Word: dorsainvil
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...Dorsainvil eventually gained support from an unexpected source...
After reading accounts of the murder in New York newspapers, Roy Smith '80, a human rights lawyer and professor at the City University of New York, called Dorsainvil to offer his counsel...
Smith says he suggested that Dor- Dorsainvil attempt to generate publicity and contact Harvard faculty members familiar with the region as well as campus organizations such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Haitian Alliance and Fuerza Quisqueyana, the Dominican Students' Organization...
Smith says he traveled to Haiti and presented to the U.S. Deputy Ambassador and the Haitian Truth Commission several petitions which Dorsainvil had collected from fellow students in Adams House...
Smith says he now uses Dorsainvil's story as an example in a course that he teaches about human rights...