Haiti probes killing of human rights activist

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Feb 13, 2014): Haiti announced on Wednesday a probe into the killing of a prominent human rights activist and his wife in broad daylight.
Daniel Dorsinvil and his wife Girly Lareche were killed by gunmen on Saturday as they returned home from a trip to a bank.
Dorsinvil was the coordinator of an organisation called the Haitian Human Rights Platform.
"No arrests have been made so far but we are going to find the people who carried out this double crime," said Gary Desrosiers, a spokesman for the national police.
Rights groups have complained that a government official, the secretary of state for public security, had initially described the attack as just a robbery gone awry.
They insist it was an attack against the Haitian human rights movement.
"We condemn any attempt to downplay the investigation," said Antonal Mortime, another senior official at the organisation where Dorsinvil worked.
Haitian President Michel Martelly's office issued a statement denouncing "death squads that continue to destroy Haitian families."
"This odious crime against a human rights activist and his wife will not, under any circumstance, be tolerated," said Haiti's Human Rights Minister Rose-Anne Auguste. – AFP