Elections of March 20, 2011
Note from Gaillot Dorsinvil, president of Provisional Electoral Council, April 12, 2011, to the Joint Diaspora Mission
toujours des persecutions , cher ami, de la part des partisans de Jean Ba et de berthold
ils jouent avec le feu ; j'ai porté plainte par devant des instances internationales et je prendrai un cabinet d'avocats tout de suite.
je serai obligé de dénoncer à la presse et les org des droits de l'homme nationaux et internationaux ces menaces puisque Jan Ba cautionne tout. je suis désolé. car je ne vais pas me laisser faire.
j'en ai assez. gran mesi chen se kout baton
Gaillot Dorsinvil
President du CEP
E-mail from Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé, a top understudy of President Préval, Unité senatorial candidate from the Nord-Est, and Haitian consul-designate at Dajabon, to Gaillot Dorsinvil, April 11, 2011
Gaillot,
Nou aprann nan Bouch Vis Prezidan BED la Me Jiordani Monpremier Alyas Danyi, kew fè tout lannwit ap relel bal presyon poul pran desizyon kont Berthol pou yo
Anile sant de vot Philippe Bathelemy nan Carice ak pou yo rekonte vot Vallieres yo.
Mwen wèw te di ke nou konnen nou paka entimidew, nap diw byen, nou pa nan jwèt ni nan entimidasyon avèw, men nap klè nou pap pèdi 2 palmantè sa yo nan Nord est.
Me Jean Bernard di nou ke Jonas tounen yon koutye politik andedan an, jan lap reponn teleforn ak jan lap bay presyon pou dosye Liline nou an pase, Map tou diw menm si ou ta fè kod mal taye ou mete Liline Depite nan BCEN nan li pap fè manda a lap mouri kanmenm.
Se menm frekan sa ye pou yon vis Prezidan BED ap deside nan desizyon BCED li pouw ap relel bal presyon dil me sa poul fè DANYI se yon Pastè li ye se pa volè tankou nou, tout direktwa INITE okouran de sa wap fè yo, E tout moun INITE yo gen yon sèl konklizyon wou se yon sanwont engra kew ye, se premye nèg okap ki nan eta sa a ki san rekonesans kansa.
Di Jonas li mèt ranje bondal, li rale zamm sou Berhol deja, epi li fè sal fè an nan BCED, li dwe nou eksplikasyon sou tout sal fè yo.
Dènye bagay map diw sonje ke Depi Batelemy Anile li pap bon Pou Jeanba tou, veye pandan wap pran desizyon pouw koule Berthol pouw pa tou koule Jeanba tou, komm mwen wè se Jeanba ki nan achte figiw ki nan fè ipokrit ki pa vle palew sa ki genyen, konnen ke SWAT yo ak cha blende MINUSTHA yo pap toujou avèw toutan.
Gaillot pa fè bagay pouw pa di siw te konnen, paske siw te konnen toujou dèyè.
Translation of April 11, 2011 e-mail from Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé, Haitian consul-designate at Dajabon and Unité senatorial candidate, to Gaillot Dorsinvil, president of CEP
We learn from the BED vice president that Esq. Jiordani Monpremier, alias Danyi, that you spent all night calling him pressuring him in making a decision against Berthold so they can eliminate Philippe Bathelemy Voting Center in Carice and so they can recount the votes from Vallières.
I see that you said we know we cannot intimidate you, we are telling you clearly, we are not playing nor are we in this intimidation with you, but we are being clear that we are not losing these two parliamentarians in the Northeast.
Esq. Jean Bernard told us that Jonas has become an inside political courtier, the way he answers the telephone and the way he is pressuring us so your Liline’s dossier could go through, I am telling once and for all even if you were to do anything illegal, you put Liline as Deputy in the BCEN she won’t finish her mandate[term] she will die no matter what.
It’s even insolent[out of place] for a BED vice president to be deciding about his own BCED decision for you to be calling him to pressure him by telling him what to do] DANYI is a Pastor he is not a thief like you, the entire INITE committee? is aware of what you are doing, AND all the INITE people have one conclusion you are an ingrate who has no shame it is the first guy from Le Cap who is this way, who is this ungrateful.
Tell Jonas he needs to be cautious[Literal translation-Tell Jonas to get his ass ready] he once pulled a gun on Berthol, then he did what he did in the BCED, he owes us an explanation on everything that he did.
