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Znet Article Concannon: Hatian Massacre Victims Win Historic Victories in U.S. Courts

Znet Article, June, 29 2008 Brian Concannon
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On May 16, a group of massacre survivors from one of Haiti's poorest neighborhoods gave the world a lesson in persistence. After a 14-year fight for justice in Haitian and United States courts, they collected $400,000 in court-awarded compensation...

Znet Article Concannon: Making Our Country Safe For Democracy in Haiti

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Brian Concannon
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[These are Brian Concannon Jr.'s remarks at the 2006 TransAfrica Forum Annual Foreign Policy Conference, Washington, DC. Panel: Haiti: From a Human Rights and Foreign Policy Debacle Towards a Democratic Justice and Peace. April 1, 2006] I would...

Znet Article Concannon: Haiti's Elections

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 Brian Concannon
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[Note: This is an update of Concannon's earlier election analysis, which was also posted to ZNet] On February 7, Haitian voters went to the polls to elect a president for the fourth time since 1990. Through great patience and determination they o...

Znet Article Concannon: Counting Some of the Votes in Haiti

Znet Article, February, 14 2006 Brian Concannon
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[Note: Rene Preval was declared the winner on Feb 16, 2006, but this analysis remains an important record - ZNet]. Haiti’s elections on February 7 went well enough that the post-election vote counting should have been uncontroversial.  T...

Znet Article Concannon: Election Day and Beyond

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Brian Concannon
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If Haiti’s much awaited (and four times postponed) elections take place on February 7, many questions will be answered: are the reduced number of voting centers sufficient, as the government promises? Did the troubled process of registerin...

Znet Article Concannon: Jean Juste Released

Znet Article, January, 29 2006 Brian Concannon
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We have great news: Political prisoner Fr. Gerard-Jean-Juste, “Fr. Gerry” is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attent...

Znet Article Concannon: Haiti's Court System

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Brian Concannon
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Haiti's Judicial and Executive Branches are both getting what they deserve this holiday season- each other. After 22 months of close collaboration to trample Haiti's Constitution and democracy, they have now turned their destructive energies on ea...

Znet Article Concannon: Haiti's Elections

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 Brian Concannon
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Haiti's election dates have now been reset for the fourth time in the last five months. The Interim Government of Haiti (IGH) will now miss the February 7, 2005 deadline for transferring power that it had promised to meet for 21 months. These dela...

Znet Article Concannon: In Principle

Znet Article, May, 08 2005 Brian Concannon
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When Haitians say "an prensip" (in principle) to explain how something should work, "an pratik," how it works in actual practice, is rarely far behind. An prensip, the bus leaves in ten minutes, an pratik the driver will wait for the seats to comp...

Znet Article Concannon: Haiti's Constitution and the Coup

Znet Article, June, 01 2004 Brian Concannon
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In the debate over Haiti's events of February 29, we have heard from almost all angles. We have heard from opponents and supporters of the elected government and its replacement, and from officials from France, the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa. ...

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