ARREST OF HAITIAN STUDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES

Created: 2/14/1963

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ARREST OP* HAITIAN STUDENTS IN CONNECTION WITHOVERNMENT ACTIVITItS

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I, OWING THE EVENING OfND THE FOLLOWINGUNDETERMINED NUMBERTUDENTS WERE ARRESTED"BY THE

AUTHORITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE CIRCULATION IN PORT AU PRINCE OFOVERNMENT LEAFLETS AND THE WRITING OF "DOWN WITH DUVALIER" ON THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS. ONE STUDENT WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN BEATEN TO DEATH AND MANY WERE TORTURED, HcOmmENT,

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RACTS WITH THE MESSAGE "HAVE CONFIDENCE, HAITIAN PEOPLE, THE TYRANNICAL REGIME OF DUVALIER IS AT AN END" AND "DOWN WITH DUVALIER, LONG LIVE LIBERTY" WERE BEING WIDELY CIRCULATED IN PORT AU PRINCE. THEY WEREHICH PRESUMABLY

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STANDS FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC UNION, AN EXILE ORGANIZATION HEADED BY THE BROTHERS ROGER AND PIERRE RIGAUD. 2. DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS, THERE HAVE BEEN AN UNUSUAL NUM8ER OF REPORTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY INVOLVING PERSONS WHO APPARENTLY WERE NOT INVOLVED IN POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.)

2. ONOUR HAITIAN STUDENTS WERE ARRESTED WHILE IN CLASS. EDGAR FLAVIEN, STUDENT AT THE ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE, AND POMPONEAU (FIRST NAMETUDENT AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL,

COMMENT: EDGAR FLAVIEN IS A

WERE AMONG THOSE ARRESTED. {

MEMBER OF THE PARTI POPULAlRE DE LIBERATION NATIONALE (PPLN-PEOPLES NATIONAL LIBERATIONNE OF HAITI'S TWO CCM-fJNlSTHE IDENTITIES OF THE OTHER TWO STUDENTS WERE UNKNOWN. ESULT OF THESE ARRESTS, THEREREAT DEAL OF UNREST AMONG STUDENTS IN PORT AU PRINCE. MANY STUOENTS WERE SAYING THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD GIVEN ORDERS TO SHOOT ON SIGHT PERSONS CAUGHT POSSESSINGOVERNMENT TRACTS.

3. STATE, ARMY, CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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