Reed Lindsay
Independent International Reporter

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Reed Lindsay’s groundbreaking video reports for the new Latin American network Telesur are available on-line in English… y en español. Lindsay says of this work:

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Black-Clad Hooded Police and Machete-Wielding Civilians Murder Dozens
 
Massacre Fuels Fears of State-Sponsored Violence as Crucial Elections Approach
 
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The crowd applauded when camouflaged and black-clad hooded police officers entered a packed soccer match held less than two weeks ago in the hillside slum of Martissant.

The spectators inside the walled dirt field assumed the officers had arrived to provide security. The “Play for Peace” soccer match was financed and sponsored by USAID, and was to help lay the groundwork for disarmament by steering young people away from gang violence.

The events that followed were as chilling as they were unexpected.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Cinder block and sheet metal houses were still in flames and pools of blood had not dried around midday on Saturday hours after Haitian police had led a major operation to root out gang members in the poor neighborhood of Bel Air in coordination with United Nations peacekeepers.

Residents of Bel Air, a stronghold of support for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, said police entered the neighborhood around 9am, shooting into alleyways, knocking down doors, and dousing houses with gasoline before setting them on fire. At least six houses were still burning and smoldering early Saturday afternoon.

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ELIM, South Africa – The white pick-up truck rattles to a halt at a round mud and thatch hut cemented with cow dung.

Princess Cele, a stout woman wearing sunglasses, a dark blue beret and a mint green epaulet-adorned uniform, motions her head to a mound of dirt outside the hut.

“She’s dead,” says Cele, who is making her daily rounds as a nurse for nearby South Coast Hospice.

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