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#3313: Haiti Opposition Candidate Kidnapped: Grey comments
From:Racine125@aol.com
<< Four men in a pickup truck abducted Claudy Myrthil in front of his home in
a Port-au-Prince suburb Tuesday, said Mischa Gaillard, spokesman for the
five-party opposition coalition, known as Space for Concord.>>
AHP doesn't give any info on this for April 19. Maybe tomorrow. I bet that
the Space for Magouilleurs staged the abduction. Let's see how Claudy comes
out of it. And I wonder, does he have rivals within the Space for
Magouilleurs, who might have killed him and then claimed "abduction" to cover
their own tracks? It's remarkable how former pro-putchistes start screaming
accusations of the very tactics they enthusiastically employed from 1991 -
1994. I hate to say 'I told you so...', but... I did! ;-}
On the other hand, from AHP, we have the following:
(By the way, there is a reasonably good translation function at altavista.com)
"Port-au-Prince, 18 avril 2000 -(AHP)- L'organisation politique Fanmi Lavalas
s'est élevée mardi contre les accusations portées contre le gouvernement et
le Mouvement Lavalas par un membre du secrétariat international du Parti
Socialiste français.
M. Paul Cozigon, considéré comme un proche du CONACOM et du PANPRA, deux
partis membres de l'Internationale Socialiste, a accusé le régime Lavalas
d'être d'essence anarcho populiste et d'encourager des actes de violence dans
le pays."
I am trying to keep a tally of dead and wounded this time around, I think
this is pretty close, since between 4 and 6 were killed in the Kwa Bosal
confrontation.
<<At least 10 people have been killed - including several opposition
officials - in election-related violence in recent weeks. ...Opposition
leaders say two local party managers have been killed, party offices in other
towns attacked, and campaign workers beaten. Haiti's most prominent radio
journalist, Jean Dominique, was slain on April 3. >>
Here we go again, dear God, partisanery to the hilt and once again no
interest at all in *general principles* of respect for human rights and free
and fair elections, applied to *all Haitians, equally*.
::sigh::
Peace and love,
Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen
"Se bon ki ra",
Good is rare - Haitian Proverb
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