TITLE: Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death
AUTHOR: Patrick Lemoine
SUBJECT: Self Biography

Fordi9 is intended to introduce "Fort-Dimanche" the most infamous political prison in Haiti during the Duvalier's era (1957-1986). Fordi9 claims to immortalize in its chronicle the thousands who suffered or perished in this inferno, along with those victimized by these represives governments. Published originally in 1997, Fort Dimanche, Dungeon of Death has been reissued by the the author with the original translation from French by Frantz Haspil. The revised edition has been ably edited by Maryse Prézeau. In this time of terrorism in the United States, the work resonated not only among the Haitian people but among freedom loving people everywhere.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR::

Patrick Lemoine was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 19, 1945. Arrested in 1971, he spent nearly six years as a political prisonner in Baby Doc Duvalier's dungeons. Exiled in 1977, he now resides in New York. Patrick Lemoine's crime, according to his accusers, is that he is plotting with his best friend, Addy Seraphin, to overthrow the government and he has conspired to commit murder. Subject to all sorts of degradation, insults, torture, unthinkable pain and interrogation, Lemoine is cloistered in the squalid confines of Casernes Dessalines and subject to solitary confinement. Under these conditions, Lemoine retreats to his inner self and finds a reserve of discipline of mind and body that prepares him for survival.

He strategizes as to how he will get information of the outside world and prepares himself for the experience which awaits him in the Dungeon of Death at Fort- Dimanche.

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