28941: Sontaine (comment) Response to Whites query (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> From Georges Sontaine:

Randall White asks

“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? “

The below articles I have collected (in chronological order) from many 
journalists will help enlighten him:

Aristide's Tinderbox
Haitian Militants Losing Faith in President's Promise
of Reform
by Michael Deibert
August 28 - September 3, 2002
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0235,deibert,37823,1.html

Political Violence Rules Cité Soleil
By Anne Fuller
The Miami Herald, November 26, 2003
http://haitipolicy.org/content/1086.htm

Haitian Gangs Combat Demonstrators
All Things Considered, February 10, 2004
In Haiti, protests for and against the government of President Jean Bertrande 
Aristide have become a daily occurrence. And so have attacks on demonstrators 
by armed gangs called "chimere."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1669612

Militias' might key to Aristide's grip on power
By Steven Dudley, Boston Globe Correspondent,
February 19, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/02/19/militias_might_key_to_aristides_grip_on_power/

Militants attack anti-Aristide protesters
By Mark Stevenson
Port-au-Prince
February 22, 2004
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/21/1077072893621.html?from=storyrhs

Town taken from rebels feels heat of reprisal
Accusations of brutality by pro-Aristide militias in the city of St. Marc show 
why there is little support for the president as rebels try to topple him.
The Miami Herald
Tue, Feb. 24, 2004
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/reprisal.htm

Film links Aristide to warlords
A new feature documentary shows how gang members in Haiti allegedly became 
former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's private army.
By Joe Mozingo, The Miami Herald
Posted on Mon, Mar. 20, 2006
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/14139896.htm

Some of the Stevenson article ("Militants loyal to Jean-Bertrand Aristide have 
attacked protesters demanding the Haitian strongman resign with barrages of 
shotgun fire, rocks and bottles.") might be of particular interest to White.

There, doesn't it feel better to let the truth in?

Regards,

G

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