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Topic: Haiti Aftermath
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thebabblerformerlyknownas'larry'
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posted 17 March 2004 01:15 AM
Haiti's Murderous Army Reborn (from March 14)] Here's an account by the mayor of Milo: quote: 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?
From: Kitchener, Ontario | Registered: Feb 2004
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