sentences:  He was taken to the town's main square where he was tortured and then put on a boat to Port-au-Prince; he was never seen again.Later his death in confinement was confirmed by an obscure notice in the government newspaper buried on page 14.He is survived by his wife Andree Roumer, niece of eminent Haitian poet Émile Roumer, his daughter Florence and his son, modern Afro-Caribbean artist Jean-Jacques Stephen Alexis (AKA