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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Pator apologizes for sexual immorality. Less than 24 hours after he was fired from the pulpit of the evangelical mega church he founded, the Rev Ted Haggard confessed to his followers Sunday that he was guilty of sexual immorality.

Cuban Medical Diplomacy: When the Left Has Got It Right.-Living in a hostile neighborhood led Fidel to look for allies elsewhere. Part of this process has included the conduct of medical diplomacy, which is the collaboration between countries to improve relations and simultaneously produce health benefits

Foreign diplomats say they are feverishly working behind the scenes to mend a Haitian flap with China that could jeopardize the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed here. Click here to read this article.
Haiti: Latortue's legacy.-Last month, an alarming new report on human rights abuses in Haiti under the interim Government, by two social work scholars, Athena Kolbe and Dr. Royce Hutson of Wayne State University, was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
What Future for Haiti? An Interview with Patrick Elie.-In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti amid an armed rebellion led by disgruntled former soldiers and paramilitary actors.

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Haiti Gang Fails to Disarm.-Gang leaders in Haiti's largest slum said on Monday that they were putting disarmament plans on hold due to raids by UN peacekeepers on the streets they control. Read this article.
NEW PALTZ — The town and gown joined to celebrate the written word when "The Dew Breaker" author Ed-widge Danticat spoke at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Click here to read this article.
Boston,MA.-Town Computer donated funds to ODGH, to help the victims of Hurricane Jeanne in Gonaives. The prsident and executive director of ODGH signed a fat check of 4200 to himself. Because of poor financial  management of the non-profit , The Dorchester District Court orders ODGH to pay back $437 to Town Computer. Click here to see a copy of the judgment against ODGH.
Is there any chance for Haiti? Click here to see one of the disturbing pieces of  evidence that was presented to Dorchester District Court during a trial against Michelot Youte (Michael Youte) for mismanagement of non-profit funds. As you can see, Michael Youte, the president of ODGH signed a check to himself for $4200..

Recount confirms Wilkerson victory in Boston Senate race.-City election workers, after a tense day painstakingly reviewing more than 25,000 ballots under the scrutiny of campaign volunteers and lawyers, declared Dianne Wilkerson the official Democratic nominee in the Second Suffolk Senate race.

Dems Use Intel  Report to Attack GOP.-Democrats on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in the November elections. Click here to read this article.
Man's killing shows spread of violence across Haiti.-Hundreds of people packed a Kendall funeral home Saturday to bid farewell to a former commander of Haiti's army whose tragic killing 10 days ago in an upscale Port-au-Prince suburb serves as a stark reminder of Haiti's worsening violence..
Haiti qualifies for debt relief under IMF program.-Haiti is eligible for debt relief under an Inter-national Monetary Fund program a fund official said. The fund's executive board earlier this month, in a debt sustainability analysis, determined that the country was eligible for assistance, Takatoshi Kato, deputy managing director of the fund, said in a statement released Monday. Click here to read this article
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The Death of the *RDNP .-Haitian mob  launches radio campaign against Caucasians and Jews on WUNR 1600 AM

Although the members of ODGH bragged about their sympathy to Bin-Laden and the local armed groups that are terrorizing the residents of Haiti and kidnapping dozens of American citizens who travel to the island, due to the low social and academic status of its principal leaders, Haitians in Boston did not take *ODGH seriously until the FBI dismantled an alleged local terrorist group in Florida composed of young Haitian scum. Click here to read this article
Miami- At least 10 local journalists accepted U.S. government pay for programs on Radio Martí or TV Martí. El Nuevo Herald fired two of them Thursday for conflict of interest.
Latortue's disturbing legacy.-On Feb. 29, 2004, former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forcibly removed from Haiti by the Bush administration. Several days later, Gerard Latortue was airlifted into Haiti and named the prime minister with barely a fig-leaf as a process. Latortue was a radio announcer in Boca Raton.Click here

Haiti Justice.-Demand release of jailed democracy fighter Rene Civil!   Don't let them silence the voices of Haiti's poor majority! - Free Rene and all political prisoners Click here

