[NYTr] Message from Children of Disappeared Haitian Human Rights leader
 
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:54:45 -0500 (CDT)

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sent by Haiti Action Committee - Oct 11, 2007 

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine / action still needed via faxes and calls

Below: Sign online petition for the safe return of Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine - missing for 2 months since August 12, 2007

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHILDREN OF DISAPPEARED HAITIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER
LOVINSKY PIERRE-ANTOINE

Our names are Stiphane and Olivier Pierre-Antoine, the children of
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.

This week will be the sixth one that we spend without our father, who is
kept hostage and it has been more than 42 days since we did not receive
any notice from him being alive.  The hours and the days go by without
anyone, except his close relatives, seeming to worry about his fate.

We have felt a big void in our hearts since this disappearance.  This
deplorable situation prevent us from sleeping, eating and forces us to
concentrate our thoughts on the slow agony that our father is living.
Deprived of freedom, our father incurs the risks to catch diseases, to
be victim of physical violence by his abductors and to have his spirit
devoured by despair.

We ask you, who probably are fathers and mothers, to listen to the
words of two teenagers who crave the presence of their father.  Listen
well to this outcry of pain and anguish that comes directly from our
heart.  It is not only our father that we miss, we are also deprived of
our dear friend, of our counselor and of our spiritual guide.  We ask
the authorities of the country and the Haitian people to do all this
that is in their power to free our dad.  We particularly ask his
abductors to grant us the return of our daddy who is so dear to us.

Even if we are aware that a release is a complex and long process, it
has been more than a month than we did not see our dad and we want to
insist on the unbearable wait that we are confronted with.  In the name
of Human Rights and of the inherent duty to save people in lethal
danger, we massively call on the Haitian authorities and the
international community to help us find the means that will allow the
release of our dad.

We do not doubt that in the future, all efforts will be set in motion to
make the release of our dear dad an absolute priority.  We wish for
energetic and effective measures to be deployed to this end.  We take
this opportunity to cordially thank all those who, in a way or another,
brought us their moral support during this sad period of our life.

Stiphane Pierre-Antoine  and  Olivier Pierre-Antoine

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Urgent help needed to ensure the safe return
of Haitian human rights activist
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

Dear Friends,

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the internationally respected Haitian human
rights activist, has been missing in Haiti since 12 August.

This is an appeal to call for his safe return to his family and to his
human rights work, to be sent to President Rene Preval of Haiti, as
well as to the Brazilian, Canadian & US High Commissions, Embassies,
Consulates in whatever countries we find ourselves.  These governments
play a key role in relation to the UN forces (headed by Brazil) which
have taken responsibility for law and order in Haiti. 

The link to the online petition is:
http://www.petitiononline.com/august/petition.html

Background and full background are available here:

HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE ALERT: Where is Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine? 8/18/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070813/066885.html

Haiti: please help save the life of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine 8/29/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070827/067388.html

Civil rights worker kidnapped in Haiti 9/3/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070903/067680.html

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