Haiti: Two Killed, Fifteen Wounded During UN Assault in Cite Soleil

Haiti: Two Killed, Fifteen Wounded During UN Assault in Cite Soleil
By Anthony Fenton,
Fri Nov 11th, 2005

Mainstream news of recent UN aggression in Haiti's slums has gone from UNderreported to UNreported. The lone report thus far seems to be that by Dave Welsh, interviewed by Flashpoints radio on Thursday, November 10th. Welsh also discusses some of his recent experiences in Haiti while he (and others, part of an International Tribunal on Haiti) investigated UN involvement in reported massacres. The entire transcribed interview is posted HERE, with excerpts below.

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The following comes from notes taken (the note taker must remain anonymous) during one of the MINUSTAH meetings on Cite Soleil this past Spring, where coup supporter, sweatshop owner, and U.S. citizen with reported links to death squads, Andy Apaid, Jr. figured prominently:

"Andre Apaid, of the Group of 184, pointed out that Cite Soleil had now as an extension the Cite Militaire (Pele) area, of which the leader called "Ti Blan" (a nickname, literally translateable as "Small Light-Skinned Person," is linked to Dred Wilme. He explained that for two weeks, it had been impossible to pass through this zone. The cars are stolen there, and a driver was already killed. Mr. Apaid thus asked to extend the interventions of the MINUSTAH to this zone...Andre Apaid spoke again to indicate that according to certain information, violence which is currently unfolding in Cite Soleil will soon (at the beginning of June) be decentralized towards the other departments (geographic sub-divisions) in order to create panic and to destabilize the electoral process. He thus recommended that actions be very quickly taken."

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