La Saline massacre

Read here a short article that I have written for The Canary, a news website based in the UK. The article looks at the recent massacre conducted by state and/or state backed forces in the neighborhood of La Saline in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. See here for a French version.

US-backed Haitian government agents accused of conducting massacre

By @JebSpraguehttps://t.co/mCCl3jCvKA

— The Canary US (@TheCanaryUS) December 20, 2018

WikiLeaks Reveal: U.S. and UN Officials Oversaw Integration of Ex-Army Paramilitaries into Haiti’s Police Force

by Jeb Sprague

[This article will appear this week in the newspaper Haiti Liberté]

Throughout 2004 and 2005, Haiti’s unelected de facto authorities, working alongside foreign officials, integrated at least 400 ex-army paramilitaries into the country’s police force, secret U.S. Embassy cables reveal.

            For a year and a half following the ouster of Haiti’s elected government on Feb. 29, 2004, UN, OAS, and U.S. officials, in conjunction with post-coup Haitian authorities, vetted the country’s police force – officer by officer – integrating paramilitaries with the goal of both strengthening the force and providing an alternative “career path” for paramilitaries.