a1547: Re: a1504: Re: a1480: Haiti Support Group hails recent progress in the strug... (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Charles Arthur writes:

When Kevin Pina wrote that he was an eyewitness to events on October 2, 2000,
when an alleged 'altercation' between the then Delmas police chief, Jacky
Nau, and Lavalas Family supporters, Ronald Camille, took place during a
demonstration in front of the Provisional Electoral Council headquarters, we
were hoping to be informed. The Haiti Support Group is quite prepared to hold
its head in shame and admit that it often relies on media reports since it
lacks the resources to deploy staff in Haiti. Therefore we were disappointed
to read Kevin Pina's description of what he saw happen:

"Two tires were thrown over the heads of the crowd into the circle of energy
created by the tension between the crowd, their leaders and the police who
drew their guns at instinct. No one sat down and had a tire put around their
head, no one had gasoline doused upon them and summarily set ablaze."



Who threw the tires, what is a circle of energy, who were the leaders of the
crowd, was Ronald Camille there, was Jacky Nau there, did Jacky Nau draw his
gun, what is drawing a gun "at instinct", what happened
next.....?????????????? He tells us no one was necklaced but no one ever
suggested they had been. The reports wrote of an 'attempt'.

Kevin Pina's eyewitness testimony does nothing to elucidate, and we are sadly
none the wiser.

Looking through all these prisms is leaving us squinting.