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John Donnelly, Boston Globe June 11, 2000 JUSTICE DELAYED: SHOWDOWN LOOMS IN HAITI FORMER BOSTON LAWYER TO TRY EX-OFFICIALS IN 1994 MASSACRE Edition: THIRD Section: National/Foreign Page: A1 GONAIVES , Haiti – It was just another slaughter in Haiti. Soldiers and police beat people in their homes here before dawn on April 22, 1994. They shot them fleeing into the sea. It became a massacre of floating corpses. And that normally would have been the end of the story, for Haiti’s history is full of bloody tales of the military acting as it pleased, crushing any who resisted. This time was different. Months later, a US invasion force of 20,000 troops ushered out the country’s military leaders, and the victims in the Raboteau neighborhood of Gonaives grew more determined not to allow what had happened that morning slip away forgotten. […]

From the United Nations Economic and Social Council: Commission on Human Rights Integration of the Human Rights of Women and Gender Perspective: Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/44 Violence Against Women: Addendum to the Report on the Mission to Haiti Violence Against Women

From the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1995 IACHR Report Haiti http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/EnHa95/EngHaiti.htm

From the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1994-IACHR-Report-Haiti http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/EnHa94/EngHaiti.htm

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From the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1990-IACHR-Report-Haiti http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Haiti90eng/TOC.htm