Haiti's Political Prisoners: Not Preval's Fault, But His Problem.-JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the political prisoners lingering in Haiti's squalid jails are not the byproduct of the policies of incoming President René Préval, they are certainly his problem, drawing criticism with each passing day. Click here to read this article.
Canadian troops in Haiti accused  of making death, rape threats.-MONTREAL -- Canadian troops and police with the United Nations in Haiti made death threats during house raids and made sexual threats against women while drunk and off-duty, according to Haitians interviewed as part of a meticulous human-rights survey by U.S. researchers in December 2005 published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet. Click here to read this article.
Police and political groups linked to Haiti sex attacks.-More than 30,000 women and girls - half under the age of 18 - were raped in Haiti's capital city in the chaotic two years following the ousting of the country's democratically elected president, a survey has suggested. About 8,000 people were killed during the same period. Click here to read this article
Annette Auguste.-Above all, Annette Auguste and her co-defendants deserve our thanks and praise for insisting on justice through the dark days of Haiti's brutal Interim Government, and the frustratingly slow transition to democracy  Read this article
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's government threw down the gauntlet to the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation's armed gangs on Thursday, telling them to lay down their weapons or be killed. Click here to read this article.

The Return: Aristide, law and democracy in Haiti.-Say "the return" when discussing Haiti, and people who follow events in the country know you are talking about former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returning from his exile in South Africa..Click here to read the article.

 
Festival commemorates Haiti's independence from France.
By Macollvie Jean-Francois
Fort Lauderdale · For Edna Djakout, figuring out how to celebrate the Haitian flag is a no-brainer: party nonstop. Since Thursday, she has watched a Flag Day parade, met friends from Naples, the Bahamas and Canada, and attended a few live music parties, or bal in Creole.
Today, Djakout, of North Lauderdale, plans to drape her car in Haiti's red-and-blue banner for the trip to Miami's eighth annual Haitian Compas Festival at Bicentennial Park, the highlight of the fun-filled cultural celebration for many Haitians."This means more to Haitians than Christmas," said Djakout, 21. "Whether you're illegal, a resident or citizen, everybody comes out that day. They're not worried about anything. They just want to get out there and have fun." Read this article.
 
René Préval: Haiti May Get One Last Chance in Spite of Washington’s Best Efforts.
With his official inauguration planned for May 14, Haitian President-elect René Préval faces a Brobdingnagian challenge in rebuilding his shattered country. Succeeding a U.S.-installed de facto government headed by Interim Prime Minister Gérard Latortue. Read this article
 
India-Brazil-South Africa: The Southern Trade Powerhouse Makes its Debut
In the face of mounting pressures to develop an alternative option to globalization—one that emerges from a developing world perspective and prioritizes egalitarian advancement, technological cooperation, and an end to global marginalization of the poor nations.-Read this article
A united message to Haiti.-For more than a decade, Washington has been bitterly divided on policy toward Haiti. In 1994 the Clinton administration, over virulent Republican opposition, sent U.S. troops into Haiti to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.Read this article
Bot Software - How to Protect Your PC-While the computer
and Internet security experts are concerned about viruses, worms and Trojans, the bot software are quietly taking over almost every computer connected to the Internet. Read This Article
Haiti Election Chief Flees Country- He Will Face Justice Soon or later-The head of Haiti's electoral council fled the country after opponents threatened his life and burned down his farmhouse nearly two weeks after disputed elections, an official said Monday. Read this article
UN Security Council calls for stability in post-election Haiti.-UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The UN Security Council on Wednesday called on all the Haitian people to refrain from violence as the results of the election are tabulated and reviewed. Read this article

The Kama Sutra Worm –A  Real Threat

By: Jacques Dady Jean

“Although Microsoft posted a security advisory warning the world about the Kama sutra/Blackmail/Mywife , they will not issue a removal tool until February 14 almost 2 weeks after the malicious software began to make victims, meanwhile their anti-virus security partners were busy promoting  their latest anti-virus and internet security software.” Read this article

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Haitian Americans call  for a Probe of  Romney's Pick - Did Pierre Imbert obtain any financial, sexual or any special treatment to allow payroll fraud scheme by tolerating one of his managers to assist a woman to obtain Massachusetts Transitional Assistance unlawfully while she lived and worked in Canada?
Aristide party threatents to boycott Haiti poll - The party of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would boycott elections later this year if a parish priest it views as its likely presidential candidate is not released from jail.
 
