Hébert Valmond

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Hébert Valmond (* 1949 or 1950; † January 18, 2018 ) was a colonel and head of Haiti's military intelligence service during the military dictatorship between 1991 and 1994 in Haiti.

As commander of the Haitian Navy, Valmond was one of the leading military officers who, under General Raoul Cédras, put forward in 1991 against the first democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide , and ruled the country under a military dictatorship until 1994. He was on the of the on April 24, 1994 Forces Armées d'Haïti and paramilitaries committed Raboteau massacre involved, in which, according to estimates about 20 people were killed.

He was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on November 16, 2000 by a Haitian court .

Valmond lived in Tampa after the end of the military dictatorship and was extradited to Haiti by the US government in January 2003. However, during a military revolt, he escaped from a detention center on February 29, 2004.

His grave is in the Parc du Souvenir in Tabarre in the Arrondissement of Port-au-Prince .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Décès de M. le Colonel Hebert Valmond. paxvillahaiti.com, January 27, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Normman Kempster: Haitian Troops Oust Officers as Revolt widens. Los Angeles Times , September 21, 1988; accessed August 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Haitian military officers Deported. UPI , January 28, 2003, accessed August 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Andrew Reding: Democracy and Human Rights in Haiti. ( Memento of January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) World Policy Institute, World Policy Report March 2004
  5. ↑ HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Letter to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rumsfeld March 10, 2004
  6. ↑ Michael Deibert: Former military officers deported to Haiti January 28, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Valmond, Hébert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian intelligence chief
DATE OF BIRTH 1949 or 1950
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2018