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April
28, 2001
Top Aristide Senator Is Questioned in Assassination
Plot Against Former President Préval
Lavalas
Family Party Said to Resent Préval's Support
of Dominique Murder Investigation
Senator Joseph Médard
is questioned in assassination plot against former president
René and other leaders of the KOZEPEP peasant
organization.
A peasant leader of the
organization, Charles Suffrard, told Judge Claudy Gassant
of the threats particularly in the Artibonite coming
from the Lavalas Family's local power holders. Top Lavalas
Party people were reportedly criticizing former president
Préval for encouraging a judicial inquiry that
could implicate top officials of the current government.
KOZEPEP leaders say they are the victims of an underground
campaign. They say the organization is unaffiliated
and has no allegiance to Aristide's party or to him
personally. Senator Médard's mission according
to KOZEPEP was to eliminate the organization and its
leading personnel.
What they particularly
held against former president Préval was the
investigation of the murder of Jean Dominique.
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· James
R. Morrell, executive director