Haitian Betrayal: Preval and Disappearing Lavalas

by Ezili Danto

Under this new occupation following the bloody US-imposed Boca Raton regime, they are not incarcerating the heads of Lavalas; under President Preval's reign, they are executing them, one by one...first Lovinsky, now it's Dr. Maryse Narcisse has been disappeared.

 

 

Help raise the international concern and visibility of this human rights violation case. Help save the life Maryse Narcisse, stop her torture, prevent her execution. Return her to her family.

 

HLLN's Urgent Action Requested, Oct. 29, 2007 (US Contact information is on our website, Haitian contact info

in this post:

- HLLN Urgent Action Alert on the abduction of Dr. Maryse Narcisse

- Bio of Maryse Narcisse (in French)

HLLN Urgent Action Alert - October 29, 2007

Maryse Narcisse has been disappeared, taken by armed men in front of her house, as of yesterday, October 28, 2007 between 7 and 8 pm.

According to sources HLLN spoke to in Haiti, the police have been apprised and are working on the matter.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

Dr. Maryse Narcisse was appointed spokesperson for President Aristide after the 2004 coup d'etat and is currently an executive member of the Ruling Lavalas Executive Committee for Fanmi Lavalas. She was forceably taken, by a group of armed men, as she reached her home, after leaving a meeting with So Ann and others of Fanmi Lavalas. Sources report they abducted her and rushed off in their car with her.

Initially there was no ransom demand and it was a clear political removal. But, according to our latest information, a ransom demand has been made for $300,000 and the criminals are said to sound to be in a hurry...

 

Perhaps the sudden request is a cover to confuse and mask the political nature of the dissappearance, as it was when Lovinsky was dissappeared. Time will tell. HLLN hopes and prays that the Dr. Maryse Narcisse abduction is not a political disappearance as with the Lovinsky case and that Dr. Maryse Narcisse will be safely returned, after payment of a ransom, to her loved ones and to continue her advocacy work defending Haitian rights and the poor majority against imperialism, UN occupation, a racist global economic system and dictatorship.

We will, as always, keep our Network updated as we get further information.

But if any in our Netwrok should become aware of any information on this dissappearance, please contact: Marguerite Laurent, Esq. Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it



1. Call Amnesty International at 212-807-8400, Human Rights Watch at
212-290-4700, The International Committee of the Red Cross (www.icrc.org) at 202 293 9430 and Reporters Without Borders (www.rsf.org) at 917-239-0653


2. CALL AND WRITE Your REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS
Ask them to write and call the office of:

Thomas Shannon
Bureau of the Western Hemisphere
US Department of State

Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121


3. Call the authorities in Haiti, at (011):

Haitian Ministry of Justice - 509-245-0474

Direction Departementale De L'Ouest ("D.D.O") - (509) 555-53-06,

Commissaire Frantz Thermilus, Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire - ("DCPJ") - (509) 478-75-97

Commissaire du BAC : (509) 714- 9806

Police's Departmental Unit for the Maintenance of Order - ("UDMO") - (509) 404-8026,

PNH DELMAS (509) 246-90-91, (509) 228-2262,

Minustha Spokesperson in Haiti: (509) 478-6299.


4 . Call and write the United Nations: 212-963-4879, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
PHONE: 011.509.244.9650.9660
FAX: 011.509.244.9366/67
Or, Fax, Office of General Secretary (New York) - 212.963.4879


Hon. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General
United Nations
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; press office: (509) 510-2563 ext. : 6343


United States Embassy
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Telephones: 011-509-223-4711, or 222-0200 or 0354
Fax: 011-509-223-1641 or 9038


5. Send a copies of letters to your local and national media. (cc: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) See also, HLLN's COMPREHENSIVE CONTACT LIST FOR HAITI WORK




Thank you so very much for taking immediate action that could help save the life of Dr. Maryse Narcisse. (For a biography of Maryse Narcisse, go here.)


Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
October 29, 2007, 11:43am


Dr Maryse Narcisse
Biographie
Membre du Cabinet Particulier du President
Jean Bertrand Aristide


Dr Maryse Narcisse, membre du Cabinet Particulier du President Jean Bertrand Aristide en charge de questions sociales et des dossiers de sante publique.


Avant de rejoindre le Cabinet Particulier du President, elle a travaille de nombreuses annees tant dans le secteur public que prive, occupant progressivement des hautes fonctions au niveau du a Ministere de la Sante Publique et de la Population ainsi que au Ministre des Affaires Etrange.

Elle fut successivement coordonatrice nationale du Programme Elargi de Vaccination, Directeur a la direction 'Education et de Developpement des Ressources Humaines et Directeur Général au Ministare de la Sante Publique et de la Population. Dr Narcisse a particip activement a la planification, à l’evaluation et à la formation du personnel de santé pour la première campagne nationale de vaccination en Haiti. Comme Directeur Général au Ministère de la Santé Publique, elle a géré le Ministère et coordonné le developpement et l’implantation de normes au niveau national. Nommé Ministre Conseiller à la Mission Permanente d’Haiti auprès des Nations Unies, le focus de son travail a été les questions sociales telles éducation, santé, droits humains et la question du genre.

Dans le secteur privé, elle a collaboré avec le SOE comme directeur d’un projet integré de santé dans l’Artibonite, avec l’OMS comme consultant national du Programme Elargi de Vaccination et du Programme de Contrôle des Maladies Diarrheiques, puis à Save the Children où elle occupa le poste de Directeur technique en Santé. Elle a participé au développement du premier guide national de traitement des Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles. Dans les conditions très difficiles qui suivirent le coup d’état de 1991, elle forma une coalition de 10 ONGs travaillant dans les communautés rurales du Plateau Central pour developper des interventions pour la prévention du SIDA. Avec des partenaires, elle a fondé MEDICORPS une firme de consultation pour l’évaluation des programmes de santé.

Dr Narcisse a consacré une partie de sa carrière à la Recherche au « Département de la Santé de l’Etat de New York », particulièrement dans le développement et l’implantation de projets de recherche et d’évaluation.

Durant toute sa carrière, Dr Narcisse a toujours montré un interêt particulier pour le développement des communautés rurales et la promotion des projets ciblant les femmes. Elle a participé à de nombreuses conférences internationales où elle a présenté des sujets comme la vaccination, la prévention du Sida et des maladies sexuellement transmissibles. Détentrice d’un diplome de docteur en médecine de l’Université d’Etat d’Haiti et d’une maitrise en Santé Publique de Tulane University aux Etats Unies, elle termine un doctorat en Santé Publique option Epidémiologie et planifie de présenter sa thèse d’ici 2005.


Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html


See also: Lage Lovinsky - Free Lovinsky
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