Policeman Killed by Friendly Fire
Lacked a radio to tell his partners where he was. Incident indicates that they are barely hanging on and cannot by themselves fend off gangs armed with high-caliber weapons
Les bandits ne connaîtrons pas la paix
““Tant que je serai commissaire du gouvernement, les bandits ne connaîtrons pas la paix.” So says Jean Ernest Muscadin in Nippes. This prosecutor is not waiting for the foreign force to come
Elegy for the Fallen Police
By Dr. Frantz Large, valued participant in the Haiti Democracy Project’s 2009 conference for a Strategy of National Salvation. “Ce soir notre cœur se serre pour la disparition au Champ d’honneur des agents de la PNH . . .Ce soir, des épouses se retrouvent sans mari, et leurs pauvres mains chercheront en vain sous les couvertures un corps désormais rigide et froid. Ce soir de petites mains attendent en vain un père”
Police Attacked in Their Homes
De nombreux policiers ont fui leurs domiciles pour échapper à la colère des bandits. Les bandits ont incendié des résidences et entreprises appartenant à des policiers
Can the Police Cope Without Foreign Help? y/n
Le Nouvelliste, Haiti’s oldest newspaper founded in 1891, asked its readers
Seven More Police Killed
They were killed defending a police station in the Artibonite on January 25 as 150 gang members stormed it