Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

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He got The Nobel Peace Prize 1980.

He said: « Our hands seek to speak the language of those who labor, to add to the effort to construct a new world solidarity founded on love, justice, liberty and truth » (in the Nobellecture, December 1980).

Read the article ‘Eternal Debts‘, by Adolfo Perez Esquivel, August 2004. Same in german, in french, in russian, in spanish, in arabian.
He wrote:  » … you closed your ears and your heart when the United Nations, churches, humanitarian and human rights organizations demanded that the rule of law and the consideration of the people had to prevail. You were not interested in hearing it » … (in A Letter to President Bush, April 30, 2003).

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Brazil

As a child, he admired peace heroes like Mahatama Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. As an adult, he desired to put his faith into action as he had seen these men do. In the early 1970s, he traveled to Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Honduras to work for peace with local movements, often aiding poor peasants in their struggles against the large landowners. In 1976, he was arrested in Ecuador and expelled from the country during a pilgrimage across Latin America. He was arrested again on April 4, 1977 in Argentina, where he was detained for fourteen months without a trial and was subjected to psychological and physical torture.

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First my remark: we are not willing and not able to imagine fellows abel to create such an horror (including the biggest question of all, why the United States would do this to itself). Maybe a bad guy like Osama, but not some compatriots living with us. We do not WANT imagine they could create this horror, just to allow them war-on-terror, with hope for world power .

But who said, facts go always much farer than our imagination?

So let’s look at some questions:

Dylan Avery, together with Korey Rove and Jason Bermas put a puzzle of questions together to a film named Loose Change2. You can download it on 911 blogger.com.

Dylan Avery – USA

FIVE years after September 11, more than one-third of Americans believe the US Government was complicit in the attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. This extraordinary reaction to one of the most widely witnessed, reported and investigated incidents of modern times has been fuelled by what adherents like to call the « 9/11 Truth Movement ». (Read all on adelaide now, Sept. 11, 2006).

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She says: « At some point, I realized that other women were not there—that I was alone in all the meetings ». And: « Why should their (women’s) ideas be left behind? I always remind people that we can’t ignore 54 percent of the country—whether in the army, in the police, in decision making. We are leaving a big part of the population out. I say all the time, don’t look at them as women, look at them as … people! As Rwandans ». (See on women waging peace).

Rose Kabuye – Rwanda

go to Harvard’s JFK Jr. Forum Video and Podcast Archive, click there on the Nov 13, 2001 video: ‘Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies‘, and listen to it (1h 21 minutes).

A difference that Kabuye has already made is with talking to women from other conflict areas. “In the course of a day, I work with women from both [Hutu and Tutsi] groups. We get new ideas and hear about new ways to tackle the obstacles we face.” Rwandans throughout the country have been trying to bridge the divide between Hutus and Tutsis.

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He is Professor of Journalism – Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA), Senior journalist and news editor of The Chronicle (Zimbabwe).

Read his today’s article: Mugabe has planted the seeds of mass protest in Zimbabwe on Africa database-people.

Stanford G. Mukasa – Zimbabwe

Read his (not dated) article: Press and Politics in Zimbabwe.

Bio: Dr. Mukasa was for four years a senior journalist and news editor of The Chronicle, a daily newspaper in Zimbabwe. He also covered the war between government troops and rebels in western Zimbabwe. During his post doctoral program at Ohio State University, Dr. Mukasa conducted a survey research on the role of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the productive capacities of low-income farmers in eastern and southern Ohio. He co-authored with Professor Lee Becker of Ohio State University a research report on Africa’s information and communication education resources and needs. Prior to joining IUP, Dr. Mukasa was visiting assistant professor of communications at Bethany College, West Virginia.

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Linked with HURAH INC. Human Rights Accompaniment In Haiti, with Shocking Lancet Study about Haiti, with The economic development program for Haiti, and with Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.

Linked also with Paul Farmer – USA / Haiti, with Marie Carmèle Rose-Anne Auguste – Haiti, and with Haiti’s Election – Looking Back.

He is a french lawyer and the the director of the human rights section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

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. And UNHCHR Field Offices Contacts.

He says: « Since the beginning of the procedure until today, the fundamental rights, according to national and international standards, have not been respected in the case of Mr. Neptune and Privert », … and: « I would like to tell those people they should also pay particular attention to the fact that the judicial treatment of Mr. Neptune and Mr. Privert has proved to be illegal since their arrest, » … and: « more than 95 percent of Haiti’s prisoners are kept in prolonged custody without seeing a judge ». (See the whole article on Peninsula, May 4, 2005).

Sorry, I found no photo of Thierry Fagart. But this picture about the situation in Haiti (by the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti).

Read Haiti Report May 2006.

The Politics of Finger Wagging, Canada, the UN and « Judicial Reform » in Haiti, by Stuart Neatby, April 19, 2006, ZNet.

Thierry Fagart pointed out at a news conference that the Haitian Constitution calls for suspects to be tried in the criminal court sessions with a jury in cases of alleged « blood crimes » (the term « blood crimes » is not defined in the Constitution but is often construed as crimes resulting in death).

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