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Prison Riot Deaths Another Black Mark Against the Haitian Government |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURES |
| Author: Reed Lindsay |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,246 Words, 7,721 Characters |
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Last December 1, when the U.N. peacekeeping force in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was preoccupied with the heavy gunfire erupting around the national palace as then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited Haitian President Boniface Alexandre, the smoke billowing from the national penitentiary a few blocks away drew scant attention.
Prisoners in a three-story cellblock called "the Titanic" had rioted, broke free from their cells, set fire to mattresses, and brandished lengths of water pipe as weapons. Guards called in a special police unit that helped quell the riot. Police officials said seven prisoners were killed and more than forty detainees and several guards were wounded.
But prisoners and other witnesses said the government is concealing a bloodbath in which police and guards kill...
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...nation where the adult literacy rate is about 50 percent.
Police spokeswoman Gessy Coicou said the latest official death toll is ten, because three prisoners wounded in the riot have died. This list has not been made public, and the guards have not told Mrs. Pierre whether her son, who was in a cell on the second floor of the penitentiary, is alive.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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