[news] Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush's crusade for " freedom"

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Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush's crusade for "freedom" By Bill Van Auken 12 March 2005 Dozens of Haitian men, women and children drowned when their rickety homemade craft went down in the waters of the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Some 50 people had crowded onto the boat, which sank under their weight. Three survivors made it ashore to tell of the disaster, while officials reported recovering nine bodies, which were buried in a mass grave. "There's nothing we can do," said Cap-Haitien Mayor Apile Fleurent. "We're just waiting to see how many bodies are brought in by the waves." While the victims were in all likelihood trying to reach the United States, their deaths passed unnoticed in the American media. They were only a relative handful among the thousands of refugees attempting to flee the island nation, an exodus that has grown dramatically in the year since the Bush administration orchestrated a coup that overthrew the country's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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