Summary
Haitian terrorism
International negotiations to return elected Pres Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in Haiti have stalled. In the meantime, both official government repression and the brutal terrorism of the Duvalier-era Tonton Macoute militia are driving Haitians to risk their lives as boat people.See the full content of this document
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Revenge of the Tonton Macoute.
I sit on the long front porch of the hillside Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince and hear the shots below. In Haiti's capital it is not unusual to hear shots at night. I know the shots are the work of the zinglando, enforcing the will of the army.
Zinglando is a made-up Creole word. It comes from zinglan, the broken glass that Haitians cement atop their walls to keep out intruders. But the zinglando are the intruders, and they frighten - and sometimes kill - people in this poorest country of the Western Hemisphere. The century-old Vic...See the full content of this document
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