US Urges Haiti to Respect Human Rights - With parliamentary and presidential elections in Haiti on the horizon, possibly in November, there are indications of significant shifts in policies , both in Washington and Port au Prince...
 

Haitians are being killed for their political believes - When United Nations troops kill residents of the Haitian slum Cité Soleil, friends and family often place photographs of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on their bodies. The photographs silently insist that there is a method to the madness raging in Port-au-Prince. Poor Haitians are being slaughtered not for being "violent," as we so often hear, but for being militant; for daring to demand the return of their elected president.

 
Justice for the Cuban Five - On August 9, the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Appellate Court threw out the convictions of the Cuban Five, a stunning acknowledgement of injustice committed in the administration’s troubled fight against terrorism.
 
Pierre Imbert, Romney’s pick to lead the State Office of Immigrant and Refugees has serious ethics problems - An 11-year-old ,student of St. Angela Catholic School printed 17 controversial articles from MSN search engines about Pierre Imbert’s lack of credibility while the governor of Massachusetts seems to ignore the facts and hires Pierre Imbert to lead a State agency.
 
No Local Elections In Haiti, at Least Until Winter -PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Local elections scheduled for this fall will be postponed until after legislative and presidential elections, Haitian officials said Tuesday.
 
 
 

Imbert Chosen to Lead Refugee and Immigrant Agency -Governor Mitt Romney today swore in Pierre Imbert as the Director of the Massachusetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants.

 
Robot rolls around Children's Hospital -Gizmo" has been working at Children's Hospital Boston for almost three years without a vacation or even a coffee break...
 
No Justice for Haiti's Jean-Juste Interim government jails an opposition leader -Haiti's interim government, led by a prime minister hand-picked and hand-fed by the Bush administration, has seen fit to jail a potential presidential candidate.
 
US Will Send Gun to Human Right Violators -PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. officials in Haiti acknowledged Friday the United States will provide Haitian police with guns and riot control equipment.
 

Haitian American Political Action Committee -The Haitian American Political Action Committee pledges support to the members of the Lavalas Party and to all Haitians who have independently taken the decision to boycott the UN sponsored mock election in Haiti.

NEW YORK, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ - In response to the North American Fiqh Council's fatwa condemning terrorism, American Jewish Congress President Paul S. Miller issued the following statement:
Haiti’s Right Wing  Uses Violence  To  Push Their Political Agenda.-The UN Peacekeeping Forces in Haiti revealed Friday that they have gathered intelligence about potential attacks planned by armed fractions close to rightist groups aimed at destabilizing the country and causing the downfall of Prime Minister Latortue’s government
International Red Cross Worker Killed In Haiti.-GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- A worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped and killed in Haiti, the humanitarian agency said Friday. Full story
Haitian/Cuban  Man is 125 Years Old.-"I am 125 today," beamed Benito Martinez, as he joined the birthday party at his local old people's home in this central Cuban city.
June 17, 2005 Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - Police (PNH) launched another bloody  attack in a poor neighborhood of Haiti's capital today. The U.N. refused to comment on the operation that reportedly led to the deaths of three people and four people wounded.
 
 
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jewish leaders urge restraint in Israeli-Vatican spat - Jewish leaders urged the Vatican and Israel to tone down the rhetoric in the escalating dispute over papal pronouncements on terrorism, saying Friday they feared the feud could do lasting damage to relations.
 
