Osner Fevry - Urgent Warning to the Diaspora

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Excerpts from my Interview with Dr. Osner Fevry, Esq on March 13, 2009

HAITI - Warning to the Diaspora -

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The World and Democracy
Time Warner Cable, MNN
Published: March 24, 2009

By Smith Georges
New York, USA

Excerpts from my Interview with Dr. Osner Fevry, Esq on March 13, 2009

Question:
Anyone can be kidnapped in Haiti regardless whether you're poor or rich. That situation didn't exist.

Is it safe right now for the Diaspora to return to Haiti - to come back to Haiti?

Osner Fevry:
If you (feel) you will not be safe - you are not safe.

Question:
But it's a fact - it's a fact. What we see over here - what we hear in the news, I mean the kidnapping and the ransom that you have to pay. I know folks in the Diaspora who have lost parents.

I have seen reports coming from Haiti.

It's not the Diaspora's fault.

They would love to go back there.

But they would want this guarantee that they will be safe. I want you to be sincere with an honest answer.

Osner Fevry:
Honestly, there are same problems inside our police because whenever there is a case of kidnapping, there are at least two people who are involved in this kidnapping.

So it will be a kind of pro bono advice to our=2 0listeners, to those who are interested, as Haitians, to come back to their country - by telling them that whenever there is a case of kidnapping, generally, there are two people they will discover in the team. One is a police man. The second one is someone very, very close to the family.

Generally the maid, the chauffeur, the watchman.

Those people are generally involved in the kidnapping.

So don't trust people.

Even if it's someone to whom to have sent money for past ten years, twenty years.

Don't go to Haiti with the Haitian traditional spirit of confidence that you must trust anybody you meet - no - There is a big change in term of social psychology in Haitians right now. The twenty-five years ago (Haitian) is not the Haitian in 2009. A lot of things, a lot of change have happened in term of mentality.

So people who are very close to you - those people you used to send money to - you used to call on the phone.

They are generally the ones waiting for you at the airport to get your address - to get you kidnapped and even killed.

When you buy a piece of property, and you leave someone to watch over this piece of property - you have a house in Haiti - say cousin, your nephew, your brother and member of the family can stay in the house.

He, sometimes, makes you vulnerable because he would not like you to come back at all.
When you choose to come in Haiti generally, it is among your own people, who are trying to invent problems to make yo u fear to leave the country immediately so they can get this house, this property.

So - that- my first recommendation, my first advice to you wherever you go to Haiti, it's better to trust strangers, people who are not part of your family network than to trust people, old people you used to live with in Haiti.

The statistics of police give us a report that all kidnapping generally happen with those key figures: A police and someone close to the family.

Generally, it was a type - where people who used to get benefits interest from the community of the Diaspora.

Something else, we must probably pray - not probably - we must pray that, in Haiti, we'll have in the future a kind of new government body that will be what we call the vis-à-vis of Barack Obama.

Question:
Are you currently representing the Lavalas party?

Osner Fevry:
No, I was not Lavalas.

I am not Lavalas, and I will never be Lavalas.

Smith Georges, March 25 2009, 8:16 PM

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