Open season on Haiti's poor, study finds

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JEFF HEINRICH, The Gazette
Published: Friday, September 01, 2006

A study in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet suggests that, despite the presence of a Canadian-led United Nations police force and UN peacekeepers, 8,000 people have been killed and 35,000 women and girls raped in Port-au-Prince alone since the ouster of then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.

Montreal Haitian groups say the peer-reviewed study by U.S. social workers confirms what the Canadian and Quebec governments have always denied: a massive campaign of repression against Haiti's poor under the post-Aristide regime of Gerard Latortue, the country's U.S.-appointed prime minister, from March 2004 to last June.Haiti Action Montreal, an advocacy group, decried the violence yesterday and what it says is Canada's role in perpetuating it.

"Canada helped overthrow the elected government (of Aristide), provided significant aid to the installed regime (of Latortue) and led the UN police contingent, yet refuses to take any responsibility for the vast human rights abuses in Haiti over the past two years," the group said in a news release.

In the study, published online in The Lancet yesterday, two researchers at Wayne State University's School of Social Work, in Detroit, interviewed 5,720 people in 1,260 Haitian households in December 2005, asking questions about their lives in the 22 months since Aristide's fall.

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1. There is more in thursdays "Democracy Now"

http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20060831

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2. yeah, dumbaya's 'help' again...

damm those people for thinking they could elect someone * didn't like! Imagine that, darkies thinking they deserve democracy, good thing the GOP stopped that!

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3. George Bush was duty bound to enforce The Santiago Treaty

I believe Kanye West was right,

George Bush does not like Black People.



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