Former President Michel Martelly, paid a moving tribute to President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in his residence on July 7 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34283-haiti-flash-follow-up-of-investigations-into-the-assassination-of-president-moise-video.html . A video that we invite you to watch and share.

"President since I heard the news I am at the owest, broken, hurt, indignanted. I ask myself questions, all kinds of questions

Today I feel that I need to speak with you President, I need to speak with you President, to say thank you President, thank you for the dreams you had for Haiti, for your courage as well. Thank you for the fine example you have set for an entire generation. You showed a lot of young women and young boys a way to stand up, you gave the strength, Haiti needed that. Unfortunately, it was in your death that more people were able to see clearly, those who were telling nonsense got scared, those who were not interested sat down to listen.

The shocked world, the prostrate Nation...

The sacrifices you have made, the life you have given yourself for your belief in a better Haiti, is priceless. President, you can believe me, Haiti is awake, President we are going to be good, today the Haitian is awake. President we have not lost the battle.

My dear President, you have understood Haiti, you have understood it with all its contradictions that it involves. You weren't afraid to denounce what we were all saying quietly. You were not afraid to face what has destroyed us since Independence, you have arrived at the heart of the problem. The men reacted, they shot you dead [...] the people are angry the people are upset, but the people understand [...] the people are going to put them all on the sidelines.

Hope must flourish, we all have to plan to reorganize ourselves and then move forward together, hand in hand and all together, this is where you were going and we will not go back.

President thank you, you put us on the road, President pardon, we seek you, we have led you in this situation, we supported you, we voted for you, we put you there. But not for that, we didn't want your wife to lose you, we didn't want your children to lose you. We didn't want to lose you. We didn't want you to lose your life. Excellency, pardon, pardon on behalf of those who made scandals every day, without they understanding that their behavior encouraged the wicked to take this path. They didn't understand.

Pardon. Pardon on behalf of the people who committed these wicked acts, they didn't understand what they were doing, but they can't turn off the sun, they can't stop the water from flowing, they can't kill everyone.

The dream will continue to gain ground, the battle will not end.

We native Haitians, native children, we say pardon because we understand that Haiti has lost a son, one too many, a genius, but a lion never dies, he sleeps"

HL/ HaitiLibre