Haiti's lawyer: US Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries, Calls For UN Peacekeepers
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fwd from L Moss Sharman Polygamy on the Border "Tucked up against the Vermilion Cliffs on the backside of the desert wilderness that is Zion National Park, Colorado City and Hildale may appear to be the land time forgot. Men, women and children, wearing clothing reminiscent of pioneer days, have cut themselves off from TV, the Internet and much of everything else considered to be everyday conveniences of modern life. No matter where they've settled in North America, people who believe that plural marriage is a bedrock principle of their faith have never found respite from the law. Three-quarters of a century ago, a small group of polygamists settled on the banks of Short Creek, which winds through the high desert of southern Utah and on into Arizona. There they would preserve the principle of plural marriage, believing it to be the path to the highest reach of heaven. Today the Fundamentalist Church Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints counts some 10,000 members in what now are the twin cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. A branch flourishes far to the north in Bountiful, British Columbia. Despite state and federal laws banning polygamy, the practice has continued all these years." http://www.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/03/1673018_comment.php
Haiti rebel army already using weapons to defend Levi's profits
by Campaign for Labor Rights Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2004 at 11:48 AM
Union-busting at the CODEVI Free Trade Zone Haiti rebel army already using weapons in bosses' defense!
This action alert is based on information from Yannick
Etienne at Batay Ouvriye in Haiti and the Haiti Support
Group in Great Britain.
URGENT ACTION ALERT!
Union workers fired in Haiti!
Friday, March 05, 2004
Union-busting at the CODEVI Free Trade Zone
Haiti rebel army already using weapons in bosses' defense!
Ouanaminthe, Haiti
On Monday March 2nd, 2004, 34 members of the trade union
SOKOWA (Sendika Ouvriye Kodevi Wanament - Ouanaminthe
Codevi Workers' Union) in the Codevi Free Trade Zone in
Ouanaminthe, Haiti, were brutalized and illegally fired by
the company's management and told to come take their
paychecks next Monday, March 8th. These firings were
accompanied by many threats at gunpoint, as well as
physical abuse.
http://www.democracynow.org/static/haiti.shtml
Haiti's lawyer: US Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries, Calls For UN Peacekeepers
By Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill Democracynow.org
The US lawyer representing the government of Haiti charged today that the US government is directly involved in a military coup attempt against the country's democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ira Kurzban, the Miami-based attorney who has served as General Counsel to the Haitian government since 1991, said that the paramilitaries fighting to overthrow Aristide are being backed by Washington.
"I believe that this is a group that is armed by, trained by, and employed by the intelligence services of the United States," Kurzban told the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. "This is clearly a military operation, and it's a military coup."
article describes torture
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040329&s=parenti
Posted March 11, 2004
Al Jazeera Goes to Jail by Christian Parenti
Salah Hassan looks sad and very tired. The Al Jazeera cameraman, a 33-year-old father of two, is recounting his tale of incarceration in a soft and matter-of-fact tone. Sipping tea in the lobby of the hotel that serves as Al Jazeera's Baghdad bureau, he explains how on November 3 of last year he raced to the site of a roadside bomb attack on a US military convoy in Dialah, near the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba. While he was interviewing people at the scene, US troops who had previously taken photographs of Hassan at other events arrested him, took him to a police station, interrogated him and repeatedly accused the cameraman of knowing in advance about the bomb attack and of lying in wait to get footage. "I told them to review my tapes, that it was clear I had arrived thirty or forty minutes after the blast. They told me I was a liar," says Hassan.
>From Baquba, Hassan says he was taken to the military base at Baghdad International Airport, held in a bathroom for two days, then flown hooded and bound to Tikrit. After two more days in another bathroom, he was loaded onto a five-truck convoy of de-tainees and shipped south to Abu Ghraib, a Saddam-built prison that now serves as the American military's main detention center and holds about 13,000 captives.
Once inside the sprawling prison, Hassan says, he was greeted by US soldiers who sang "Happy Birthday" to him through his tight plastic hood, stripped him naked and addressed him only as "Al Jazeera," "boy" or "bitch." He was forced to stand hooded, bound and naked for eleven hours in the bitter autumn night air; when he fell, soldiers kicked his legs to get him up again. In the morning, Hassan says, he was made to wear a dirty red jumpsuit that was covered with someone else's fresh vomit and interrogated by two Americans in civilian clothes. They made the usual accusations that Hassan and Al Jazeera were in cahoots with "terrorists."
While most Abu Ghraib prisoners are held in large barracks-like tents in open-air compounds surrounded by razor wire, Hassan says he was locked in a high-security isolation unit of tiny cells. Down the tier from him was an old woman who sobbed incessantly and a mentally deranged 13-year-old girl who would scream and shriek until the American guards released her into the hall, where she would run up and down; exhausted, she would eventually return to her cell voluntarily. Hassan says that all other prisoners in the unit, mostly men, were ordered to remain silent or risk being punished with denial of food, water and light.
Elsewhere in Abu Ghraib, Hassan's colleague Suheib Badr Darwish was also in lockup. He had been arrested in Samarra on November 18 and, according to a colleague of his at Al Jazeera, Darwish was badly beaten by US troops.....
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