The Haiti police force are killing unarmed civilians, cutting womens heads off and leaving body parts in the streets for dogs to eat. The ruling elite are slaughtering the poor. Shit is a real nightmare...
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By Peter Garden
Republished from Canada Activist Mailing List
New police massacre of the poor in Solino quarter of Haitian capital
August 10, 2005—By now many of you have undoubtedly heard reports of on-going killings and massacres in poor neighhborhoods of Port-au-Prince, the latest one apparently conducted by the Haitian police last weekend through Monday August 8 in the community of Solino. According to Haitian media outlets, quoting Solino residents, many people were killed in a brutal invasion of a poor community reminiscent of the assault by UN troops on Cite Soleil on July 6th. The source said that so-called “attaches” or paramilitary death-squad elements participated with the police in the assault, which targeted supporters of the majority Lavalas political movement.
Haitian media organizations, quoting Solino residents, reported that machetes were being distributed out of a National Police car to individuals attached to the national police. Solino residents described in horrific detail the dismembered bodies of a number of people, particularly young women, with body parts being placed in black plastic bags, and that this morning in a ditch in Solino, dogs had broken into some of the bags to eat the body parts. Women are being targeted by police and the “attaches” because so many strong Lavalas community leaders are women, and because women are playing a leading role in the pro-democracy movement.
Now there are reports from Port-au-Prince that yet another assault on Cite Soleil is being planned, either by UN troops or by the police or both. Bear in mind that by recent decree of the UN Security Council, MINUSTAH (the UN Mission in Haiti) is now officially in charge of the Haitian National Police, and therefore bears responsibility for the indiscriminate killings by the police in Solino this past weekend.
According to a community leader, “They are trying to dismantle the grassroots leadership of Lavalas by killing them—in one neighborhood after another. This is all in preparation for the sham elections they have cooked up for this fall to try and legitimize the February 29, 2004 coup d’etat and the coup regime. By ‘they’ I mean the death-squad government and their US, UN, French and Canadian backers.”
Many believe these invasions by heavily armed troops and mass killings in the poor districts are aimed at preventing mass demonstrations by the poor majority calling for the return of their democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, such as have occurred with regularity since the 2004 coup.
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By Peter Garden
Republished from Canada Activist Mailing List
New police massacre of the poor in Solino quarter of Haitian capital
August 10, 2005—By now many of you have undoubtedly heard reports of on-going killings and massacres in poor neighhborhoods of Port-au-Prince, the latest one apparently conducted by the Haitian police last weekend through Monday August 8 in the community of Solino. According to Haitian media outlets, quoting Solino residents, many people were killed in a brutal invasion of a poor community reminiscent of the assault by UN troops on Cite Soleil on July 6th. The source said that so-called “attaches” or paramilitary death-squad elements participated with the police in the assault, which targeted supporters of the majority Lavalas political movement.
Haitian media organizations, quoting Solino residents, reported that machetes were being distributed out of a National Police car to individuals attached to the national police. Solino residents described in horrific detail the dismembered bodies of a number of people, particularly young women, with body parts being placed in black plastic bags, and that this morning in a ditch in Solino, dogs had broken into some of the bags to eat the body parts. Women are being targeted by police and the “attaches” because so many strong Lavalas community leaders are women, and because women are playing a leading role in the pro-democracy movement.
Now there are reports from Port-au-Prince that yet another assault on Cite Soleil is being planned, either by UN troops or by the police or both. Bear in mind that by recent decree of the UN Security Council, MINUSTAH (the UN Mission in Haiti) is now officially in charge of the Haitian National Police, and therefore bears responsibility for the indiscriminate killings by the police in Solino this past weekend.
According to a community leader, “They are trying to dismantle the grassroots leadership of Lavalas by killing them—in one neighborhood after another. This is all in preparation for the sham elections they have cooked up for this fall to try and legitimize the February 29, 2004 coup d’etat and the coup regime. By ‘they’ I mean the death-squad government and their US, UN, French and Canadian backers.”
Many believe these invasions by heavily armed troops and mass killings in the poor districts are aimed at preventing mass demonstrations by the poor majority calling for the return of their democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, such as have occurred with regularity since the 2004 coup.
