# Jean-Rabel massacre

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The '''Jean-Rabel massacre''' took place in [Haiti](/source/Haiti) on 23 July 1987, near the town of [Jean-Rabel](/source/Jean-Rabel).<ref name=MV>massviolence.org, [http://www.massviolence.org/Massacres-perpetrated-in-the-20th-Century-in-Haiti?artpage=4-6 Haiti: 1986-1991: Military Coups and post-Duvalier repression]</ref> At least 139 people were killed (one of the self-proclaimed assassins claimed 1042). It was carried out by "paramilitary groups led by [macoutes](/source/Tonton_Macoute) and acting upon the alleged orders from a local land oligarch, Rémy Lucas".<ref name=MV/> 

Several days earlier [Henri Namphy](/source/Henri_Namphy) had visited the area and "publicly supported the Lucas family and their rights to the land they claimed".<ref name=MV/> Many of the dead were members of the Tet Ansamn land reform group.<ref>''[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)'', 30 August 1988, [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/30/world/200-died-in-massacre-in-haiti.html 200 Died in Massacre in Haiti]</ref>

Arrest warrants were finally issued on 13 September 1995, and in January and February 1999, Rémy Lucas, Léonard Lucas and Jean-Michel Richardson were detained for a short period.<ref name=MV/> 

== See also ==
* [List of massacres in Haiti](/source/List_of_massacres_in_Haiti)

==References==
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==External links==
* "[http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/176.html Jean Rabel Massacre commemorated with outcry and excuses]", ''Haiti Progres'', "This Week in Haiti", Vol. 16, no. 19, 29 July - 4 August 1998

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Category:1987 in Haiti
Category:Massacres in 1987
Category:Massacres in Haiti
Category:Nord-Ouest (department)
Category:July 1987 in North America

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