On April 3, 1986, more than 30,000 women took to the streets of Port-au-Prince in a peaceful protest organized by over 15 different groups. “It was a revolt against exclusion. The country was being remade and we didn’t want it to be remade without us”. (conversation with Myriam Merlet, Enfofanm, March 17, 1999). The April 3 anniversary is recalled each year and has been proposed as a national women’s day since 1996.
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Le 3 avril 1986, plus de 30 000 femmes sont descendues dans les rues de Port-au-Prince lors d’une manifestation pacifique organisée par plus d’une quinzaine de groupes différents. «C’était une révolte contre l’exclusion. Le pays était en train d’être refait et nous ne voulions pas le faire sans nous ». (conversation avec Myriam Merlet, Enfofanm, 17 mars 1999). L’anniversaire du 3 avril est rappelé chaque année et est proposé comme journée nationale de la femme depuis 1996.
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3 avril 1986, plis pase 30,000 fanm te pran lari nan Pòtoprens nan yon pwotestasyon pasifik òganize pa plis pase 15 gwoup diferan. “Se te yon revòlt kont eksklizyon. Peyi a te refè, faim yo pa t ‘vle li te refè san yo ”. (konvèsasyon avèk Myriam Merlet, Enfofanm, 17 Mas 1999). Anivèsè 3 avril la raple chak ane e li te pwopoze kòm yon jou nasyonal pou fanm ayisyèn depi 1996.
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She was known as Marie-Jeanne and served in the Haitian army in the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot during the Haitian Revolution. The wife of a young mulatto soldier, Louis Daure Lamartinière, she fought in male uniform. Thomas Madiou said: “she was known to fight like a brown Jeanne d’Arc”.
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Li te rele Marie-Jeanne epi li te sèvi nan lame ayisyen nan batay nan Crete-à-Pierrot pandan Revolisyon ayisyen an. Li te madanm yon jèn sòlda milat, yo te rele Louis Daure Lamartinière, li goumen nan inifòm gason. Thomas Madiou te di: “li te konnen pou l goumen tankou yon Jeanne d’Arc nwa.”
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Source/Sous:Wikipedia,Thomas Madiou
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Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile (fl. 1806), aka Défilée and Défilée-La-Folle, is a figure of the Haitian Revolution. She is remembered for retrieving and burying the mutilated body of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines after his assassination at Pont Larnage (now Pont Rouge) north of Port-au-Prince. –
Dédée Bazile was born near Cap-Français to enslaved parents and made a living serving as a sutler to the army of Dessalines. There are varying accounts of her madness but according to legend, Dédée Bazile either developed mental illness after she was raped by her master at age 18, or after some of her family members were killed in the defeat of Dessalines’s army by General Donatien Rochambeau.
On October 17, 1806, Emperor Dessalines was ambushed by his former comrades Alexandre Pétion, Jean-Pierre Boyer, André Rigaud, and Bruno Blanchet. He was fatally shot north of Port-au-Prince. His body was then brought into the city where it was stoned and mutilated by the crowds. Dédée Bazile, a fanatic admirer of Dessalines, gathered his remains in a sack and transported them to the Cimetière Intérieur to bury them.
Dédée Bazile died around 1816 and was buried in Port-au-Prince, but her grave has been lost. She was survived by her several children including her son Colonel Condol Bazile, officer of the constabulary under the Haitian president Faustin Soulouque. She is considered one of the four symbolic heroines of the independence of Haiti, alongside Sanité Bélair, Catherine Flon, and Cécile Fatiman
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Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was the first female to be President of Haiti. She held office for 11 months, from March 13th 1990 and to February 7th 1991.
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As a university student, she wanted to pursue a career in science but pursued it in law and politics, then became the country’s first woman lawyer. She was a judge in many federal courts from 1975 to 1988 before she finally became the first woman justice in the Supreme Court of Haiti. –
Mrs. Pascal-Trouillot became a lower-court judge in 1980 during the Duvalier dictatorship. While serving as Chief Justice she became the country’s provisional president on March 13, 1990, and was made responsible to organize a general election. It was to her credit that she could bring about violence-free elections which brought Jean Bertrand Aristide to the post of president with a 67% win.
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Wikipedia,Haitiobserver
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