HAITIANS KILLED IN PRO-ARISTIDE DEMONSTRATION UNDER AMERICAN OCCUPATION
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From: Malaika Kambon
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Subject: [unioNews] HAITIANS KILLED IN PRO-ARISTIDE DEMONSTRATION UNDER AMERICANOCCUPATION
NEW AFRIKAN MILLENNIUM
12 MARCH 2004
"...house to house searches, doors being kicked in,
the commonness of death..." --GLJ
The instigators of the coup in Haiti would have the world believe
that they intend to disarm themselves & to 'search' for weapons
among the peoples of Haiti during this 'disarmament' process.
Hmmm...
The question of course, is whom will be searching & 'disarming' whom?
Dare it be suggested that neither Guy Phillipe, Jodel Chamblain, nor their
thugs; nor the u.s., European, Canadian thugs & their allied thugs are going
to give up their weapons?
And that this 'gun hunt' is really a continuation of the 'search & destroy,'
'regime change,' 'racial profiling,' COINTELPRO missions being carried
out against pro-ARISTIDE Haitians?
The masses of the people of Haiti are not being financed by the u.s. empire.
Thus, at this time, they neither have nor control any of the tremendous
amounts of heavy weaponry that exist on the island.
For what then is the occupying army truly searching? & what will it claim
to 'find?'
Will it claim that there are large caches of pistols, machetes, bricks & rocks
among the poor & starving?
Or will it just spirit away the poor & starving - labeled as terrorists - while
they continue in round two of Colin Powell engineered lies?
The u.s. military uses the term 'dry hole' for when it searches - but does not
find - weapons at 'suspected' weapons sites.
Iraq then, is one really big 'dry hole,' since no weapons of mass destruction
have been found at any of several 'suspected' weapons sites...
Iraqi revolutionaries liberate weapons.
Haitian revolutionaries liberate countries.
Both Haitian & Iraqi peoples & oppressed peoples of the world are fighting
a revolutionary war against vastly superior fire power.
We are neither shocked nor awed.
And we will win.
war without terms
m
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:57:37 -0500
From: "Pan-African News Wire" <[log in to unmask]>
TWO DEAD AT HAITI PROTEST AS WEAPONS HUNT STARTS
Fri Mar 12, 2004 01:07 AM ET
By Michael Christie and IBON VILLELABEITIA
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out in Port-
au-Prince on Thursday killing two people and injuring six
after police broke up a rowdy demonstration calling for the
return of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Discontent could be fueled next week when Aristide, who is in
exile in Africa, plans to travel to Haiti's Caribbean
neighbor Jamaica on a visit announced on Thursday by
Jamaica's prime minister.
Thursday's shooting erupted inside a slum when protesters
scattered, some smashing shop and car windows, after police
used tear gas to disperse several thousand Aristide loyalists
enraged at his departure.
Morgue workers at the city's General Hospital said two bullet-
riddled bodies were brought in after the unrest near the
National Palace, the latest volatility in the impoverished
Caribbean country. The workers said they had been killed by
police but this could not be independently confirmed.
Six people were treated in the emergency ward for bullet
wounds. Two of them, a middle-aged man cradling a shattered
arm, and a market woman hit twice in the upper torso, said
they had been shot by police.
Aristide fled on Feb. 29, driven out by a month-long armed
revolt and by U.S. pressure to quit. More than 200 people
have been killed in the violence.
He has alleged from exile in the Central African Republic
that the United States staged a coup and forced his
resignation. Washington denied those claims but Aristide's
charges have inflamed the passions of his supporters.
Aristide was expected to visit Jamaica, 115 miles west of
Haiti, early next week for a stay that could last up to 10
weeks, Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said.
A champion of the poor who became Haiti's first elected
leader in 1991 after helping to end the decades-long rule of
the Duvaliers, Aristide had faced growing accusations of
corruption and despotism since flawed elections in 2000.
Rebels who helped force Aristide out promised again on
Thursday to lay down their guns and U.S. Marines said a
pledge by Washington to get tough on arms had been put into
action.
'DRY HOLES OKAY'
Haitian police and U.S. and French troops from the 2,500-
strong multinational force searched a suspected weapons site
early on Thursday in a show of military strength.
"The end result was we found no weapons," said U.S.
commander, Marine Col. Mark Gurganus. "The bottom line is
there's going to be a lot of dry holes in these types of
operations but that's okay. The message out of this is that
we're looking and we're out to help reduce the number of
weapons on the street."
French gendarmes and legionnaires secured a defensive
perimeter around the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Haut-
Turtau, while Marines and police entered a house. A
helicopter hovered overhead and passersby were shooed away.
There was no shooting. Marines have killed four people since
Sunday as they faced escalating attacks and rooftop ambushes
by suspected pro-Aristide gunmen.
Later on Thursday, Chilean troops guarding the site of the
future force headquarters spotted a man 300 yards away taking
weapons from a car. As a result, two rifles and a pistol were
confiscated -- the first weapons seizure by the force.
In the protest, which began in the Belair slum, police used
warnings on megaphones then tear gas to break up the crowd.
People fled back toward Belair. Some broke windows and set
fire to tires and garbage, while militants brought out their
guns and fired at police.
The crowd emerged earlier from Belair singing and beating
drums, blowing horns and chanting, "We want Aristide back,"
and "No Aristide, no peace."
While they marched, interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue,
who flew into Haiti on Wednesday from Florida, was meeting at
the National Palace with President Boniface Alexandre to
begin work on drawing up a Cabinet.
Latortue arrived promising to unite Haiti's deeply divided 8
million people, attack insecurity, disarm the population and
create jobs in a country of chronic poverty.
Rebel chief Guy Philippe told Reuters he had told his
supporters to pursue peaceful methods to achieve their goals
of inclusion in a new government, and re-establishment of an
army, disbanded by Aristide a decade ago after it staged a
coup.
The rebels had already vowed to disarm after Aristide left.
Their revolt was launched on Feb. 5 in the northwestern city
of Gonaives and then rolled through the north after being
joined by ex-soldiers and death squad leaders.
But when a celebratory anti-Aristide rally was attacked on
Sunday, and six people died, Philippe withdrew the pledge.
(Additional reporting by Joseph Guyler Delva in Port-au-
Prince, and Horace Helps in Kingston)
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