1917. Attack on the house of the American chief of the Hinche gendarmerie:
Condé, the traitor, and Hanneken
The American authorities used this attack as a pretext to stop
Charlemagne Péralte and his half-brother, General Saül Péralte. Before driving to
pied, the Péralte brothers in Ouanaminthe where they were to be tried by the Court
Prévôtale, the Americans set fire to the house of Charlemagne and looted that one
de Saûl." (Dupuy, Charles. "Who killed Charlemagne Péralte" Haiti-Observateur. 4-
August 11, 1999, pp. 5.) Saul was sentenced to capital punishment and Charlemange to
forced labor. The latter, escaped a year later, organized the resistance. He was betrayed
by one of his sergeants, Jean-Baptiste Conzé, and murdered on November 1, 1919
by Hermann Hanneken, an American soldier.
1994.- Resignation of Emile Jonassaint.
Provisional President of Haiti on May 11, 1994 and an ally of the military during the period
of the coup, Emile Jonassaint was the president of the Constituent Assembly of
1987, which produced the 1987 Constitution and a member of the Court of Cassation.
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See: Haitian notables: Emile Jonassain