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Today on Flashpoints:
The US turns the keys to Haiti's killing fields back over
to the killers;
We'll have a report from Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Kevin Pina in Port-Au-Prince on revenge attacks against Aristide
supporters and on the Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune;
We'll also speak to Haitian activists across the country,
and with Hazel Ross-Robinson, a close personal friend of the
Aristides;
and from New York City, the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: As Guy Philippe claims control of the police
and the military in Haiti, President Aristide, from exile,
says that he was the victim of the oldest police trick in
the book - bad cop, evil cop. Gunfights and lootings continue
while the US Marines stand by claiming their mandate does
not include peace-keeping in streets controlled by the insurgents
and 2,000 criminals released from the National Penitentiary
in the "liberation" of the Capital. Aristide loyalists
are being assassinated in the poor neighborhoods by death-squad
and former FRAPH as Aristide remains under armed guard of
French troops in the Central African Republic
...but the implied threat of progressive governments
being destabilized under a new CIA template of privately funded
armed opposition, along with international embargoes, followed
by challenges to the electoral process, fomented violence,
and forced presidential resignations or takeovers has had
an effect in South Africa... in Zimbabwe... and in Venezuela
- Robert Knight
We were misled about their plan to force out Aristide. I
don't think any member of Congress can now trust what this
Administration tells us. - Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek, CBC
5:05 PM PST
Return To Murder: Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin
Pina and Brian Concannon of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux
report from Port-Au-Prince. Kevin provides a summary of his
interview with Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and describes the
situation on the streets and in the poor neighborhoods where
the insurgents drive through at will firing automatic weapons,
terrorizing civilians and assassinating Aristide supporters.
Brian provides the criminal
backgrounds of the new police and military leaders and
the restoration of convicted former murderers and coup participants,
and the utter tragedy of 10 years of hard-won progress nurturing
Democracy and the Rule of Law obliterated overnight with the
release of criminals from the National Penitentiary. Both
Brian and Kevin discuss the source of the new US-made M-16s
and M-60s used by the insurgents which were almost certainly
part of Pentagon-supplied shipments of 20,000 weapons to the
Dominican Republic, and question the need for such an enormous
number of weapons for a well-armed small force totalling 35,000
in all. More on Bay
Area Indymedia and the Haiti
Action Network
5:33 PM PST
Musical Break
5:34 PM PST
Activist Roundtable: Dennis leads a discussion of the crisis
in Haiti with Jean Kurzan, host of Family Lavalas radio show
on Radio
Soleil in NY, Alina Sixto, Grassroots Haitian activist
and member of the pro-Aristide Lavalas party, and Nicole Lee,
Human Rights attorney and Managing Director of Global
Justice and steering committee member for the Let
Haiti Live project. In this segment - an open letter to
President Bush, the record of humanitarian projects under
Aristide's Presidency, and a call to action against the policies
which have led to the removal of the democratically-elected
President of Haiti this chaos and lawlessness. Demand that
President Aristide be allowed to address the UN; March from
11AM to 6PM on Saturday March 6 on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn
to Grand Army Plaza; Mobilization to protest the Bush Administration's
intervention of Haiti's democracy, 11AM Lafayette Park, Washington
DC
5:55 PM PST
Barbara Lubin of the Middle
East Children's Alliance announces an upcoming lecture
by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti at the King Middle School on Rose
St. in Berkeley at 7PM on Sunday March 7, 2004.
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