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style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" lang="FR">Rocky <span
style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pierre</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Public Prosecutor of St Marc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">First <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Instance Court</st1:address></st1:Street> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Rue P. Pinchinat, Saint-Marc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">To Mr. Rocky Pierre, the Public
Prosecutor<b style="">,<u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">The National Human Rights Defense
Network (RNDDH) acknowledges
your correspondence addressed to Vilès Alizar, Program Director, dated
May 4,
2007, which was later broadcasted on various radio stations within the
capital
on May 5, 2007, in which you demanded him to rectify his statement
regarding
what RNDDH called “<b style=""><i style="">the shameful release.</i></b>”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">RNDDH considers this demand as an
intimidation attempt,
and a petty way to scorn the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">After having retraced your career
as a magistrate, you
declared: “This information was revealed so that all may know I have
never
committed any distortions within the duties of my position.” RNDDH
holds you to
the standard set forth in this declaration. Unfortunately, due to the
various
complaints compiled against you throughout your turbulent career, you
do not
meet this standard. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">You act as if you were a victim
of a political
maneuver after the Minister of Justice, Jean Baptiste Brown, dismissed
you on
August 5, 2002 for having executed a release order without even
indicating the
name of the accused. If you were referring to the release of Elie
Pierre
(killed on Rue Frère during a shootout between rival gangs on April 3,
2006),
RNDDH would like to be informed of whose judicial decision it was. You
claim
that you have been cleared of any wrongdoing in this case, but was
there an
administrative investigation carried out by a commission? If so, where
is the
report of its findings? You said that you were reintegrated into your
duties on
April 13, 2003 as a public prosecutor within the Croix-des-Bouquets
First <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Instance Court</st1:address></st1:Street>
by the
Minister of Justice, Calixte Delatour (who was accused in the <b
style="">La Scierie</b> massacre). How did it come
about that the Minister Henri Marge Dorleans demoted you to become the
Saint
Marc Assistant Public Prosecutor? Does a reintegration into the
judicial system
mean an official has been washed of a stain? It seems, Mr. Pierre, that
in your
declaration, you have already forgotten the “good old days” of the
so-called
“three musketeers” of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Port-au-Prince</st1:City></st1:place>
jurisdiction; a well known lawyer, a judge dismissed on an account of
corruption, and an Assistant Public Prosecutor silenced in the
countryside.
According to many reports, the “musketeers” were responsible for the
scandalous
release of drug traffickers and other dangerous professional criminals
in
exchange for large sums of money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">You act as if you were defending “<b
style=""><i style="">society’s</i>” </b>position in
the case of <i style="">Amanus Mayette</i>, by
demanding the punishment of the authors, co-authors and accomplices of
the <b style="">La Scierie </b>case in conformation with
the law. Yet on the day of the hearing, you yourself brought the “<b
style=""><i style="">decision</i></b>”
to the Minister of Justice to release <i style="">Mayette</i>
by means of <i style="">Habeus Corpus</i>. To this
effect, you have proven yourself to be more diligent than the lawyers
of the
accused. In addition, to justify your release order, your requisition
demanded
the correction of “omissions and errors” that were committed in the
treatment
of the <b style="">La Scierie</b> massacre case,
which is pending in the appeals court - this is irrefutable proof that
in
today’s society, the sheep are being watched by the wolves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Regarding RNDDH’s position on the
<b style="">La Scierie</b> case, which you deemed worthy of critique,
we did not
wish to be controversial with any state authority; however, RNDDH
believes that
the Haitian people have a right to the truth on what actually happened
in <b style="">La Scierie,</b> and that the victims of the
massacre merit justice and reparations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Along with the state officials
and other government actors
who met for the Conference of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the “</span><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Déclaration de Nuevo León,</span><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">” RNDDH agrees that: “<b style=""><i
style="">Corruption and impunity weakens
public and private institutions; diminishes social values; brings
conflict to
the state of law; and introduces distortions in the economic resources
and repartitions
destined for development</i></b>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" lang="FR">RNDDH
hopes that you will receive its most patriotic
greetings. <o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" lang="FR">Pierre
E<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">spérance<span style="">
</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Book Antiqua";" lang="FR">Executive
Director<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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