23050: Holmstead: These are Lartortue's "Freedom Fighters" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: John Holmstead <cyberkismet5@yahoo.com>

My God, after seeing this I have to think this
Lartortue guy is a real ***hole. "Freedom
Fighters"???!!! And now Izmery's killers are
exonerated of cold-blooded murder in broad daylight.
Save the intellectual gymnastics and equivocating for
someone else....unless you are missing a nose on your
face.

for full article with pictures:
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HP/8_4_4.html


The Victims of the Haitian "Contras" Testify

These are Lartortue's "Freedom Fighters"

The series of deadly incursions by ex-soldiers and
members of the terrorist organization, FRAPH and other
mercenaries, especially on the Haitian-Dominican
border, didn't just start a few days before the
kidnapping and forced exile of President Aristide.
Equipped and armed with expensive heavy weapons by
agents of the Bush Administration, benefiting from the
active complicity of the Dominican government and
army, and working in coordination with the internal
"opposition", these criminals have spread terror in
the border region and led harassment operations which
have claimed dozens of civilian victims during the
last two years.

Here is a brief report on the attacks led by the
former commissioner, Guy Phillipe and Louis Jodel
Chamblain, the former death squad leader, who were
presented as "freedom fighters" by the government of
Gerard Latortue. This is the summary of a document
published by the Haiti Action Committee entitled
"Hidden from Headlines."

"In the morning of July 28, 2001, commandos in
military uniforms attack five police stations in
Haiti, including the Police Academy in Freres, a
suburb of the capital. During this action the head of
this police training center was killed along with four
other police officers.

On December 17, 2001 a commando unit of 30 heavily
armed men attack during the night and take control of
the National Palace. They declare that Aristide is no
longer president and try to force the Palace security
guards to join forces with them to carry out a coup
d'etat. The scoundrels are surrounded and finally
dispersed by the police and thousands of civilians who
take to the streets to defeat this attempt."



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