"Homeless Haitians say police thwart aid; Many feel they’re being forced out" by Frank Bajak, Associated Press | February 23, 2010
But WHERE are those trucks off to?
Is aid really in them?
Or is it weaponry for crowd control?
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Homeless victims of Haiti’s earthquake said yesterday that police are halting deliveries of food and water to try to force them to leave their camp on the grounds of the prime minister’s office.
Police padlocked the main gate to the hillside camp, where about 2,500 homeless people live under bedsheets and tarpaulins propped on sticks on the sloping hill leading to the office.
Stinking garbage with swarms of flies was being allowed to pile up, and portable latrines were filled, camp residents complained.
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Witnesses said police beat 22-year-old Dalida Jeanty after she picked up a broom to sweep around her tent. “They called her, and she did not come, so they beat her,’’ said her cousin, Alix Jeanty.
He was among the friends and relatives who carried the woman down the hill, where UN peacekeepers from Chile and India arranged for her to be taken to the hospital.
Sure you want to run to the U.N. for help?
What, after they have OPENED FIRE BEFORE?
"International officials and the Haitian government credit MINUSTAH with improving security in Haiti. But some Haitians see the foreign troops as prone to using reckless force with impunity. When last summer massive crowds attended the Port-Au-Prince funeral of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a popular priest, U.N. troops were seen on state television opening fire"
"The coup was promoted to advance the process of neoliberal capital accumulation, break the left and the unions, and break Famni Lavalas and the civil society organisations sustaining resistance. For years, UN 'peacekeepers' have slaughtered thousands of Haitians, and the residents have been put through rigged election procedures."
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"Given all these hardships, the Haiti government is still obligated to use what little money it has to pay off the debt to international financial institutions, much of it accrued by past dictators. This is money that the government would otherwise likely put toward healthcare and education. Even with the crises of food price inflation, hurricane recovery, and this tragedy, the government of Haiti continues to pay nearly $1 million per week....
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Bankers. Blood-sucking bankers at the bottom of everything.
A police officer guarding the gate to the prime minister’s office refused to give his name or comment on the alleged beating.
Nor would he discuss accusations they have been turning away trucks carrying food and water for the past 10 days.
And WHERE ARE THEY GOING? Around the corner to ELITE MANSIONS?
Calls to the Information Ministry yesterday were unanswered, as was an e-mail to the prime minister’s chief aide.
“We’ve been here for a month, and we were being treated well, but for the past two weeks we have been mistreated,’’ said Markinson Midey, a 22-year-old student. “Anytime they bring food or water, the police make the trucks leave.’’
And GO WHERE, readers?
Once again, the CORRUPT GOVERNMENT of Haiti is earning its stripes proving that elites stink just about any and every where.
Midey and other residents, some of them shouting angrily and banging pans when they saw reporters, said they believe the government wants to make the camp conditions so bad that people will be forced to leave, even though they have nowhere else to go.
But they will be out of the government's hair and away from the elites, problem solved.
After reporters arrived, police opened the gate they had locked....
Yeah, you guys are real heroes.
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