Hundreds of Corpses Fill Haiti Morgues

[seemslikeadream]

Monday, April 12th, 2004



We speak with an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild which recently sent a delegation to Haiti. He says he saw hundreds of corpses being dumped by morgues in Haiti and describes bodies coming in with plastic bags over their heads and hands tied behind their backs, piles of corpses burning in fields and pigs eating their flesh.

It has been a little over a month since Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted and a new U.S.-backed government was installed in what Aristide has called a "modern-day kidnapping in service of a coup."
U.S. troops were ordered to Haiti within one hour of President Aristide's departure even though both President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell had said they would not deploy more forces there until there was a political solution. Despite the 3,500 U.S.-led troops in the country, the battle for control is still being waged in numerous Haitian towns.



The Jamaica Observer is reporting that gang leaders and paramilitaries still control large swaths of northern Haiti, sometimes jailing suspected criminals, sometimes persecuting Aristide supporters. They patrol the streets, dispensing their own brand of justice, arresting and jailing alleged criminals while hoping to eventually become paid police officers or soldiers in a new Haitian army.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/1424200

[struggle4progress]

1. kick

:kick:

[bobbyboucher]

2. What? Did you think Bush had noble reasons for his actions?

Did you really think that this was anything more than some form of pay-back for ........ against........ why did we back the revolution against the democratically elected leader of Haiti again?

[Octafish]

3. More mass murder at the hands of the Bush Organized Crime Family.

Typical -- they bind their victims hands and put plastic bags over their heads to blindfold and torture. The BFEE and the satan-worshipping horde they work for are truly evil people. Calling them monsters takes away from their criminality as humans. Here's a small who's who of three of interest, from the time before 9-11:

Iran-Contra gangsters resurface in Bush administration

By Patrick Martin
1 August 2001

The Bush administration appealed to Senate Democrats July 27 to move ahead with the confirmation of two top-level diplomatic nominees whose appointments have been delayed because of their role in defending right-wing dictatorships and death squads in Central America.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del) said through a spokesman that a hearing for John Negroponte, nominated for US ambassador to the United Nations, would be held as early as next week. No hearing has yet been set for Otto Reich, nominated for assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs.

Negroponte and Reich are two of the three Bush administration appointees with direct operational roles in the Central American counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s. The third is Elliott Abrams, named as director of the office for democracy, human rights and international operations at the National Security Council, a White House position which is not subject to Senate confirmation. Abrams was convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair, but was later pardoned by Bush’s father in 1992.

Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras during the years when the right-wing Nicaraguan Contra forces were based in southern Honduras, just across the border from Nicaragua, supplied and armed illegally by the Reagan administration. Abrams was assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs during that period and worked closely with Oliver North in organizing the illegal arms supplies to the Contras. Reich headed the Office of Public Diplomacy, a State Department agency which illegally funded pro-Contra propaganda both in the US and internationally.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/cont-a01.shtml

[seemslikeadream]

5. And remember he's just getting started

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

Every death creates new enemies

[bobthedrummer]

7. Yep. I concur completely.

These are truly the "evil-doer's"- the BFEE.

[burrowowl]

4. Another Bu$h strike for Democracy!

GD Bu$hCo to Hell!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

6. My friend is a black retired veteran. He voted for W. I'm sending this.n/t