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Today on Flashpoints:
UN forces prevent pro-democracy demonstrators from protesting
in Haiti, and open up on Haitian activists with tear gas and
rubber bullets. We'll have special reports from Father Gerard
Jean Juste in Port-au-Prince and Anthony Fenton in Vancouver,
BC. Also Guatemalan courts cut ten years off the sentences
of soldiers convicted in the bloody bludgeoning murder of
Bishop Gerardi. And the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: There's chaos in Iraq's puppet parliament;
two journalists are killed in another US checkpoint malfunction
in Iraq; a US Captain is under court-martial for the murder
of an Iraqi chauffer; Lebanon's Prime Minister is on the way
out; while United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says
Hell no, I won't go! Robert Knight from New York
5:06 PM PST
Haiti Analysis: Anthony Fenton, human rights activist and
freelance journalist based in Vancouver, British Columbia
is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, discussing the work of
the UN in Haiti in support of US goals. Also discussed is
the role of Wesley Clark and the Haiti Democracy Project in
suppressing popular democratic government in Haiti.
5:16 PM PST
Haiti On the Ground: Special Flashpoints Correspondent Kevin
Pina with Reverend Gerard Jean Juste and Attorney Bill Quigley
describe suppression by UN forces of Constitution Day protests
in Port-au-Prince calling for the return of the constitutional
government and duly elected President Aristide. Bill Quigley
describes the scene on the ground as UN forces intimidate
and open fire on protesters following distribution of leaflets
warning demonstrators to stay home.
5:42 PM PST
Guatemala Update: Adriana Beltran, Specialist on Guatemala,
Washington Office on Latin
America, interviewed by Solange Echeverria, discusse the
strategic importance of Guatemala in the Washington's plans
for Latin America and recent US "special" funding
of the Guatemalan military.
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