Jean-Pierre Baptiste

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Jean-Pierre Baptiste , who also operated under the combat name Jean Tatoune , was from 1991 to 1994 commander of a unit of the Haitian death squad FRAPH .

Life

In 1985 Baptiste made headlines when he openly expressed contempt for the Haitian regime and the president. He organized demonstrations against the corrupt and dictatorial rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier . In 1994 he also led a revolt that led to the Raboteau massacre , in which several people were murdered. These were supporters of the first democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide . He organized his actions from his hometown Gonaïves . For his involvement in this action, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on November 9, 2000 by the Gonaïves Criminal Court. He escaped from prison in August 2002 during a mass breakout. Baptiste later joined the Artibonite Resistance Front group.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art. Haitian human rights violators . In: Leslie Alan Horvitz, Christopher Catherwood: Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide . Facts On File, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4381-1029-5 , pp. 192-195, here p. 194 ( paragraph Tatoune, Jean ).
  2. ↑ Kirk Semple: Haiti's Struggle to Restore the Rule of Law . In: The New York Times . March 29, 2004, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).
  3. ↑ Jean Pierre Baptiste (alias Jean Tatoune) Biography. In: Haiti Observer. November 5, 2012, accessed August 29, 2015 .
  4. ^ Letter to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rumsfeld. In: hrw.org. March 10, 2004, accessed August 29, 2015 .
  5. ^ Haiti: Recycled Soldiers and Paramilitaries on the March. In: hrw.org. February 27, 2004, accessed August 29, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Baptiste, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jean Tatoune (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian paramilitary and commander of FRAPH
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century