Listen to an interview with Brian Concannon Jr. with the IJDH. The IJDH recently released a report detailing efforts in Haiti by the police and interim government to surpress grassroots movements around the upcoming presidential elections.
Produced for the CKUT (90.3FM) community news collective in Montreal by Aaron Lakoff. Contact aaron@resist.ca.
As Haiti draws closer and closer to its upcoming presidential elections, the Carribean country finds itself also amidst increasing turmoil. As human rights reports are continually indicating that the Police National d'Haiti (PNH), under the supervision of the United Nations (UN), are cracking down on political activists calling for the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, many throughout the country are also denouncing these elections as "selections, not elections".
Here, Brian Concannon Jr. of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) talks about this swell in violence surrounding the elections, Haiti's political prisoners, and the problematic role that many foreign NGO's are playing in the country.
For a copy of Concannon's report, visit: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8951
For more background on the situation: www.ijdh.org www.outofhaiti.ca www.ckut.ca
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