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thwap
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posted 15 December 2004 07:35 AM

After financing a rebellion to overthrow elected President Aristide, Canada, the US, and France, are now pressing the people of Haiti to embrace peace and help the government of their recently installed puppet.

Since Aristide's supporters (a strong majority of Haiti's electorate) have been, and will be abused by this illegitimate government, and since they recognize the obvious hypocrisy of Martin, et.al.'s calls for reconciliation, they have not been quiet.

The UN "peace-keeping" force has therefore moved into their neighbourhood stronghold in Haiti's capital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4096841.stm

quote:
UN peacekeepers storm Haiti slum

Peacekeepers have been criticised for failing to halt the anarchy
United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti have launched an operation to take control of one of the most violent slums in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Hundreds of troops moved into the Cite Soleil district by land, sea and air.
The UN says they will stay for at least two months before handing control to local police.
Cite Soleil is a stronghold of the former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's supporters, and often witnesses factional violence.
Dozens of people are said to have been killed since fighting increased in early September in the area, home to 500,000 people.

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Rufus Polson
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posted 15 December 2004 03:20 PM

It absolutely disgusts me that Canada is directly involved in this amazingly clearcut overthrow of a democratically elected government by vicious thugs, and there's *nothing* in the news--most people in Canada probably have no idea we're even there, much less what happened. This is one of the clearest cut cases of Canadian media censorship I've ever seen. It's horrible and repugnant--if people knew the facts there's no way the citizens of Canada would stand for this outrage. People can excuse a certain amount of crap due to semiconscious racism about third world countries and their inhabitants, but this is too blatant; nobody except the most dyed-in-the-wool militaristic bigots, who might say "My Conservative Party right or wrong", could possibly support this.
But the media don't, apparently, want the boat to be rocked and so it gets swept under the rug. It makes me sick. All those executives are complicit in mass murder. So is Paul Martin.

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Sharon
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posted 15 December 2004 09:36 PM

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Massive numbers of Canadians are willing to march in the streets to criticize the U.S. over Iraq but seem unwilling to denounce our own government's substantial role in deposing the elected president of Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country.

in rabble.ca this morning

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Fidel
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posted 15 December 2004 11:35 PM

What Latin American country hasn't the CIA opened their dirty bag of tricks to ?. The people strive to be free of old world colonialism kept alive by the rich gringos who fund the killing throughout Latin America. Curse the CIA and their bogeymen in Haiti. May their right rightist souls be buried alive in hell for ever and ever.

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