18289: Arthur: Re: 18245: (Chamberlain) and 18265: (Chamberlain) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Charles Arthur writes a la Chamberlain:

Marvellous how the mainstream media -- in this case Associated Press and its
correspondent Mike Norton, and AFP and its correspondent Dominique Levanti --
are able to file reports on the 'fall of Gonaives' dated 6 February without
once mentioning Jean Pierre, aka Tatoune, for their "own Greater Ideological
Convenience"...


At the end of January 2004, Tatoune was named by the anti-Aristide Artibonite
Resistance Front as the new 'departmental police director'. The Front, which
unites followers of Tatoune and followers of the murdered Raboteau leader,
Amiot Metayer, also named Amiot's brother, Butteur, as 'police inspector' ,
Bertrand Wilfort, aka Ti Will, as 'departmental police commissioner', and Winter
Etienne as 'mayor' of Gonaives.

Tatoune has led many of the violent attacks on police in Gonaives since he
escaped from prison in August 2002 (along with Amiot Metayer and some 150 other
inmates of the city prison). Tatoune is a former FRAPH leader who was
sentenced to forced labour for life in 2000 for his participation in the 1994 Raboteau
massacre.