Minister of Justice and Public Security Jean Joseph Exume of Haiti

over for him, he had to sign off again as a formality, i was told.

United States] were taking care of.

A former justice minister in the Aristide government, Exume is now the legal advisor for the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights.

Exume was once a supporter of Aristide but was fired from his position in the government.

Exume said yesterday in a telephone interview about Mr.

Haiti's Justice Minister Jean-Joseph Exume has lamented the deadly collapse last week of a school with scores of children inside, saying the building never should have held so many.

This building was not suitable for a school, Exume said during a visit to the scene of the tragedy.

Exume said the government was initiating an inquiry to determine who bears responsibility for the disaster, and suggested that criminal prosecution could follow.

Minister of Justice and Public Security Jean Joseph Exume said the case was still being investigated but the owner could face up to life in prison.

This building was not suitable for a school," Exume said during a visit to the scene.

According to the article, Justice Minister Jean-Joseph Exume said that he had been told that the United States paid Morissaints legal expenses, that it provided backup (in ways he declined to specify) to arrange the gunmans release, that after his release they gave him total protection (at one point bringing him, under guard, to a hotel) and that the United States also made arrangements to have leave the country.

While Exume has attempted to explain away the Morissaint debacle and the glacial advance of justice in occupied Haiti, various coup crime victims, who attended a meeting at the National Palace with President Aristide and Exume on Sept.