HAITI - Video: New Video Footage Shows UN Troops Shooting Directly at Funeral Mourners

[magbana]

June 24, 2009...10:32 pm
HAITI (video): Footage Shows UN Shooting at Crowd in Haiti

Video footage shows UN shooting at crowd in Haiti

June 24, 2009

HIP- Port au Prince- Haiti’s largest privately owned TV station, Radio Tele-Ginen, released video footage today that contradicts denials by the UN that they only fired shots into the air during a funeral for Catholic priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste on June 18.

The footage obtained by HIP clearly shows two shots being fired by Brazilian troops from the back of a small pickup truck at crowd level. The first shot was fired in the direction of the front of Haiti’s national cathedral where one of the mourners was killed by a single shot to the head.

The UN has since claimed that they were not responsible and that their troops only fired warning shots into the air. They also claimed to have performed an autopsy on the victim and made the assertion that he had been “killed by a rock thrown by the crowd or hit with a blunt object.” Witnesses and journalists have countered that the U.N. is trying to cover-up the incident.

This is not the first time U.N. troops in Haiti have been accused of killing innocent Haitians. On July 6, 2005 the UN launched a raid on the community of Cite Soleil where residents accused them of committing a massacre.

Please go to the following URL to view video:
http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/haiti-video-footage-shows-un-shooting-at-crowd-in-haiti/

[Judi Lynn]

1. It was done so brutally. Clearly meant to scare the hell out of the survivors.

Terrorism.

It's happened before, if you recall right-wing government soldiers (SOA-trained) shooting on the crowd of mourners who tried to show their respect by attending the funeral of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador.

Purest examples of suppression you're likely to see, both done in the most unlikely settings, as well.

Hope their consciences will eventually make it impossible for the killers to find rest ever again in their lifetimes.

Hope the people in the crowd will find a way to get some relief from what has been done to that man and to them, someday.