Guy Malary (10 June 1943 – 14 October 1993) was a

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, appointed by

Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in ...

in 1991 and continuing in office under the post-

1991 Haitian coup d'état The 1991 Haitian coup d'état took place on 29 September 1991, when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, elected eight months earlier in the 1990–91 Haitian general election, was deposed by the Armed Forces of Haiti. Haitian military officers, p ...

regime. IACHR
REPORT Nº 78/02 / MERITS CASE 11.335 GUY MALARY HAITI, December 27, 2002
/ref> He was killed in an

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along with his bodyguards. "According to the petitioners o_the_Inter-American_Court_of_Human_Rights.html" ;"title="Inter-American_Court_of_Human_Rights.html" ;"title="o the Inter-American Court of Human Rights">o the Inter-American Court of Human Rights">Inter-American_Court_of_Human_Rights.html" ;"title="o the Inter-American Court of Human Rights">o the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the course of carrying out his duties, Mr. Malary worked for the implementation of the Governor's Island Accord, advocating the creation of an independent police force and carrying out a comprehensive review of the judicial system of Haiti, which brought him into direct conflict with the authorities in the country at the time." According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a Central Intelligence Agency, CIA memo dated October 28, 1993 implicated Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti, FRAPH members Louis-Jodel Chamblain, Emmanuel Constant, and Gabriel Douzable. The memo claimed they met with an unidentified member of the Haitian military to plan the assassination of Malary. The domestic building at

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was named after him.

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