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Maybe Port-au-Prince is ‘Haiti’s Next Great City’

012406haiti.jpg Yesterday police arrested four men — all students at University City High School — in the videotaped beating of a Drexel grad student from Haiti. The teenagers planned the attack and sought out a random victim. What nice boys!

NBC 10 got an interview with the victim — he’s blacked out in that photo — and they said on its front page that the “victim of a horrible assault taped by four teens says Haiti is safer than Philadelphia.” He doesn’t actually say that in the interview, it seems; he does say he’s never seen anything like this before and his brother says Philly is “a city known for violence.”

Still, the interview of a Haitian man who said his native country is safer than Philadelphia (maybe) comes on a very interesting day. Haiti just happens to be highlighted on the front page of The New York Times and the story begins like this:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 21 - Nearly 20 months after the United Nations arrived to stabilize the hemisphere’s poorest country and avert a civil war, there is still no cease-fire in this violent city on the sea.

Blasts from tanks and machine guns go on for hours almost every day around Cité Soleil, a steamy slum of concrete hovels and canals of raw sewage at the capital’s northern edge. No one knows for sure how many civilians have been killed inside because the bodies of the slum-dwellers and local gangsters rarely make it to morgues.

But, hey, Philly’s got Benergy! Eh? Eh?

Victim Speaks About Videotaped Beating [NBC 10]
Fear and Death Ensnare U.N.’s Soldiers in Haiti [NYT]

  1. Rev. Bishop Rich Says: Jan 24 7:31 PM

    This is a bunch of hype lies. It amazes me that a small group of gansters in the Cite Soleil area can hold a country in bondage. In any country with a well trained and proportionate police force for the population this would not happen.

    It amazes me how the U.N. is constantly accused of human rights violations. The fact is there are no Haitians that believe the U.N. is doing any good because they are paralized by a liberal press and human rights groups that side with the rebellious gangsters who hide in this area and paralize the masses of the population.

    Many of the recent kidnappings have been by these gangs, some of the abductees are well traveled in Haiti and know exactly where they have been brought to - Cite Soleil. The snipers and ambushers that attack the U.N. have come from Cite-Soleil - murderers of those sent to stabilize the nation……

    It amazes me how the press approves and even covers these evil doers. It has been reported that ransom money has been exchanged in front of the U.N. by kidnappers. The kidnappers, extortioners, murderers fear no retribution from the U.N. - because the leftist view that the gangsters and badits are being violated pre-vails for the uninformed……..

    I have been in Haiti 7 times in the last 12 months for 2-3 weeks at a clip. My view is not one sided. People from our churches live in many, many areas - sometimes they cannot attend due to gunfire. Most of the time it is gang to gang. People cannot make a living in this lack of peace further complicating the poverty…..

    Why should these criminals not be brought to justice. It is a known fact that these gangs kill anyone they suspect snitched there location to the authorities and then blame it on the U.N. - everything is the U.N.’s fault according to the press….

    Truth is Haitians on the ground know the truth - the U.N. stands around and gets shot at, and the people and the interim Haitian government have aksed for the civil order to be restored - yet politics and bureaucracy paralize the U.N. soldiers…..

    I say poo-poo to the lobsided propaganda called the press and the U.N. buraucracy and Bravo -Bravo to the brave soldiers who have pot shots taken at them on a daily basis….

    Bravo to the soldiers.

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