Seventy-nine years after he was executed by the Nazis, Wilhelmus Cornelis Meere was finally honoured Thursday for his leadership in the Dutch Resistance.
Seventy-nine years after he was executed by the Nazis, Wilhelmus Cornelis Meere was finally honoured Thursday for his leadership in the Dutch Resistance.
Attorneys painted widely different pictures of the former mayor of a Haitian town who is on trial in the U.S., accused of terrorizing his political opponents. The suit against Jean Morose Viliena began Monday in a federal court in Boston. The case highlights the violence and lack of accountability in Haiti’s politics. In openings, the defense said that Viliena was a successful mayor who improved the town. But an attorney for the three plaintiffs who say they or their relatives were violently persecuted by Viliena said he violently suppressed and intimidated his political foes. Viliena now lives in Malden.
BOSTON (AP) Accusations of political violence and terror have followed a former Haitian mayor all the way to a Boston courtroom, where a civil trial began Monday that shines a light on the wider issue of bloodshed and unaccountability in the Caribbean nation's politics.
Jean Morose Viliena, now a Massachusetts resident, was sued in 2017 by three Haitian citizens who say they or their relatives were persecuted by him and his political allies.