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Dissenting Workers Attacked In Business-Led Haiti Strike

HeadlineJan 11, 2006

In Haiti, business leaders carried through with a planned strike to pressure the UN to crackdown on poor neighborhoods. Police say nearly 2,000 kidnappings have occurred in Haiti in the last ten months. The business community blames the abductions on supporters of Lavalas, the party of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Street vendor Jeanne Martineau told Reuters: “I think they observed the strike just because they are targets for kidnappings and not because they care for the poor masses.” Reuters is reporting there were several attacks on residents trying to get to work in an apparent attempt to persuade dissenters to observe the strike.

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