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Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual
Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide
Ouster; Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor
Haitian Neighborhood; Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing
Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant; Public
Outcry Forces Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots;
"I Am Not Willing To Kill Or Be Killed For Something
I Don't Believe In" - AWOL Soldier Refuses to Return
to Iraq
Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes
and Sexual Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime
After Aristide Ouster
A shocking new report in the British medical journal the Lancet
on human rights abuses in Haiti finds that 8,000 people were
murdered and 35,000 women and girls raped during the U.S.-backed
coup regime that followed Jean Bertrand Aristide. Those responsible
included Haitian police, United Nations peacekeepers and anti-Lavalas
gangs. We speak with the co-authors of the report.
Eyewitnesses Account: UN Forces Open Fire on Poor
Haitian Neighborhood
United Nations troops in Haiti opened fire last week on a
poor neighborhood outside of Cite Soleil. We show footage
of the raid, speak with a writer and activist who witnessed
the raid and hear from the mother of a nineteen year-old who
was killed in the raid.
Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing Against
Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant
Two women have testified at an evidentiary hearing in a civil
case against a former Haitian death squad leader living in
New York City. The suit against Emmanuel "Toto"
Constant was launched in December 2004 by a group of women
who suffered gang rape and other abuses from Constant's forces.
We speak with the lead attorney in the case.
Public Outcry Forces Ohio to Delay Destruction of
Presidential Ballots
A public outcry in Ohio has forced the state to delay its
plans to destroy the ballots from the contested 2004 Presidential
elections. Allegations of fraud and disenfranchisement in
the state continue to cause people to question the results
which declared Bush the winner by a 130,000 vote margin. We
speak with Steven Rosenfeld, co-author of the forthcoming
book, "What Happened in Ohio."
"I Am Not Willing To Kill Or Be Killed For Something
I Don't Believe In" - AWOL Soldier Refuses to Return
to Iraq
We hear from a soldier who is refusing to fight in Iraq. Mark
Wilkerson has been AWOL for more than a year and is turning
himself in at Fort Hood in Texas today. In a taped video statement
he says, "I am not willing to kill or be killed for something
I don't believe in. My morals said going to Iraq was not the
right thing to do." I was not going to live a life of
violence."
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