Suspect set for deportation to Haiti

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Posted on Fri, Dec. 17, 2004

A Haitian human-rights violator suspect faces deportation to Haiti, where he was convicted in the murder of a Jean Bertrand Aristide supporter.

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''There is not a system of equitable justice now operating in Haiti,'' Krieger said. ``This is evidenced by the trial and release of other human rights abusers including those connected with the Raboteau massacre, one of the worst atrocities in Haitian history.''
The Bush administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Kernizan's departure would take place under unusual circumstances.

Typically, he said, Haitian human rights suspects have been deported aboard U.S. government flights escorted by American officials.

The official said Kernizan would leave by commercial flight escorted by a Haitian government official.

Nina Pruneda, a spokeswoman in Miami for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, declined comment on when and how Kernizan would leave citing ``safety and security reasons.''

Kernizan fled Haiti in 1995 after he was ordered to testify about the murder of Antoine Izmery on Sept. 11, 1993. Kernizan was suspected of belonging to death squad that led Izmery to his death.
Izmery, a businessman and Lavalas supporter, was at a church Mass commemorating the anniversary of a 1988 massacre when a group of armed men escorted him from the church and shot him twice in the head.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/10435875.htm