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The
sole firsthand account
published on the Duvaliers’ political prisoners,
has already found a place among the notable memoirs
since it was first published in French in 1996 as Fort-Dimanche,
Fort-la-Mort.
The
outcry of a rare survivor among countless victims claimed
by the Haitian regime of the Duvaliers, this testimonial
spans over the author's nearly six years of detention
in Casernes Dessalines
and Fort-Dimanche,
two military barracks trans formed by the Duvaliers
- father and son - into political prisons.
Patrick
Lemoine’s memoirs capture
the triumph of life over death; the power of the human
spirit to foster determination,
strength, and hope in the absence
of justice or a judicial system; and the resolve to
emerge from death even when death is the sole meaning
given to life.
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| About
the book... |
Le
Nouvelliste, PAP,
Haiti - Jean
Desquiron
"This book is an implacable referendum against
dictator ship. Its sole ideology is to proclaim freedom
of though and expression. This book must be read by
anyone who wants to know, especial ly by the young who
should know, because it is difficult for them to imagine
the unthinkable".
Haiti-Observateur,
New York, USA
"Written in a soft literary style, yet concise,
detailed and captiva ting […], this book remains
the most acerbic discourse on the vicious cruelty of
a political mass mired in cynicism".
Jonathan
Demme, Filmaker
and Producer, USA
"Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death is a vivid memory
of the most horrendous kind of mental and physical cruelties
that we can inflict on our fellow man. Patrick
Lemoine's harrowing tale about his years of imprisonment
in one of the worst dungeons in the world will stand
as a constant reminder that our basic freedoms, when
taken for granted, can be trampled by the very ones
elected or selected among us to be sentinels of society".
Yves-Robert
Dougé, M.D.,
Pour Haiti, Paris, France
It is a disturbing testimonial on the physical and moral
degrada tion of human beings orchestrated by the militia
of a totalitarian regime. Patrick
Lemoine’s surgical surgical descrip tion of
a long descent into Duvalier’s dungeons leaves
us com pletely numb. Other books have been written on
the subject, but none offers such a detailed account
of this historically useful legacy.
Elsie
Ethéart, Haiti en Marche, Miami,
USA
It is necessary to read this book in its entirety, even
when you are tempted to hide it, to bury it, as if it
would prevent forever such horrible acts from occurring
again… |
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| Book
Info |
ISBN:
0-9575895-0-9 Copyrights 1997 • Patrick
Lemoine
All Rights Reserved including the right of reproduction
in whole or in part in any form • Published
by Fordi9
P.O. Box 671 • Uniondale, NY,11553
Printed in the USA • First Printing 12/1999 |
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