I know most Kossacks seem to have little interest in Haiti, accepting the State Department's assertion that Aristide and his supporters deserved to be overthrown. But the latest reports make clear just what has transpired under the direction of Colin Powell and his henchmen Roger Noriega and Otto Reich.
Here's today's AP report:
"One rebel leader _ a convicted assassin _ even acts as de facto judge to petty criminals and supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who say bodies are still turning up in the city's bay....
French military spokesman Xavier Pons said corpses have been seen in the bay. Dozens of bullet-riddled bodies have been brought to the morgue in the last month, officials said."
Here's
CNN on the interim Prime Minister who you will recall was supposed to put together a government of national reconciliation.
"Under a U.S.-sponsored plan, Latortue last week formed a transitional government that he said is neutral but includes no Lavalas member and is loaded with Cabinet members critical of Aristide."
This is what the BBC had over the week-end.
"Haiti's new Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has hailed as freedom fighters the rebels who toppled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide last month.
Mr Latortue arrived in his home town in a US Army Black Hawk helicopter. He shared the platform with several rebel leaders, along with cabinet ministers and a representative of the Organisation of American States.
"[In the United States] they thought the people in Gonaives were thugs and bandits," he told reporters in Haiti's fourth-largest city. "But they are freedom fighters."
He thanked the city for defeating "the dictator Aristide" and promised to build hospitals, highways and provide drinkable water to the city's slum-dwellers"
People need to understand that as flawed as the Aristide government was, it has been replaced by a reign of terror that must not be met with silence.