.html

Under this coup, the National Penitentiary (as well as every other prison in Haiti) was broken into by the rebels and guess who the first person freed was? Dan Burton's good thug friend, Prosper Avril. Note who Avril did his dirty deed for, Olivier Nadal, the co-founder of group 184 who is part of the NED/ IRI's "Haiti Democracy Project" right along with Roger Noriega and Timothy Carney.

http://www.haitipolicy.org/gallery.htm