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| 1 |  | 2008-08-04: Preval Protege Grabs Evidence of Child's Kidnapping by Radio Metropole |  |
| Un véhicule qui pourrait être impliqué dans un enlèvement a été retrouvé. La voiture en question est la propriété de Assad Volcy, chef du service de presse du palais national. | Rating: 3 |
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| 2 |  | 2008-06-16: Dangerous, Narrow-minded, Petty Politics Resurgent in Haiti by Carlo Dade, director Canadian Foundation for the Americas, in Latin Business Chronicle | |
| Recently, the vice president of the Senate, Rudolph Boulos, was run out of the country because his colleagues suddenly took issue that he was born in the U.S. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 |  | 2008-06-10: Threat to Senator Boulos's Family Queried by Nancy Roc, on Radio Métropole | |
| Métropolis, May 31, 2008: Interview of police spokesman Frantz Lerebours. Roc: What do you know about the threat to a well-known senator's family? Lerebours: Nothing. | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 |  | 2008-04-07: Intention Was to Put Senator Boulos in Coma by Robert Benodin, of the opposition party RDNP | |
| Préval intended to make the senator's expulsion irreversible by inducing a diabetic coma after his imprisonment. Exclusive translation by haitipolicy.org. | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 |  | 2008-04-05: Prévale a voulu eliminer sénateur Boulos by Robert Benodin, of the opposition party RDNP |  |
| Prévale a voulu sceller destitution du sénateur Boulos, par l’incarcération suivie de coma diabétique provoqué. | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 |  | 2007-02-21: Kidnappers Hold Haiti Hostage by Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post | |
| Despite the U.N. troop presence, much of the capital is controlled by gangs. A swarm of kidnappings spreads terror and scares away foreign investment. | Rating: 3 |
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| 7 |  | 2007-01-13: The State Is in League with the Kidnappers by Laënnec Hurbon, winner of Fernando Ortiz prize | |
| It is not only negotiating with them, it is according kidnappers the right to "represent" the poor.
Yet it is mainly the poor who suffer from their depredations. The state has the advantage: it has the law, it can mobilize society behind that ethic. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 |  | 2007-01-09: Former Lavalas Official in Canada Has Record of Violence by James Morrell, project director, in Toronto Globe and Mail | |
| Jean Candio, petitioning for asylum in Canada, is known in Haiti for breaking up a church meeting in 2000 in the southern town of Pliché. The Haitian National Network for Human Rights (RNDDH), Amnesty International, and the U.N. have investigated. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 | | 2006-12-30: Aristide Is Still Pulling the Strings by Nancy Roc | |
| He's still egging on the kidnappers and patiently awaiting his opportunity. He has allies within MINUSTAH. There are links between the Preval government and its negotiating partners the kidnappers, who appear to be retained as an armed auxiliary. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 |  | 2006-09-27: What Is a Chief of 'Operation Baghdad' Doing on a Government Commission? by Stanley Lucas, Washington Democracy Project | |
| Samba Boukman has been appointed to the official Disarmament Commission. He has stated many times on the radio that he was a chief of "Operation Baghdad." This criminal operation claimed the lives of 1,939 citizens, including 108 police officers. | Rating: 3 |
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| 11 |  | 2006-09-20: Top Police Inspector Killed; Shootings also in P-ville by news sources | |
| A top police inspector is said to have been shot and killed by motorcycle assassins in Carrefour this noon. Also gunplay in Petionville this a.m. | Rating: 5 |
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| 12 |  | 2006-09-19: U.N., Preval Are Coddling Criminals by RNDDH, National Human Rights Network | |
| MINUSTAH is holding a notorious serial killer whom it should turn over to the police, but is saving him for a disarmament commission. Preval has named the spokesman for Operation Baghdad as his representative to the commission. | Rating: 5 |
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| 13 | | 2006-08-21: Insecurity and Its Questionable Ties to the Government by Nancy Roc | |
| On the one hand Preval says disarm or die and there is no negotiating with criminals. On the other he has them at the palace and promises them hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiet. Which way will it be? | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 |  | 2006-08-16: Aristide Partisans Turn Against Preval for First Time by Radio Kiskeya | |
| Aristide demonstrators and gangleaders warn of a bloodbath if Preval joins so-called "assailants" and seeks to disarm them. Also contend it was "thanks to the armed actions of the popular sector" that he was returned to power this year. | Rating: 4 |
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| 15 |  | 2006-08-03: Storm of Killings in Martissant Has Wide Implications by Michael Deibert, Interpress | |
| The author of The Last Testament reports that after a period of calm following the election of President Préval, the violence appears to have returned. Neither the police nor the U.N. seem able or willing to stop it. | Rating: 5 |
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| 16 | | 2006-07-31: Bus Hijacked, Passengers Taken Hostage by Radio Kiskeya | |
| Gangs were able to seize a bus with no intervention by police or U.N. | Rating: 3 |
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| 17 |  | 2006-07-31: Gangs Drive Hundreds from Grand Ravine Neighborhood by Myrna Domit, Associated Press | |
| U.N. officials say the coordinated nature of the violence suggests an attempt to stir chaos by well-armed, politically aligned gangs. Many are loyal to ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. | Rating: 3 |
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| 18 |  | 2006-07-31: Authorities Ignoring Violence by Solidarité des Femmes Haïtiennes (SOFA) | |
| Nothing is being done to counter armed gangs taking over whole neighborhoods. | Rating: 3 |
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| 19 |  | 2006-07-25: Must Draw the Line Against Kidnappers by Stanley Lucas | |
| The link that Stanley Lucas draws between those who sow terror in Haiti and those who would do so in America is something you may be reading about more in coming months. | Rating: 5 |
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| 20 | | 2006-07-25: Is Preval Going to Give Government Jobs to the Aristide Gangs? by Robert Benodin, of Rassemblement de Democrates Nationaux Progressistes d'Haiti | |
| Preval was too long in Aristide's shadow and lacks leadership. Now, gang leader Rene Civil moves freely. Under violent pressure of the gangs, the Nord-Est and local elections remain unscheduled. Soon the gangs may get their government jobs back. | Rating: 3 |
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