Haitian thug faces lawsuit.New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of For years, New Yorkers have protested against Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, the leader of a Haitian paramilitary death squad known as FRAPH FRAPH Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti . Constant was served with a lawsuit on January 14. Brought by three women who were savagely assaulted by members of FRAPH, the lawsuit alleges that Constant was responsible for torture, rape, and crimes against humanity. Constant was convicted in November 2000 in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused in Haiti for his role in a 1994 massacre and sentenced in life in prison. For the past ten years, Constant has been living in Queens, " despite occasional protests outside his home At one such protest in 1997, pictured here, Ron Daniels of the Center for Constitutional Rights denounced Constant. The group is acting as local counsel in the case, which the Center for Justice and Accountability; based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , has filed. |
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