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Front Line is deeply concerned regarding the disappearance of human rights defender Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine who has been missing sicne 12 August 2007. Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is the former coordinator of the 30 September Foundation, a human rights organisation dedicated to protecting the families of victims and reuniting survivors of the military government of 1991-1994, during which at least 5,000 people were killed.  

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that human rights defender Frantzo Joseph has been forced into hiding with his wife and young children, as a result of threats he received. Frantzo Joseph is the Coordinator of the Conseil Communautaire de Droits Humains de Grand Ravine - CCDH-GR (Grand Ravine Community Human Rights Council) and was appointed in 2007 to be the official representative of Grand Ravine to the National Commission on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (CNDDR). The CCDH-GR is a community group working in the Grand Ravine neighbourhood.