Antoine Izméry
Antoine Izméry (died 11 September 1993) was a Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist.[1]
Career
Izméry, who was of
When Aristide, having been elected President, was toppled and forced into exile by the 1991 Haitian coup d'état on 30 September 1991, Izméry founded the KOMEVEB (Komite Mete men pou Verite Blayi) organisation, which attempted to discover and publicise the events surrounding the coup and see the return of democratic government. In 1992, Izméry's brother, Georges, was assassinated by a paramilitary death squad associated with the new regime. Antoine Izméry subsequently lodged a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights over the death, which sparked a sharply critical resolution from the commission.
Murder
On 11 September 1993, Antoine Izméry attended a mass that had been organised by KOMEVEB to commemorate the 1988
Trial
In September 1995, after Aristide had been returned to power, fourteen people, including former paramilitary leader
In early 2004, both Chamblain and Joanis turned themselves in to the new regime, which they were both supporters of, and on 17 August 2004, they were both retried. In a trial lasting only one night, the pair were acquitted. Only one witness testified for the prosecution, and the conduct of the trial came in for sharp international criticism from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty International. Amnesty International claimed that key witnesses remained in hiding for fear of their lives, that evidence against the men from the first trial had disappeared, and that no attempt had been made to arrest the other twelve men from the original trial.
Izmery is survived by five children, three girls and two boys.
Film
• Rezistans – a documentary about Antoine Izméry and the resistance against the 1991 coup d’ etat – 1997, in English, 158 min, by Katherine Kean
External links
- National Human Rights Defense Network : Press release on murder trial
- Amnesty International Library : Haïti : Perpetrators of past abuses threaten human rights and the reestablishment of the rule of law.
- GreenTit Blog : Haïti's brutal history largely of our making[dead link]
- IJDH : Haïti Assassination Trial An Affront to All Those Who Have Worked and Died for Justice
References
- ^ ISBN 0226776263. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
Antoine Izméry haitian.