As Haitians gear up to return to democratic rule, a group of Haitian citizens have filed a landmark petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States, the Dominican Republic and members of the installed government that replaced Aristide. Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, said: “The Petition documents the systematic attack on Haiti’s democracy by the three governments which included undermining the constitutional government through illegal embargoes on development assistance and police supplies, supporting both unarmed and armed groups in the overthrow of the government and kidnapping the democratically-elected President on February 29, 2004.”