Haiti Democracy Project

A Continuation of the Haiti Project of the Center for International Policy
   

June 4, 2001

Marie Clotilde Charlot

Gaviria and Einaudi Scheming to Deal Haitian Democracy a Major Blow at the OAS Meeting in Costa Rica

May 31, 2001

President Aristide

 

 

 

New Promises for OAS

June 5, 2001


May 31, 2001

Dany Toussaint Indicted—AFP

 

Agence France-press reports close Aristide associate Dany Toussaint has been indicted in the murder of Jean Dominique. No confirmation from the judge. Toussaint cannot be formally indicted if he claims parliamentary immunity.
Toussaint denounces plot to frame him. Says Préval, Robert Manuel, and U.S. embassy all out to get him
"Does Dany Toussaint take us for a bunch of ignorant savages?" So asked Jean Dominique four months before his death. So asks his radio station now

More on Dominique investigation


June 1, 2001
Palace: Avril Was Arrested Properly
British Haiti Support Group Welcomes Arrest

May 29, 2001

Amnesty International

 

Annual Report 2000
The human rights situation deteriorated sharply, despite some positive steps towards accounting for past human rights violations. The electoral period was marred by assassinations of public figures and by violent attacks by political partisans, most often self-described supporters of the Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party. Illegal security forces acting under the auspices of newly-elected local and regional officials emerged.
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September 10, 2001

Study Finds Unexpected Non-Lavalas Strength in May 2000 First Round

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James R. Morrell

Paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

Non-FL senatorial candidates outpolled FL in four of eight departments.
Votes discarded by top-four method exceeded votes won by either FL senatorial candidate in six of eight departments.
Review of tallies finds greater diversity among electorate than first reported.

February 5, 2001
Statement of Human Rights Organizations
President-elect Aristide's stated commitment to remedy Haiti's current problems will only be meaningful if it is borne out by genuine reform efforts.


January 18 , 2001

Civil Society Initiative
Appeal for Solution of the Crisis
February 26, 2001
State Department
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—2000
August 2000
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Haiti's Aristide had the votes to win, yet cheated and so drained his win of legitimacy. By James R. Morrell. International Policy Report, .

Français: A vouloir toujours plus, voilà ce qui arrive...

July 13, 2000
The OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Haiti: Chief of Mission Report to the Permanent Council
 
March, 1999
Haiti: The Limits to Nation-building

How Haiti's impervious politics has blocked economic progress. By James Morrell, Hugh Byrne, and Rachel Neild

 

Novembre 2000
Organisation Fanmi Lavalas
Government Plan
"Investir dans l’Humain.”

Programme Économique et Social, 2001-2006.

 

 

Secret report of the presidential commission on the disputed 1997 elections.

A CIP-web-page exclusive. Français:

A little background:

(Also known as C.P.A. or former Lissade Commission report. Written in 1998, published in 1999.)

Perspective on Elections in Haiti. By Prof. Henry F. Carey.
Published by the University of California