Student demonstrators shot by U.S./UN troops in Haiti.

Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network May 11, 2005

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. Reports coming in are that MINUSTAH opened fire on the unarmed students. No confirmation of whether anyone was killed yet. However, many were wounded and rounded up and arrested as is the norm with the foreigners in Haiti. Since the Coup d'etat, Haiti has suffered from floods and today was a day marked by an earthquake. It seems that even nature is as appalled as Haitians by the barbarity brought to Haiti by foreigners and their blan peyi. The students are now acknowledging that they were used to protest against the Constitutional government but that Group 184, the opposition and their various supporters had PERSONAL problems with President Aristide, not the best interest of the people of Haiti at heart. The students were used by the power elites, their media machines and U.S./Euro Embassies to help give a "progressive" facade to the sweatshop kingpins and wealthy elites but now ALL resourceless Haitians and ALL poor Haitian youths are suffering under the occupation and U.S.-imported Latortue government in a massive killing-way never seen before, even under the Duvalier and previous first Bush-coup d'etat regime.