Haiti’s brutal history largely of our making

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Nick Coleman, Star Tribune

March 7, 2004 NICK07



In 1992, Antoine Izmery sent me grisly autopsy photographs of the bullet-riddled corpse of his dead brother and begged me — an acquaintance — to tell Americans the truth about Haiti. By the time I did, he had been murdered, too.


This time, they came for Antoine Izmery. They came into the church where he was praying, dragged him out onto the street, and blew out his brains. A picture of it was in your newspaper.

He was 46.

The media don’t tell us much about the truth of Haiti because we aren’t interested and, besides, it is unpatriotic to question our government these days. We are busy waving the flag and building freedom around the world. Except next door, in Haiti, where the guys carrying guns and smashing furniture are the same guys who were convicted, in absentia, for killing Antoine Izmery


What it will be in Haiti is not yet decided. But democracy, the cause for which the Izmerys and so many others died, is on the run. Aristide has been deposed again, which was the goal all along of the administration of George W. Bush, builder of democracy, who cut off American aid to Haiti the day he got into the White House.

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[Just Me]

1. The media is controlled by the rich, not obliged to serve the public.

Hence, I commit myself to writing the media outlets at least once a week about how much they suck because they are too lazy and afraid to do real investigative reporting into matters such as these. Their service is worthless, and they lost this customer some time ago.