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thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'
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posted 17 March 2004 01:15 AM      Profile for thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Haiti's Murderous Army Reborn
(from March 14)]
Here's an account by the mayor of Milo:

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late February my district came under attack by anti-Aristide forces and I fled for my life. From where I am now -- hiding in the woods -- I see the old Haitian army is back.

Those they don't kill, they lock up in containers, because they burned down the jails. The kind of containers you put on ships.

The situation is different here from what I hear about in Port-au-Prince, where you have the multinational force of American, Canadian, Chilean soldiers. In Cap Haitian you have the former Haitian military. There are no police any more, so they are the ones who are law. They come into your home. They take you, they beat you up, they kill you. They burn down homes. They do anything they want, because they are the only law in town.
The journalists are in Port-au-Prince, but here in the north no one is reporting what's going on, that the former Haitian military is killing people. They are killing about 50 people a day in Cap Haitian It's happening not just in the northern department but also in the central plateau, in the Artibone region.
Can you imagine that on Monday at 2 p.m. the former military declared a curfew that would start at 4 p.m.? The peasants, many of them are poor and do not have a radio, so how could they hear of this curfew? So what happened at 4 p.m.? The former military took to the streets and anyone they saw on the streets they shot. This is the kind of stuff that is going on. Can you imagine this?



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thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'
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posted 17 March 2004 01:24 AM      Profile for thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Haiti police round up Aristide associates:
While Charles and other police officials insisted the arrests were not politically motivated, all six new detainees being held on Sunday at the station in the upscale Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville were from Lavalas.
They included Jacques Anthony Nazaire, in charge of Aristide's car pool, Rospide Petion, an Aristide supporter known as "12" accused of attacking opposition radio stations, and Harold Severe, a former deputy mayor of Port-au-Prince.
All had been charged with associating with criminal groups.
...
Charles acknowledged his police force would not immediately go after convicted human rights abusers and mass killers who fought with the armed rebels that helped send Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected leader, into exile.


here

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Lard Tunderin' Jeezus
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posted 17 March 2004 09:37 AM      Profile for Lard Tunderin' Jeezus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This situation sickens me more than Iraq did, because here we are complicit. Canada, more than any country in the west, knew the situation in Haiti, and was obligated to protect the Haitian people from this.

From the same article:
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Enraged at the loss of the only Haitian leader they say has ever cared about them, slum-dwellers have clashed with U.S. Marines. The Marines have killed six people since arriving.
No doubt whose interests the marines are serving.

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The Oatmeal Savage
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posted 20 March 2004 11:12 PM      Profile for The Oatmeal Savage   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Has anyone called Sweden yet?
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thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'
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posted 06 May 2004 10:52 PM      Profile for thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Here is an extensive (and depressing) compilation of information on the human rights abuses after the coup
It cites alot of mainstream as well as alt. press.

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posted 07 May 2004 12:26 AM      Profile for Marc     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry' --- your handle takes up half of the page!
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