Release Political Prisoner and Democracy Activist Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste (Again) - First the good news: Our mobilization is having an impact.   The grassroots outrage at the July 6 Cite Soleil shootings by UN Peacekeepers forced the UN to abandon its claim of no civilian casualties, issue an apology and even announce an investigation.
 
Canada's doubtful role in Haiti - Recently the Council of Sages, the Western-backed body that has overseen Haiti's political affairs since the February 2004 ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, made a startling recommendation.

"My body is in prison, but my soul is free." -Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste from prison      Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste is being held in isolation in the Haitian National Penitentiary. 

 
U.S., UN-backed oppression in Haiti is excessive.-With opposition to the coup government continuing into the middle of its second year in power, state and United Nations violence against the Haitian poor majority has escalated
 
Haitian Priest Assaulted by Mob at Funeral and Falsely Arrested for Murder.-On Thursday July 21, 2005, Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste went to St. Pierre's Catholic Church to be one of the priests participating in the funeral of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche
 
A Haitian Hero Killed.-Drèd Wilme was reported assassinated by the UN occupation forces in Haiti on Wednesday, July 7, 2005. But he's been falsely reported dead before
 
Final Delegation Report on UN Massacre.-Growing Evidence of a Massacre by UN Occupation Forces in Port-au-Prince Neighborhood of Cite Soleil. A Summary of Findings of the US Labor and Human Rights Delegation to Haiti
 
MSF asks armed groups to respect civilians.-Haiti
As violent attacks intensify and spread in Haiti's capital Port au Prince, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 
 
Who profits from Haiti's Crisis.-The Haitian people have seen glimpses of justice, freedom and liberty under the Lavalas regimes, they will never accept to live anymore in the darkness of fear.
 
Outsiders plan Haitian elections: No voters? No problem.-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom The elections planned by the U.S. and its allies for Haiti in the fall are a fiasco that is becoming impossible to conceal
 
Haiti: 5 Killed in Hurricane Dennis - Hurricane Dennis swept away a bridge and peeled tin roofs off homes in Haiti, killing at least five people as it strengthened to a Category 4 storm and headed straight for Cuba.
Judge Jails Times Reporter Over Source.-New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed Wednesday for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name
Police and protesters clash near G8 summit-Riot police clashed with protesters close to the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland on Wednesday after a demonstration against Group of Eight (G8) leaders ended in chaos.
A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston
SWAMPSCOTT, MA
— Sunday, July 03, 2005-The music is throbbing; the drums pound to a crescendo as the
 capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their feet for a final standing ovation.
UN Peacekeeping Chief: Haiti Worse than Sudan - The head of U.N. peacekeeping operations says conditions in parts of Haiti are worse than in Sudan's devastated Darfur region.
Haiti:  Jerry Narcis an Alleged  Kidnapper Belongs to Upper Class - Jerry Narcius, arrested by the Haitian National Police for his presumed implication in acts of kidnapping in Port-au-Prince,  is known as the son of a powerful Haitian entrepreneur and a resident of Thomassin 12, a very affluent neighborhood near Petion-Ville.
Aristide backers march in Haiti
They marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, waving banners and listening to speeches calling for Mr Aristide's return from South Africa.
 Haiti- A Civil War or a Clash Between the Rich and the Poor
UNITED NATIONS - The United States called for major reform of Haiti's judicial system Friday, saying the island has such a backlog of cases that many suspects languish in jail awaiting trial for longer periods than if they had been convicted
.US Urges Latortue to Make Change in Haiti's Justice System

  Over the past few years, the violence seemed to target the Haiti’s affluent class. Besides the different new cases of abduction tar getting members of the business community, yesterday a businessman narrowly escaped from a murder attempt in the capital when 5-armed men opened fire on his vehicle

UN needs to intervene in Haiti, says SA
Johannesburg - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party intensified its campaign on Friday for the return to Haiti of ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as part of a drive to restore order and end bloodshed in the Caribbean country.
Our Debt is Long Past Due

The Caribbean has now proved that it is even more hopeless at diplomacy than it is at cricket. And, as in cricket, those who are considered  guilty are not those at the top but the foot-soldiers.Our gutless leaders – unable to look a principle in the face –  are, as I write on Friday, busy selling the Haitian people down the river … again.

