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Victims of accused Haitian torturer in court
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@MiamiHerald.com
Lexiuste Cajuste, once a top labor organizer in Haiti, is in a federal courtroom in Miami today in a case involving a former Haitian Army colonel accused of human rights abuses who a decade ago won the Florida Lotto.
Cajuste is expected to testify about how Haitian policemen tortured him after soldiers overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. The testimony is at the heart of a civil trial before U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King.
Cajuste and another Haitian accuse former Haitian Army Col. Carl Dorelien of human rights abuses and doing nothing to punish those responsible for torture and massacres.
Dorelien was among high-ranking military officers who overthrew Aristide in 1991 and then served as an army colonel in the central command until U.S. troops landed in 1994 to restore Aristide to office.
Dorelien then fled to the United States and settled in Florida, where he bought a Lotto ticket in 1997 and won $3.2 million. Accused of human rights violations back home, Dorelien was deported in 2003 -- and then lost control of his jackpot.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against Dorelien in connection with the alleged torture of Cajuste in Port-au-Prince in 1993 and the killing of Michel Pierre in the infamous 1994 massacre in Raboteau.
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