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La journaliste commence par citer l'article 35-7 de la Constitution de 1987 qui dit que le droit de propriété privée ne s'étend pas aux côtes, aux sources, aux rivières, aux cours d'eau, aux mines et aux carrières.
Elle restitue le lieu de la tuerie : un espace vert au-dessus de Marigot, un port de pêche, où se tient tous les samedis un marché très visité, notamment par les hôteliers qui viennent s'approvisionner en langoustes. Les pêcheurs ont demandé, depuis pas mal de temps, au gouvernement de les aider en leur facilitant le crédit afin d'améliorr leurs équipements et d'acheter une chambre froide. Le gouvernement a d'autres plans dans la région.
Pour les constructeurs d'hôtel toute cette zone représente un territoire "non développé".
Martelly, il y a un an avait fait une tournée de promotion du tourisme dans le sud-ouest. Max Chauvet, le président de l'association du tourisme
s'était plaint du manque d'hôtels en Haïti.
En fait, bien avant l'amendement de la constitution de 1987, des discussions sur la privatisation des plages étaient déja en cours.
L'explusion de ces habitants de La Visite s'est faite à partir d'une recommandation d'experts dont l'argument avancé était la présumée nécessité de protéger une source qui fournit un résevoir, lequel rréservoir alimente Jacmel, le Sud-Ouest, et même Port-au-Prince;
Aucune mention de relocation n'a été formulée par le gouvernement qui a proposé d 1160 dollars par famille.
Les gens ont calculé qu'avec une telle somme, il leur serait impossible d'acheter une terre. Ils ont refusé de partir.
Duvalier Jean-Claude avait tenté en 1980 de les expluser, en vain.
Lundi 23 juillet, vers midi, est arrivé un commando formé par 36 membres de l'Unité de police UDMO.
Les accompagnaient : Le Représentant de Jacmel Lafontant Pierre Michel, le chef de
police Ovilmar Sagesse, le Comissaire du gouvernement Antoine Jean Feraud, et des officiels de la mairie de Marigot. Il ne faut pas oublier que les fonctionnaires des mairies ont été remplacés
par du personnel appointé par la présidence.
A l'emploi de la force pour les expluser les résidents ont réagi en lançant des pierres.
Résultat de l'opération policière : 4 enfants et 8 adultes tués.
Les corps des enfants ont disparu.
Parmi les 8 adultes tués, 4 ont été identifiés :
Voici l'article en anglais :
Haiti Chery
“The right to own property does not extend to the coasts, springs, rivers, water courses, mines and quarries. They are part of the State’s public domain.” – Haitian 1987 Constitution, Section H, Article 36-5.
La Visite Park is a lush expanse of green that straddles the hills of Marigot and Kenskoff and overlooks Marigot, a picturesque fishing town near Haiti’s larger southeastern city of Jacmel. The area is reputed for its market-day Saturdays that attract people from far and wide, include the finest restauranteurs, who travel there to buy the best lobsters, fish and shellfish. The fishing is artisanal, and for some time the fishermen have been asking the government to assist them with credit, fishing equipment and modest facilities such as a refrigerated room. There has been no response. The government has other plans for the region.
There is tourism in Marigot: a few cabins for those visitors who are drawn to the area for its virgin coast and forests such as that of La Visite Park. To hotel builders, these wild places are merely “undeveloped” territory.
A year ago, Martelly toured Haiti’s Southeast to promote tourism, and he held a roundtable under the theme “The development of Jacmel and the surrounding area as a tourist destination.”
“We have a huge deficit of hotel rooms [in Haiti],”
complained Tourism Association President Max Chauvet. Even then, well before the amendments to the 1987 Constitution, there was already talk of private beaches.
During the week of July 15, 2012 Haiti’s Ministries of the Environment and of Public Security ordered a group of residents of La Visite Park to evacuate the area. This order had come from the government, presumably because it had been advised by experts that an eviction would be necessary to safeguard a watershed in the area — for a reservoir that feeds the Southeast and West Departments, including Jacmel and the capital city of Port-au-Prince — and prevent the water level from dropping.
There was no mention of a new location for the families to be displaced. To compensate for the lost homes, the government offered each family $1,160, to be disbursed in equal installments before and after the eviction. The residents calculated that the funds would not allow them to buy farm land in a different location, and they refused to leave. The families had received similar injunctions from Jean-Claude Duvalier’s dictatorship in the 1980’s. They had always resisted.
On Monday July 23, around noon, a group of 36 commandos from the Departmental Unit for Maintenance of Order (UDMO), together with Jacmel Representative Lafontant Pierre Michel, Police Chief Ovilmar Sagesse, Government Commissioner Antoine Jean Feraud, and local officials of the Marigot City Hall (recall that all municipal officials have been replaced by presidential appointees) arrived in La Visite Park to evict 142 families. The families had lived there since 1942 in an area called Galèt Sèk, which belongs to a larger neighborhood called Seguin à Chevale.
When the commandos tried to remove the residents by force, they fought back with stones in a battle that lasted 4 hours. Dozens were injured. Initial reports noted that 4 children were shot dead along with 8 adults. Among the dead are:
The children’s bodies have disappeared.
Police Chief Ovilmar Sagesse initially denied that anyone had been killed. He told the press that 5 policemen had been injured by stones, and the operation had to be aborted to avoid loss of life (July 25 AHP).
In addition to the human loss, three houses were burned to the ground, numerous others were ransacked, and four oxen were killed. According to well-known Jacmel resident Mr. Frisnel Ticon, a significant area of trees and shrubs was also burned (July 27 HPN).
Since the massacre, a delegation from MINUSTAH’s communications office, UN police, and Civil Affairs visited the site and spent several hours in discussion with community leaders, the victims’ families and grieving neighbors. To represent the victims, the townspeople formed a four-member committee:
So far no date has been set for a meeting of the community with the Haitian government. Since the massacre, no Haitian official has appeared in Seguin.
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