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CENSORED BY YOUTUBE!!!
Due to complaints, we assume have been launched by the United Nations to cover up their role in this heinous massacre in Haiti, this video is no longer available on this site. YOUTUBE claims they have sole discretion to decide whether a video is inappropriate based on content. Do a search on Iraq and you will see videos far more graphic than this one. We respect YOUTUBE"s right to apply a double standard asking only that THEY DISCLOSE WHO PRESSURED THEM TO CENSOR THIS IMPORTANT PIECE OF HAITIAN HISTORY. The victims of this crime deserve better than to be discarded by an arbitrary double standard.
You may view this video on our website at:
www.haitiinformationproject.net
in the near future.
WARNING: Contains graphic material. also: www.HaitiInformationProject.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75VTRSKIaM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8r57TmCI60 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RSZI3zUqkM\ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75VTRSKIaM
This is an unedited excerpt from an earlier version of Kevin Pina's documentary "HAITI: We must kill the BANDITS." It combines Pina's interview on FLASHPOINTS with video shot by Haiti Information Project videographer Jean-Ristil Jean-Baptiste.
Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - In the early morning hours of July 6, more than 350 UN troops stormed the seaside shantytown of Cite Soleil in a military operation with the stated purpose of halting violence in Haiti. The successful goal of the mission was to assassinate a 31 year-old man and his lieutenants that Haiti's rightwing media and reactionary business community had labeled a bandit and armed of supporter of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. According to residents, Emmanuel "Dread" Wilmer and four others were felled in a hail of gunfire that came from all directions including a circling helicopter. According to the Associated Press, a military spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Colonel Eloufi Boulbars stated, "Armed bandits who had tried to resist were either killed or wounded."
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_12_5.html
Due to complaints, we assume have been launched by the United Nations to cover up their role in this heinous massacre in Haiti, this video is no longer available on this site. YOUTUBE claims they have sole discretion to decide whether a video is inappropriate based on content. Do a search on Iraq and you will see videos far more graphic than this one. We respect YOUTUBE"s right to apply a double standard asking only that THEY DISCLOSE WHO PRESSURED THEM TO CENSOR THIS IMPORTANT PIECE OF HAITIAN HISTORY. The victims of this crime deserve better than to be discarded by an arbitrary double standard.
You may view this video on our website at:
www.haitiinformationproject.net
in the near future.
WARNING: Contains graphic material. also: www.HaitiInformationProject.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75VTRSKIaM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8r57TmCI60 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RSZI3zUqkM\ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75VTRSKIaM
This is an unedited excerpt from an earlier version of Kevin Pina's documentary "HAITI: We must kill the BANDITS." It combines Pina's interview on FLASHPOINTS with video shot by Haiti Information Project videographer Jean-Ristil Jean-Baptiste.
Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - In the early morning hours of July 6, more than 350 UN troops stormed the seaside shantytown of Cite Soleil in a military operation with the stated purpose of halting violence in Haiti. The successful goal of the mission was to assassinate a 31 year-old man and his lieutenants that Haiti's rightwing media and reactionary business community had labeled a bandit and armed of supporter of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. According to residents, Emmanuel "Dread" Wilmer and four others were felled in a hail of gunfire that came from all directions including a circling helicopter. According to the Associated Press, a military spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Colonel Eloufi Boulbars stated, "Armed bandits who had tried to resist were either killed or wounded."
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_12_5.html
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6.4
no kidding
said:
good show for an Aristide supporter. No wonder that haiti is so badly seen around the world. You will go to any length for a polital gain. Too bad for this poor country of suffering people. They will never get out of poverty when you are doing such a great job
good show for an Aristide supporter. No wonder that haiti is so badly seen around the world. You will go to any length for a polital gain. Too bad for this poor country of suffering people. They will never get out of poverty when you are doing such a great job
7.75
Zygotex2
said:
I don't question the seriousness or honesty of this video. However, it would be made far more effective by including U.N. participation; placing them at the scene of the crime, interviewing troops.
I don't question the seriousness or honesty of this video. However, it would be made far more effective by including U.N. participation; placing them at the scene of the crime, interviewing troops.
10
jh
said:
I heard an interview with one of he videographers who said that here was no way to film the UN firing at the time. There 20,000 rounds fired over a period of about four hours and mos of it aimed towards anything that moved. The UN also apparently refused any interviews on the scene and withdrew leaving the community a shambles. There does seem to be ample testimony from residents immediately following the withdrawal that corroborates this version of events. Local human rights organizations took hours of testimony in the days that followed.
I heard an interview with one of he videographers who said that here was no way to film the UN firing at the time. There 20,000 rounds fired over a period of about four hours and mos of it aimed towards anything that moved. The UN also apparently refused any interviews on the scene and withdrew leaving the community a shambles. There does seem to be ample testimony from residents immediately following the withdrawal that corroborates this version of events. Local human rights organizations took hours of testimony in the days that followed.
8.19
Yvonni
said:
This is some incredible footage. This UN force is nothing but a proxy army for the US trying make sure the coup
This is some incredible footage. This UN force is nothing but a proxy army for the US trying make sure the coup
alicia said:
I don't know what exactly took place on that day, but I do know since that time Haiti has been a much better place to live. The kidnappings and armed theft is way down, so I have to believe the UN did something right that day. Thank you for making Haiti a much better place to live.
