Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death

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Fort Dimanche

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Haiti articles missing geocoordinate data All articles needing coordinates. Views Read Edit View history. This page was last edited on 21 January , at This, coming just a few days before the fiftieth anniversary of April 26, , seems to not only be an attempt at whitewashing the past, but at launching an offensive against those who, on this day, will pause to remember. The few -- like Montas, who was arrested on Jean Claude Duvalier's orders, on November 28, -- who have been able to file complaints or testify, represent a small percentage of those who were arrested, jailed, tortured, or killed under the younger's Duvalier regime.

Montas joins an even shorter list of high profile victims, whom Baby Doc is able to identify by name. Rural people were crushed.

She recalls the particular case of one of her fellow plaintiffs who was forced to travel from northern Haiti with her husband's severed head in a bucket during the father's reign and was only released from Fort Dimanche during the son's reign, as part of a prisoner exchange with the United States. There should be no statute of limitations for judgment on that.

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There should be no statute of limitations on the disappeared. There should also be no statute of limitations on memory, whose precarious preservation can sometimes become a hazardous task.

On April 26, , a group of the dictatorship's survivors and their family members and supporters marched to the ruins of Fort Dimanche to remember the dead. Fifteen of them, including some journalists covering the event, were mowed down in hail of bullets by Duvalier loyalists.

Fort-Dimanche : dungeon of death

Those dead, too, will be remembered on this now-layered anniversary. I solemnly vowed to keep alive the memory of my departed cellmates.

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While the young have never been told, while so many older Haitians have chosen to forget, while some politicians are now attempting to rewrite history, and while the charges against Jean Claude Duvalier are still pending, I hope that the voices of those saying 'never again' will this time be heard. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and currently lives in Miami.

Herman published a book The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism in which they report having been told that the prison was going to be renovated and modernized, but that was not to be.

People continued to be thrown in there without a trial. An individual would be arrested, and no accounts would be given for the reason for their arrest. Families were not able to see their incarcerated loved one.

In the late s and early s, there were some reports including one by the journalist Richard R. Hofstetter and a article in Newsweek magazine that Haitians who had tried to flee Haiti by boat, and were deported, were thrown inside the prison upon arrival in Haiti. Several deportees and immigrants interviewed for the book The Tarnished door: Thousands were held prisoner at Fort Dimanche, some whose names are known, others whose first name had survived. Two months after the February departure of Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier, protestors held a march in front of the prison to commemorate the death of the thousands who had died in Fort Dimanche.

The video above is part of a news report about the ruins of Fort Dimache.

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