US PULLS STRINGS IN HAITI - MARJORIE COH

I pulled this article up because I am interested in Haiti and it suggested that the American Secretary of State visited Port au Prince last Tuesday. 
 
The following is lifted from THE OPED piece. This even happened in the distant past, not last August. 
 
On August 20, police accompanied by machete-wielding civilians attacked a soccer crowd of thousands, shooting or hacking to death at least six and as many as 30 spectators. "Our tax dollars were at both ends of the killing," Brian Concannon, Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, told the Congressional Black Caucus last week. "The soccer game was sponsored by a USAID program, to promote peace in the neighborhood. The US also sponsors the killers, the Haitian National Police, by providing guns and weapons despite a consistent history of police killing over the last 18 months." 
 
Cohn has Father Jean-Juste and Prime Minister Neptune incarcerated. They were released a year ago. 
 
The article is so disastrously flawed as to be of absolutely no value to the Aristide team. In fact, it is a classic example of material written by people who have never been to Haiti and know little about that nation and its problems. 
 
Michael Collins

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