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It’s been more than a decade, but one woman can still hear the tiny voice that broke through the silence after she was brutally raped by paramilitary officers in Haiti. “Mom, did you die?” her young son asked her in the darkness. “Did you die?…”

One woman was gang-raped twice for being a pro-democracy leader, another was beaten for speaking out after her husband disappeared at the hands of Haiti’s oppressive military regime, and the third was raped by paramilitaries as a message to her activist husband…

A former paramilitary leader from Haiti has been sued by three women who allege they were gang-raped and beaten by members of his right-wing group. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, 48, was served with papers on Friday as he left an appointment with the Immigration and Naturalization Service [Immigration Services], said Moira Feeney, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability…

For several years in the early 1990s U.S. intelligence maintained close ties with a Haitian named Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a savage paramilitary group that has been held responsible for a prolonged wave of killings and other atrocities. Toto Constant today walks the streets of Queens, a free man. How did he come to find refuge in the United States? Who has been holding up his deportation?