[news] 7 Questions (Haiti)

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"At another level, we have sort of more brutal sweeps that are targeting the poor en masse. So literally going into poor neighbourhoods and opening fire, or going after known militants, organizers, local leaders in the community, and hunting them down. Nobody really knows how many people have been killed, but we know that just in March [2004], the first month after the coup, the morgue in Haiti had over 1000 bodies disposed of, and a normal month would be like a hundred. So the rate of killing is just astronomical, it's far worse that the '91-94 period, and some human rights people within Haiti estimate that as many as 10 000 people have been killed since February 29 of last year."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/125032/502