28935: White (question) Re: 28932: (news?) Chamberlain (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Randall White <raw@haitiaction.org>

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 17 (Reuters)  "The gangs in Cite Soleil, which is home to thousands of Aristide supporters, were mostly responsible for violence aimed at destabilizing the U.S.-backed interim government installed after Aristide was ousted from power on Feb. 29, 2004."

WOW!

Reuters certainly has expertise when it comes to "destabilizing" governments. They do know what they are talking about.

Admittedly, the line between "resistance" and "destabilization" is rather thin at times, but the questions are:

When did armed gangs from Cite Soliel ever march around the capital - let alone unchallenged?

When did armed gangs from Cite Soliel attack unarmed citizens or commit massacres?

When did armed gangs from Cite Soliel attack power stations, dams, water  supplies, radio stations, journalists, priests, missionaries, doctors or hospitals?

As far as I can tell those who might have been "pro-Lavalas" militants stayed in their own neighborhoods as a defensive resistance to an overwhelmingly-armed occupation force which included the U.S.-backed coup government's police.

RAW