Student demonstrators shot by U.S./UN troops in Haiti
In an ironic turn too late to help thousands dead since the military overthrow of President Aristide, some of the students in Haiti, who had once stood with the Coup d'etat contingent, took to the streets today asking for a stop to the killings, arrests and oppression; the resignation of the U.S.-backed Latortue government; and, yelling "Aba Charles Baker" - down with Charles Baker and group 184.
Demonstrations Against Violence Take on Prime Minister Latortue and Business Leader Andre Apaid Junior: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
At least one person was injured when a violent incident erupted earlier today in Port-Au-Prince during an anti-government protest. The protesters urged the departure of U.S. backed Prime Minister Latortue and denounced the participation of businessman Andre Apaid in the social declining of the country,
Chief Justice toppled conviction of killers 
Haiti's one of the chief justice met the press to announce that his court has overturned the convictions of 38 army and paramilitary leaders who were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in mass killings during the 1994 coup, human rights groups have said
An Prensip  .- By Brian Concannon Jr
When Haitians say "an prensip" (in principle) to explain how something should work, "an pratik," how it works in actual practice, is rarely far behind.
Yvon Neptune Nears Death
Yvon Neptune's last meal may have been on April 17. Haiti's most recent constitutional Prime Minister, now its most prominent political prisoner, stopped eating eighteen days ago to protest ten months of illegal imprisonment
Yvon Neptune Ready to Die
Too weak to stand and pounds lighter from a hunger strike, Yvon Neptune, ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's prime minister, did not eat for a 17th day yesterday and is "ready to die", according to a lawyer.
Yvon Neptune Ill,  But  Refuses to leave Haiti.
Political prisoner Yvon Neptune, seriously ill and on day 16 of a hunger strike, remains incarcerated in Haiti despite persistent reports in the Haitian and international press that he has been flown out of the country.
Haiti Ex-Prime minister Yvon Neptune Fled  Into Exile
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The former prime minister of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ailing from a hunger strike to protest his prolonged detention, is leaving Haiti for medical care, a Dominican official and a Western diplomat reported Sunday
Haiti Bid to Rejoin Caribbean Group Lags
Haiti's bid to return to the Caribbean Community appears to be failing, with officials telling its visiting interim foreign minister this week that the violence-plagued nation must first have fair elections before it can rejoin.
Credit Suisse drops a name: First Boston - First Boston was once a powerhouse on Wall Street. Next year, it will join a list of U.S. investment banking names that have bitten the dust.
Haiti’s Right Wing  Uses Violence To Push Their Political Agenda - The UN Peacekeeping Forces in Haiti revealed Friday that they have gathered intelligence about potential attacks planned by armed fractions close to rightist groups aimed at destabilizing the country and causing the downfall of Prime Minister Latortue’s government.  
Haiti Continues to Fumble Along - According to contrasting reports from Port-au-Prince, another police raid on Bel Air and other pro-Aristide neighborhoods of the capital city has left anywhere from two to 23 dead, with over 35 reported missing.
A New Library for Mattapan is Announced - Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that a site on Blue Hill Avenue has been selected for a new library in Mattapan, pushing closer to reality a project in the works for almost a decade.
Haiti: Police killed at least 5 peaceful protesters
Haitian Political prisoner Annette Auguste speaks
   Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - I am Annette Auguste, who has     been unjustly imprisoned and held without charges in Haiti since May 10, 2004. U.S. Marines arrested me in a violent invasion of my home causing harm to my family
Justice Dodged, Part II
On April 21, 2005 the Cour de Cassation, Haiti's highest court, threw out the convictions of sixteen people found guilty by a jury in the Raboteau massacre case, Haiti's most celebrated trial ever.   The decision of the Cour de Cassation is a remarkable document because it not only reverses a famous, and closely watched trial, but it also invalidates an entire article of the 1987 Constitution
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least five people were killed by gunfire during a political demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti, which is preparing for elections in the autumn to replace its interim government.
No  Elections Without National  Healing
This was the theme of a press conference yesterday, 4/21/05, held at the Sweety Restaurant in the Port-Au-Prince neighborhood of Delmas 29.
Haitian Leaders Arrested by police
Ginette Apollon, President of the National Commission of Women Workers (CNFT) was illegally arrested on April 19, 2005 at the Port-au-Prince International Airport upon her return from the Encuentro Mundial de Solidaridad Con la Revolucion Bolivariana in Venezuela
The crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme by U.N. Troops: a historical perspective by: Marguerite Laurent 
In a staged attack, on the night of Oct. 30 -31, 1919, a U.S. soldier named Hanneken, assassinated Charlemagne Peralte, a hero known to all Haitians living today. But that was not the case in 1919
 

