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Haiti Trapped in Violence and Insecurity
June 6, 2005 - 2:39pm -- jim
Anonymous Comrade writes:
Haiti Trapped in Violence and Insecurity
(Prensa Latina) — More than a year after democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was removed under US pressure, violence and insecurity are ripping Haiti apart, admits the New York Times on Monday.
Indeed, "it is hard to tell who, if anyone, has taken charge in Haiti," the newspaper underlines in a long story on growing violence in the Western Hemisphere poorest country.
A wave of kidnappings has contributed to augment insecurity. The paper quotes human rights groups reporting that more than 700 people, including seven peacekeepers, have been killed in the last eight months.
President Aristide was ousted in February 2004. He blamed Washington and France for being behind what he called coup. Gerard Latorture, who lived in South Florida, was Washington´s choice to replace Aristide.
The US sent in troops to spearhead a United Nations contingent that now totals 6,000 servicemen, a force that has failed to dismantle and disarm the gangs and guarantee safety and order. "But chaos still reigns," the New York Times reports.
"This remains a country poised for implosion, with almost all its institutions ravaged from the inside out by corruption. Ruthless mobs have risen in their place, led by drug traffickers, former military officers, corrupt police officers and street thugs. They have set off a devastating wave of murders, carjackings, armed robberies and rapes," the daily describes.
Kidnappings are the latest scourge, it adds.
According to the interim government, from 6 to 12 abductions occur in Port au Prince, the capital, every day.
Violence and insecurity are so rampant the interim authorities say they may not be able to protect their people from the coming hurricane season, much less organize them for national elections scheduled to begin in October.
On the other hand, the police of the Haitian transitional government is contributing to the rising violence: At least 25 people were killed when police officers raided Bel Air and other neighborhoods in this capital in the past days.
Anonymous Comrade writes:
Haiti Trapped in Violence and Insecurity
(Prensa Latina) — More than a year after democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was removed under US pressure, violence and insecurity are ripping Haiti apart, admits the New York Times on Monday.
Indeed, "it is hard to tell who, if anyone, has taken charge in Haiti," the newspaper underlines in a long story on growing violence in the Western Hemisphere poorest country.
A wave of kidnappings has contributed to augment insecurity. The paper quotes human rights groups reporting that more than 700 people, including seven peacekeepers, have been killed in the last eight months.
President Aristide was ousted in February 2004. He blamed Washington and France for being behind what he called coup. Gerard Latorture, who lived in South Florida, was Washington´s choice to replace Aristide.
The US sent in troops to spearhead a United Nations contingent that now totals 6,000 servicemen, a force that has failed to dismantle and disarm the gangs and guarantee safety and order. "But chaos still reigns," the New York Times reports.
"This remains a country poised for implosion, with almost all its institutions ravaged from the inside out by corruption. Ruthless mobs have risen in their place, led by drug traffickers, former military officers, corrupt police officers and street thugs. They have set off a devastating wave of murders, carjackings, armed robberies and rapes," the daily describes.
Kidnappings are the latest scourge, it adds.
According to the interim government, from 6 to 12 abductions occur in Port au Prince, the capital, every day.
Violence and insecurity are so rampant the interim authorities say they may not be able to protect their people from the coming hurricane season, much less organize them for national elections scheduled to begin in October.
On the other hand, the police of the Haitian transitional government is contributing to the rising violence: At least 25 people were killed when police officers raided Bel Air and other neighborhoods in this capital in the past days.