Yvon Neptune
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Yvon Neptune (born November 8, 1946) was the Prime Minister of Haiti from 2002 until 2004. He was appointed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and took office on March 15, 2002. On March 2, 2004, shortly after Aristide's resignation, a mob attempted to arrest Neptune on corruption charges, but it was not successful. A week later, US Marines guarding his residence killed two gunmen there. Neptune was replaced on March 12, 2004, by an unelected provisional government, led by Gérard Latortue, which had been appointed three days earlier. On March 27, 2004, the provisional government banned Neptune from leaving the country, along with 36 other senior officials of the Aristide administration, in order to more easily investigate corruption allegations. As of that date Neptune is in hiding, but he has released a statement calling the ban a "witch hunt."
On February 19, 2005, Neptune was taken into protective custody by United Nations peacekeeping forces and handed himself back (https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/haiti-news/2005-February/000224.html) to Haitian authorities after a Port-au-Prince penitentiary breakout.
On April 18, 2005, former Prime Minister Neptune began a hunger strike, refusing hospitalization and offers of medical attention abroad. On May 5 he was reported as being "near death".
See also: List of national leaders.
External links
- "Aristide's Ex-PM Refuses to Leave Haiti" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4977639,00.html), ARIANA CUBILLOS (Associated Press Writer), Guardian Unlimited, 2 May 2005
- Fmr. Haitian Prime Minister Beaten in Prison as Interim Gv't Prepares to Charge Him in Connection with Political Killings (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/25/1342232), Democracy Now (Radio), 25 April 2005
- Haiti's jailed former PM resumes hunger strike (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29187001.htm) Joseph Guyler Delva, Reuters AlertNet, 29 April 2005
- HAITI: Former PM on hunger strike (http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p13.htm), Alison Dellit, Green Left Weekly: Online Edition, 2 May 2005
- If Neptune is flown into exile, he wants the world to know, it was a kidnapping (https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/haiti-news/2005-May/000543.html) 1 May 2005de:Yvon Neptune