IRB - Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada: Whether threats of holding schoolchildren hostage have been made by former Tontons Macoutes, 1991 [HTI7972], 04 March 1991 (available at ecoi.net)
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Whether threats of holding schoolchildren hostage have been made by former Tontons Macoutes, 1991 [HTI7972]
Please find attached a transcript of an
interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide (currently president of
Haiti) as published in the Latin America Daily Report
("Aristide Implicates Macoutes in Drug Dealings", Port-au-Prince
Radio Metropole [in French], FBIS-LAT-91-011, 16 January 1991,
p. 8). In this interview, Aristide reportedly says that "the
Macoutes have decided to kidnap them [schoolchildren] so that
Lafontant can be free".
The New York office of the National
Coalition for Haitian Refugees stated in a telephone communication
with the IRBDC on 4 March 1991 that threats of schoolchildren
kidnapping by former Tontons Macoutes were reported a few months
ago, although not by the written media available to it. The source
added that the threats were not carried out.
The Washington Office on Haiti stated in a
telephone communication with the IRBDC that schools were closed in
December 1990 following the spread of a rumour that former Tontons
Macoutes would kidnap schoolchildren to undermine the electoral
process.
Additional information on the subject could
not be found among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC.