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Law Students And Attorneys Lodge Complaint With International  Commission On Behalf Of Former  Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune held in prison without charges since June 2004.
The  UN Security Council Goes To  Haiti To Stop The Call For Resignation Of The Latortue Regime.-By Marguerite Laurent
All 15 members of the United Nations Security Council are in Haiti from April 12 to April 16, 2005 to, according to their press release on the matter, "review progress achieved in areas such as security, development, the political transition, human rights, institution-building and the humanitarian situation."
Filipino Army soldier killed while doing civic work in Haiti
Make a Difference for Haiti in Half an Hour A Week
Haiti.- Protesters want democratically elected president back. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Protesters demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide burned an effigy of Haiti's interim leader
  
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Sunday, June 5, 2005; 

THE NEW secretary general of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, has pledged to bring up the subject of Haiti at the OAS general assembly beginning tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. If so, it won't be a moment too soon

Haitian Police Set Fire on Several Homes and Killed 25
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, June 4 (Reuters) - As many as 25 people were killed in police raids on Friday and Saturday in the slums of Haiti's capital after the government said it would get tougher on gangs, morgue workers and witnesses said.
U.N. Gives Haiti Forces Short Extension
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday extended the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti until June 24, giving members more time to settle a dispute with China over how long troops should be stationed there.
Haiti's need for United Nations peacekeepers to remain for an extended mandate suddenly took on new complexity this week, when the impoverished nation found itself entangled in the diplomatic standoff between China and Taiwan.
Three Unarmed Haitians Died from Bullets on Haiti's Flag Day
Three unarmed Haitians died from bullets yesterday, May 18, 2005. This time, it wasn't the UN soldiers who cold-bloodedly pumped bullets into unarmed Haitians protesting the ouster of President Aristide
Aristide backers march in Haiti
They marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, waving banners and listening to speeches calling for Mr Aristide's return from South Africa.
 Haiti- A Civil War or a Clash Between the Rich and the Poor
UNITED NATIONS - The United States called for major reform of Haiti's judicial system Friday, saying the island has such a backlog of cases that many suspects languish in jail awaiting trial for longer periods than if they had been convicted
.US Urges Latortue to Make Change in Haiti's Justice System

  Over the past few years, the violence seemed to target the Haiti’s affluent class. Besides the different new cases of abduction tar getting members of the business community, yesterday a businessman narrowly escaped from a murder attempt in the capital when 5-armed men opened fire on his vehicle

UN needs to intervene in Haiti, says SA
Johannesburg - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party intensified its campaign on Friday for the return to Haiti of ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as part of a drive to restore order and end bloodshed in the Caribbean country.
Our Debt is Long Past Due

The Caribbean has now proved that it is even more hopeless at diplomacy than it is at cricket. And, as in cricket, those who are considered  guilty are not those at the top but the foot-soldiers.Our gutless leaders – unable to look a principle in the face –  are, as I write on Friday, busy selling the Haitian people down the river … again.

