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Haitian President Calls for Calm, Asks Justice Department, Police to Shed
Light on Student's Killing

Sandra Lemaire

   WASHINGTON / PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haitian President Jovenel Moise is
   calling on the country's justice and police departments to bring to
   light the circumstances surrounding the death earlier this month of a
   university student, allegedly at the hands of police.

   Moise also appealed to student protesters to remain calm as the nation
   awaits the findings of investigators in the case of 29-year-old Gregory
   Saint-Hilaire.

   "All those involved must do their jobs --which means the justice
   department, including the police, DCPG (the director general of the
   national police force) --everyone in general. We must find the truth
   surrounding the death of the student," Moise said in a video posted on
   his official Facebook page.

   University students in the capital, Port-au-Prince, organized five days
   of protests last week, at times becoming violent, to demand justice and
   revenge in the death of Saint-Hilaire.

   He was killed on university grounds while demanding the teaching job he
   was promised after graduating. The national ministry of education
   signed an agreement with the Ecole Normale Superieure (the state
   university Saint-Hilaire attended) offering internships and teaching
   jobs to graduates. That didn't happen, angering students, who accused
   officials of playing politics.

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