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Today on Flashpoints: The US turns the keys to Haiti's killing fields back over to the killers; We'll have a report from Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina in Port-Au-Prince on revenge attacks against Aristide supporters and on the Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune; We'll also speak to Haitian activists across the country, and with Hazel Ross-Robinson, a close personal friend of the Aristides; and from New York City, the Knight Report.
01:10 The Knight Report: As Guy Philippe claims control of the police and the military in Haiti, President Aristide, from exile, says that he was the victim of the oldest police trick in the book - bad cop, evil cop. Gunfights and lootings continue while the US Marines stand by claiming their mandate does not include peace-keeping in streets controlled by the insurgents and 2,000 criminals released from the National Penitentiary in the "liberation" of the Capital. Aristide loyalists are being assassinated in the poor neighborhoods by death-squad and former FRAPH as Aristide remains under armed guard of French troops in the Central African Republic
...but the implied threat of progressive governments being destabilized under a new CIA template of privately funded armed opposition, along with international embargoes, followed by challenges to the electoral process, fomented violence, and forced presidential resignations or takeovers has had an effect in South Africa... in Zimbabwe... and in Venezuela - Robert Knight
We were misled about their plan to force out Aristide. I don't think any member of Congress can now trust what this Administration tells us. - Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek, CBC
05:55 Return To Murder: Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina and Brian Concannon of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux report from Port-Au-Prince. Kevin provides a summary of his interview with Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and describes the situation on the streets and in the poor neighborhoods where the insurgents drive through at will firing automatic weapons, terrorizing civilians and assassinating Aristide supporters. Brian provides the criminal backgrounds of the new police and military leaders and the restoration of convicted former murderers and coup participants, and the utter tragedy of 10 years of hard-won progress nurturing Democracy and the Rule of Law obliterated overnight with the release of criminals from the National Penitentiary. Both Brian and Kevin discuss the source of the new US-made M-16s and M-60s used by the insurgents which were almost certainly part of Pentagon-supplied shipments of 20,000 weapons to the Dominican Republic, and question the need for such an enormous number of weapons for a well-armed small force totalling 35,000 in all. More on Bay Area Indymedia and the Haiti Action Network
33:15 Musical Break
34:40 Activist Roundtable: Dennis leads a discussion of the crisis in Haiti with Jean Kurzan, host of Family Lavalas radio show on Radio Soleil in NY, Alina Sixto, Grassroots Haitian activist and member of the pro-Aristide Lavalas party, and Nicole Lee, Human Rights attorney and Managing Director of Global Justice and steering committee member for the Let Haiti Live project. In this segment - an open letter to President Bush, the record of humanitarian projects under Aristide's Presidency, and a call to action against the policies which have led to the removal of the democratically-elected President of Haiti this chaos and lawlessness. Demand that President Aristide be allowed to address the UN; March from 11AM to 6PM on Saturday March 6 on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn to Grand Army Plaza; Mobilization to protest the Bush Administration's intervention of Haiti's democracy, 11AM Lafayette Park, Washington DC
55:20 Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance announces an upcoming lecture by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti at the King Middle School on Rose St. in Berkeley at 7PM on Sunday March 7, 2004.