Student demonstrators shot by U.S./UN troops in Haiti
In an ironic turn too late to help thousands dead since the military overthrow of President Aristide, some of the students in Haiti, who had once stood with the Coup d'etat contingent, took to the streets today asking for a stop to the killings, arrests and oppression; the resignation of the U.S.-backed Latortue government; and, yelling "Aba Charles Baker" - down with Charles Baker and group 184.
Demonstrations Against Violence Take on Prime Minister Latortue and Business Leader Andre Apaid Junior: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
At least one person was injured when a violent incident erupted earlier today in Port-Au-Prince during an anti-government protest. The protesters urged the departure of U.S. backed Prime Minister Latortue and denounced the participation of businessman Andre Apaid in the social declining of the country,
Chief Justice toppled conviction of killers 
Haiti's one of the chief justice met the press to announce that his court has overturned the convictions of 38 army and paramilitary leaders who were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in mass killings during the 1994 coup, human rights groups have said
An Prensip  .- By Brian Concannon Jr
When Haitians say "an prensip" (in principle) to explain how something should work, "an pratik," how it works in actual practice, is rarely far behind.
Yvon Neptune Nears Death
Yvon Neptune's last meal may have been on April 17. Haiti's most recent constitutional Prime Minister, now its most prominent political prisoner, stopped eating eighteen days ago to protest ten months of illegal imprisonment
Yvon Neptune Ready to Die
Too weak to stand and pounds lighter from a hunger strike, Yvon Neptune, ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's prime minister, did not eat for a 17th day yesterday and is "ready to die", according to a lawyer.
Yvon Neptune Ill,  But  Refuses to leave Haiti.
Political prisoner Yvon Neptune, seriously ill and on day 16 of a hunger strike, remains incarcerated in Haiti despite persistent reports in the Haitian and international press that he has been flown out of the country.
Haiti Ex-Prime minister Yvon Neptune Fled  Into Exile
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The former prime minister of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ailing from a hunger strike to protest his prolonged detention, is leaving Haiti for medical care, a Dominican official and a Western diplomat reported Sunday
Haiti Bid to Rejoin Caribbean Group Lags
Haiti's bid to return to the Caribbean Community appears to be failing, with officials telling its visiting interim foreign minister this week that the violence-plagued nation must first have fair elections before it can rejoin.
Haiti: Police killed at least 5 peaceful protesters
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least five people were killed by gunfire during a political demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti, which is preparing for elections in the autumn to replace its interim government.
No  Elections Without National  Healing
This was the theme of a press conference yesterday, 4/21/05, held at the Sweety Restaurant in the Port-Au-Prince neighborhood of Delmas 29.
Haitian Leaders Arrested by police
Ginette Apollon, President of the National Commission of Women Workers (CNFT) was illegally arrested on April 19, 2005 at the Port-au-Prince International Airport upon her return from the Encuentro Mundial de Solidaridad Con la Revolucion Bolivariana in Venezuela
The crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme by U.N. Troops: a historical perspective by: Marguerite Laurent 
In a staged attack, on the night of Oct. 30 -31, 1919, a U.S. soldier named Hanneken, assassinated Charlemagne Peralte, a hero known to all Haitians living today. But that was not the case in 1919
Law Students And Attorneys Lodge Complaint With International  Commission On Behalf Of Former  Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune held in prison without charges since June 2004.
The  UN Security Council Goes To  Haiti To Stop The Call For Resignation Of The Latortue Regime.-By Marguerite Laurent
All 15 members of the United Nations Security Council are in Haiti from April 12 to April 16, 2005 to, according to their press release on the matter, "review progress achieved in areas such as security, development, the political transition, human rights, institution-building and the humanitarian situation."
Filipino Army soldier killed while doing civic work in Haiti
Make a Difference for Haiti in Half an Hour A Week
Haiti.- Protesters want democratically elected president back. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Protesters demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide burned an effigy of Haiti's interim leader
Gunmen Ambush Police in Haiti's Capital.-PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gunmen with assault rifles ambushed a group of police in Haiti's capital on Monday
Haiti UN Warns Former Soldiers.-Haitian gangs should accept a U.N. offer to disarm and return to civilian life or else peacekeepers will deal with them "with firmness,"