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10/31/2004:

"Police terror sweeps across Haiti"

UN looks on as slum-dwelling Aristide supporters are killed or thrown into jail without charge

Reed Lindsay in Port-au-Prince
Sunday October 31, 2004
The Observer

The bodies had been whisked away but the dried pool of blood covering the dirt-floor dead end of a twisting alley was a chilling sign of what happened here last week.

Residents in the National Fort district, which like most of Port-au-Prince's slums is a bastion of support for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, gathered around the darkening blood the following day. Some, who were afraid to give their names, said policemen wearing black masks had shot and killed 12 people, then dragged their bodies away. At least three families have identified the bodies of relatives at the mortuary; others who have loved ones missing fear the worst.

Full Article : guardian.co.uk