[rnddh-press] Open Letter, May 9, 2007

[RNDDH Info]

Rocky Pierre

Public Prosecutor of St Marc

First Instance Court

Rue P. Pinchinat, Saint-Marc

 

To Mr. Rocky Pierre, the Public Prosecutor*,__*

 

The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) acknowledges your 
correspondence addressed to Vilès Alizar, Program Director, dated May 4, 
2007, which was later broadcasted on various radio stations within the 
capital on May 5, 2007, in which you demanded him to rectify his 
statement regarding what RNDDH called "*/the shameful release./*"

 

RNDDH considers this demand as an intimidation attempt, and a petty way 
to scorn the truth.

 

After having retraced your career as a magistrate, you declared: "This 
information was revealed so that all may know I have never committed any 
distortions within the duties of my position." RNDDH holds you to the 
standard set forth in this declaration. Unfortunately, due to the 
various complaints compiled against you throughout your turbulent 
career, you do not meet this standard.

 

You act as if you were a victim of a political maneuver after the 
Minister of Justice, Jean Baptiste Brown, dismissed you on August 5, 
2002 for having executed a release order without even indicating the 
name of the accused. If you were referring to the release of Elie Pierre 
(killed on Rue Frère during a shootout between rival gangs on April 3, 
2006), RNDDH would like to be informed of whose judicial decision it 
was. You claim that you have been cleared of any wrongdoing in this 
case, but was there an administrative investigation carried out by a 
commission? If so, where is the report of its findings? You said that 
you were reintegrated into your duties on April 13, 2003 as a public 
prosecutor within the Croix-des-Bouquets First Instance Court by the 
Minister of Justice, Calixte Delatour (who was accused in the *La 
Scierie* massacre). How did it come about that the Minister Henri Marge 
Dorleans demoted you to become the Saint Marc Assistant Public 
Prosecutor? Does a reintegration into the judicial system mean an 
official has been washed of a stain? It seems, Mr. Pierre, that in your 
declaration, you have already forgotten the "good old days" of the 
so-called "three musketeers" of the Port-au-Prince jurisdiction; a well 
known lawyer, a judge dismissed on an account of corruption, and an 
Assistant Public Prosecutor silenced in the countryside. According to 
many reports, the "musketeers" were responsible for the scandalous 
release of drug traffickers and other dangerous professional criminals 
in exchange for large sums of money.

 

You act as if you were defending "*/society's/" *position in the case of 
/Amanus Mayette/, by demanding the punishment of the authors, co-authors 
and accomplices of the *La Scierie *case in conformation with the law. 
Yet on the day of the hearing, you yourself brought the "*/decision/*" 
to the Minister of Justice to release /Mayette/ by means of /Habeus 
Corpus/. To this effect, you have proven yourself to be more diligent 
than the lawyers of the accused. In addition, to justify your release 
order, your requisition demanded the correction of "omissions and 
errors" that were committed in the treatment of the *La Scierie* 
massacre case, which is pending in the appeals court - this is 
irrefutable proof that in today's society, the sheep are being watched 
by the wolves.

 

Regarding RNDDH's position on the *La Scierie* case, which you deemed 
worthy of critique, we did not wish to be controversial with any state 
authority; however, RNDDH believes that the Haitian people have a right 
to the truth on what actually happened in *La Scierie,* and that the 
victims of the massacre merit justice and reparations.

 

Along with the state officials and other government actors who met for 
the Conference of the Americas in the "Déclaration de Nuevo León," RNDDH 
agrees that: "*/Corruption and impunity weakens public and private 
institutions; diminishes social values; brings conflict to the state of 
law; and introduces distortions in the economic resources and 
repartitions destined for development/*".

 

RNDDH hopes that you will receive its most patriotic greetings.

Pierre Espérance               

Executive Director              

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