HAITIANS KILLED IN PRO-ARISTIDE DEMONSTRATION UNDER AMERICAN OCCUPATION ----- Original Message ----- From: Malaika Kambon To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:16 PM 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. 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