I don't know what exactly took place on that day, but I do know since that time Haiti has been a much better place to live. The kidnappings and armed theft is way down, so I have to believe the UN did something right that day. Thank you for making Haiti a much better place to live.
6.4
USARODNEY
said:
WOW, That was very sad and uncalled for. The UN mission placed no value and respect on the lives that community. That was Babaric and their forces are very unexperienced, mediocre and careless in their technique of law enforcement. What a horrific scene. Did we even have a haitian power in place at that time? If so Shame on them.
WOW, That was very sad and uncalled for. The UN mission placed no value and respect on the lives that community. That was Babaric and their forces are very unexperienced, mediocre and careless in their technique of law enforcement. What a horrific scene. Did we even have a haitian power in place at that time? If so Shame on them.
hip said:
After they killed these poor and made Haiti safre for the rich then they abandoned them to poverty. Despite 1.5 billion in aid.... Rising costs force Haiti's poor to resort to dirt as food The Associated Press Tuesday, January 29, 2008 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a one-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau. The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal. "When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking slightly thinner than the slim 6 pounds, 3 ounces (2.8 kilograms) he weighed at birth. Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is increasingly concerned about food prices, which are up as much as 40 percent on some Caribbean islands. Floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season forced the agency to declare states of emergency in Haiti and several other countries. Caribbean leaders held an emergency summit in December to discuss cutting food taxes and creating large regional farms to reduce dependence on imports. At the market in the La Salines slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 U.S. cents, up 10 U.S. cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost US$1.50 (€1). Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs US$5 (€3.40), the cookie makers say. Still, at about five cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Salines market, a maze of tables of sweet-smelling vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town. Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun. The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets. A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered. Assessments of the health effects are mixed. Dirt can contain deadly parasites or toxins, but can also strengthen the immunity of fetuses in the womb to certain diseases, said Gerald N. Callahan, an immunology professor at Colorado State University who has studied geophagy, the scientific name for dirt-eating. Haitian doctors say depending on the cookies for sustenance risks malnutrition. "Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it," said Dr. Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti's health ministry. Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them. "I'm hoping one day I'll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these," she said. "I know it's not good for me."
After they killed these poor and made Haiti safre for the rich then they abandoned them to poverty. Despite 1.5 billion in aid.... Rising costs force Haiti's poor to resort to dirt as food The Associated Press Tuesday, January 29, 2008 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a one-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau. The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal. "When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking slightly thinner than the slim 6 pounds, 3 ounces (2.8 kilograms) he weighed at birth. Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is increasingly concerned about food prices, which are up as much as 40 percent on some Caribbean islands. Floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season forced the agency to declare states of emergency in Haiti and several other countries. Caribbean leaders held an emergency summit in December to discuss cutting food taxes and creating large regional farms to reduce dependence on imports. At the market in the La Salines slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 U.S. cents, up 10 U.S. cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost US$1.50 (€1). Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs US$5 (€3.40), the cookie makers say. Still, at about five cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Salines market, a maze of tables of sweet-smelling vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town. Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun. The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets. A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered. Assessments of the health effects are mixed. Dirt can contain deadly parasites or toxins, but can also strengthen the immunity of fetuses in the womb to certain diseases, said Gerald N. Callahan, an immunology professor at Colorado State University who has studied geophagy, the scientific name for dirt-eating. Haitian doctors say depending on the cookies for sustenance risks malnutrition. "Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it," said Dr. Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti's health ministry. Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them. "I'm hoping one day I'll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these," she said. "I know it's not good for me."
9.54
Jistis
said:
These are hard truths to look at, but it is important that those of us sheltered from the reality of Cite Soleil look at them. It is our tax dollars that fund these atrocities, our officials that command them. People in Cite Soleil don't have the right to say this kind of thing is inappropriate and turn off their computers.
These are hard truths to look at, but it is important that those of us sheltered from the reality of Cite Soleil look at them. It is our tax dollars that fund these atrocities, our officials that command them. People in Cite Soleil don't have the right to say this kind of thing is inappropriate and turn off their computers.
johnthequad said:
ITS THREE YEARS SINCE THIS AWSOME VIDIO AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE,NOW HATIANS ARE RIOTING FOR FOOD PRICES TRIPLING Subject: URGENT HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOR HAITI We (America) need to send food (Rice, Beans, Cooking Oil, Flour) to Haiti. America send food for Africa, and Asian countries but discriminate against Haitian people because they don't have Gold, Oil, Diamond, Uranium, Gems or Precious Metals that we can plunder from their country. Also the other reason we don't go out of our way to feed or build homes or create business ventures in Haiti is Haitian?s are "To Black" for our standard of shades of color. Its a fact well known. ?The brown paper bag test is alive and well?
ITS THREE YEARS SINCE THIS AWSOME VIDIO AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE,NOW HATIANS ARE RIOTING FOR FOOD PRICES TRIPLING Subject: URGENT HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOR HAITI We (America) need to send food (Rice, Beans, Cooking Oil, Flour) to Haiti. America send food for Africa, and Asian countries but discriminate against Haitian people because they don't have Gold, Oil, Diamond, Uranium, Gems or Precious Metals that we can plunder from their country. Also the other reason we don't go out of our way to feed or build homes or create business ventures in Haiti is Haitian?s are "To Black" for our standard of shades of color. Its a fact well known. ?The brown paper bag test is alive and well?
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