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Massacre In Haiti

By Montag | Related entries in Foreign Policy, The World

UN forces carried out an operation in the Haitian slum Cite Soleil “…to wipe out violent gang activity.” Eyewitnesses — residents of the area and humanitarian workers — describe the operation as a massacre, perhaps aimed at “…supporters of the Lavalas Party and ousted Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide who was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup 18 months ago.”

Click below to see, hear or read the transcript of the Democracy now! report.
Eyewitnesses Describe Massacre by UN Troops in Haitian Slum

This happened around 3:00 a.m. on July 6. Heard about it? The silence is deafening.


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4 Responses to “Massacre In Haiti”

  1. Callimachus Says:
    July 12th, 2005 at 1:14 am

    Because they’re going to do such a great job in Iraq once we “do the right thing” and put the blue helmets in charge. Gods, is there any job they’ve taken on, bigger than a state fair swine judging contest, where they haven’t completely screwed the pooch?

  2. Montag Says:
    July 12th, 2005 at 6:27 am

    Was this truly a raid on “gang activity” in which they “completely screwed the pooch” by killing innocent people, and are now covering up? Or was this a “politically motivated” attack in which they were brutally successful?

  3. Callimachus Says:
    July 12th, 2005 at 3:33 pm

    Or was it a ruthlessly effective raid on “gang activity” that terminated the menace with extreme prejudice? Something so out of character with the U.N. that I never even considered it at first. Kofi Annan as the Eliot Ness of Turtle Bay?

  4. Donklephant » Blog Archive » More Killings in Haiti Says:
    August 25th, 2005 at 8:07 am

    [...] I have noted here before the unrest in Haiti. Saturday, there were more killings there, this time in the Port-au-Prince slum of Martissant. This time it was “hooded police and individuals with machetes” attacking “bandits” with machetes. “Everybody gathered to watch the [soccer] game, suddenly the police surrounded the area and ordered everyone to lie on the ground,” said Roland Roy, a community leader in Martissant. [...]

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