Mario Joseph, a prominent Haitian human rights lawyer, has died in a car accident at the age of 62. Joseph was an attorney at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and represented many political prisoners and other victims of human rights abuses. He led the prosecution in the trial of the 1994 Raboteau massacre, which saw military and paramilitary forces attack and kill at least two dozen people who’d taken part in demonstrations supporting Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been overthrown in a coup three years earlier.

Democracy Now! traveled to Haiti in 2010 following the devastating earthquake, where we spoke with Mario Joseph.

Mario Joseph: “The way the earthquake hit, it didn’t discriminate. That’s a good example for us to look at in Haiti and stop with this exclusionary system. It’s true a lot of poor people were touched by this, but even people with big houses or small houses, everybody is living in the street now. This is why we have to begin to end the system of exclusion, for everybody to participate in the country’s life.”

Click here to see our interviews with Mario Joseph, as well as our coverage of Haiti over the years.