Raboteau

“Baptiste and Chamblain were convicted in absentia for massacring 25 Aristide supporters in a seaside slum known as Raboteau in the northern city of Gonaives in 1994.”

ANC Today 2004

“Baptiste and Chamblain were convicted in absentia for massacring 25 Aristide supporters in a seaside slum known as Raboteau in the northern city of Gonaives in 1994.”

ANC Today 2004

As the troops and vigilantes kicked down doors and rounded up suspected Aristide sympathizers in the pitch darkness, hundreds of Raboteau slum dwellers fled toward the waters of the Caribbean.

Is The United States A Haven For Torturers? 2007

In December 1997, a Haitian magistrate issued arrest warrants for Duperval, Cedras and eight other military officers on charges of murder, attempted murder, torture and other crimes stemming from the Raboteau massacre.

Is The United States A Haven For Torturers? 2007

Morning had not yet dawned over the seedy shacks of Raboteau when the soldiers and paramilitary thugs arrived in pickup trucks and fanned out through the fetid streets of the beachfront slum.

Is The United States A Haven For Torturers? 2007

"It is disheartening to learn that at least 36 Haitian perpetrators of extrajudicial killing and torture have found their way into this country, including those connected both by deeds and orders in the Raboteau massacre," says Krieger, president of the Boynton Beach, Fla. -based nonprofit group International Educational Missions.

Is The United States A Haven For Torturers? 2007

Throughout the Cedras era, the port city of Gonaives had remained a bastion of support for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president toppled by the Haitian military in 1991 -- and nowhere did pro-Aristide sentiment run higher than among the destitute fishermen and storekeepers of Raboteau.

Is The United States A Haven For Torturers? 2007

Gen. Jean-Claude Duperval is accused of having participated in the Raboteau massacre, in Gonaives, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, on April 22, 1994, under the military regime of coup-leader Raoul Cedras.

Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives 2002

On September 29 of last year a Haitian court began trying Constant on charges of murder, attempted murder, and being an accomplice to murder and torture — charging him, in effect, with the Raboteau massacre.

Giving "The Devil" His Due 2001

Though there was no evidence that Constant had been on the scene at Raboteau, Concannon said, there was indisputable evidence that FRAPH members participated in the attack and systematically terrorized the community.

Giving "The Devil" His Due 2001