The last thing I am telling you, keep in mind that if Barthelemy is eliminated, it won’t be good FOR Jeanba as well, watch out as you make a decision to drop Berthol so you don’t drop Jean-Ba [in the process] as well, as I see it, it is Jeanba who is kissing up to you, who is being a hypocrite, who does not want to talk about what is going on, remember that the SWAT and the UN armored cars will not always be with you all the time.
The sentence in bold is word for word.
Gaillot don’t do anything you will regret later, because “if you had known” is always behind.
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The Creole sentence, “gran mesi chen se kout baton”, above the signature line in the French section of the e-mail means: People around you are the ones who give you the hardest blow or disappointment or People you have helped the most are the ones who are the most ungrateful.
Literal translation-“Great thanks from a dog is its blow”.
(Translation by Elmide Méléance of Hyattsville, Md., author of a Creole handbook and a Haiti Democracy Project election observer in Port-au-Prince and the Nord Department in the 2006 elections.)
Known references in the e-mail:
"Berthold" is a reference to Jean Berthole Bastien, Unité candidate for deputy in the Valliéres/Carice/Mombin Crochu district of Nord-Est Department.
"Philippe Bathelemy Voting Center" is the Ecole Nationale Philippe Barthelemy Voting Center in Carice, CV code no. 04-36-86-12-88-5, where the Unité candidates' claimed leads were challenged by the opposition senatorial and deputy candidates in briefs submitted to the BCED and BCED, bureau de contestation électorale départementale and nationale.
"Liline" is Phanese R. Jean-Baptiste Laguerre. She is a Solidarité party candidate for deputy in the Valliéres/Carice/Mombin Crochu district.
"Jeanba" and "JeanBa" are references to Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé, close associate of President René Préval, Unité senatorial candidate in the Nord-Est Department, and Haitian consul-designate at Dajabon. According to information we have received from the Dominican foreign ministry, Bien-Aimé's credentials were never accepted because of suspected involvement in drug-running. Also, his chauffeur was convicted and sentenced to jail in the Dom. Rep. on drug charges. According to our sources from the Nord-Est Department, Bien-Aimé is the chief personality behind the violent assault on the polls by Unité gangs during the November 28, 2010 balloting. These assaults were reported by our fifty election observers and by other observer organizations, such as Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH). Bien-Aimé is also reputed to have sent men to assassinate Sen. Rudolph H. Boulos, senator from the Nord-Est and a founding member of our board.
In the text of the e-mail, Bien-Aimé refers to himself in the third person.
All of the above names are rendered in U.S. order, i.e. first name, middle name(s), and last name
Provenance of the e-mail containing the threats
Gailot Dorsinvil, president of the CEP, sent it to James Morrell, director of the electoral misssion, with the included covering note. It came from the Haitian consulate at Dajabon. Another e-mail address for Bien-Aimé is also given there.
Targets of the threats
1. Phanese R. Jean-Baptiste Laguerre ("Liline"). She is candidate for deputy
2. Gaillot Dorsinvil. President of CEP
Background
The admission of a violent man like Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aimé to the senate, based on a fraudulent count, will pose serious problems for the new president Michel Martelly.
Both Bien-Aimé and Jean Berthole Bastien, the Unité deputy candidate, are currently listed as leading in the CEP's preliminary results. However, opposition candidates have lodged serious challenges before the BCED and BCEN based on suspected fraud at certain polling places that reported for the Unité candidates, and the quarantining of returns for insufficient reason from other polling places that reported heavily for the opposition candidates.
An example of the first would be the Ecole Nationale Philippe Barthelemy Voting Center in Carice, which reported 587-180 for the Unité sentorial candidate but which, judging by the e-mail, is being reviewed by the BCEN. An example of the second would be voting centers in Grosse Roche (2ème Section Ecrevisse) in Vallières, where the threatened female opposition candidate swamped the government candidate 1,733-75 but most of whose votes were quarantined. (She is from there and very popular.) The Joint Diaspora Electoral Observation Mission is still reviewing these returns, but just these two examples would come close to determining the outcome of these races.
The Joint Diaspora Electoral Observation Mission, in which the Haiti Democracy Project participated, did not have observers in Carice but did have two accredited observers at the voting centers in question in Vallières, where they reported an attempt by partisans to disrupt the voting, an attempt that was thwarted by both the local population and MINUSTAH; as a result, the observers reported either no problems or only a number of minor ones that did not affect the integrity of the vote. Although the victory by Phanese Laguerre was very lopsided at 1,733-75, these are true results and these votes can be dequarantined and counted.