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About Joseph Roney
- Joseph Roney (born August 15, 1935, Port-au-Prince, d.
- January 7, 2013, Brussels) was a Haitian politician.
- Roney hailed from a peasant family.
- He studied at the Ecole normale supérieure of the State University of Haiti.In 1959 he took part in founding the Party of Popular Accord (PEP), a party in which he would serve as its general secretary.
- During the 1960s he was a leader of the National Union of Haitian Students (UNEH) and the Popular Youth League (LJP).
- Roney organized students strike to ensure the freedom of jailed UNEH chairman Bastien.
- Soon, Roney himself was jailed as well.
- On November 22, 1960 a national students strike was organized to demand that Roney (then the UNEH treasurer) and 19 other students be freed from jail.
- The strike movement was successful, and Roney resumed a leading role in the student movement after his release.In 1969 he became the general secretary of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH).
- He continued in this position until 1972.
- Soon after the foundation of the PUCH, Roney was arrested and jailed for seven years.
- He was released from jailed in 1977, and went into exile in Belgium.
- In Belgium, he became a member of the Workers Party of Belgium.
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