Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor Haitian Neighborhood [View All]

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Democracy Now
Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor Haitian Neighborhood
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144235
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United Nations troops in Haiti opened fire last week on a poor neighborhood outside of Cite Soleil. We show footage of the raid, speak with a writer and activist who witnessed the raid and hear from the mother of a nineteen year-old who was killed in the raid. Is life in Haiti improving under the new presidency of Rene Preval? Well just last week, UN forces opened fire on a poor neighborhood outside of Cite Soleil. An international delegation of activists was in the area and witnessed what happened. They also caught much of the raid on tape. In a moment we are going to play some of that tape. But first we are joined in our firehouse studio by one of the witnesses. Ben Terrall is a writer and activist. He just returned from Haiti this week.

* Ben Terrall, writer and activist who just returned from Haiti. His writings have appeared in CounterPunch, In These Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and else where.

We go back to the day of the UN raid in Simon Pele. These are members of the international delegation describing the scene:

* Witnesses describe the UN raid as it is caught on tape.

Nineteen year-old Wildert Sanedy was shot and killed by UN troops in the raid. The delegation caught up with his mother, Adacia Sanedy, four days after the shooting. She spoke about her son.

* Adacia Sanedy, son killed by UN troops in Haiti.