3 dead, 30 hurt in Haitian protests
NZPA-Reuter Cap Haitien, Haiti Three people, including two children, were killed by Haitian troops or militiamen yesterday after the country’s biggest demonsration against the President-for-Life, Mr Jean-Claude Duvalier, on Monday. More than 30 other people were hurt, mostly after being clubbed by troops or militia. Residents stuck to a seif imposed curfew during the evening after news spread that a tailor, aged 50, had been killed in a burst of machine-gun fire that ripped through his house. Two boys died in
hospital yesterday from bullet wounds. Men, women and children, chanting “a bas Duvalier” (down with Duvalier), threw stones at security forces and blocked roads yesterday in the second day of protests in Cap Haitien, Haiti’s second-largest town after the capital, Port-au-Prince. The troops and blueshirted militiamen known as the “Tontons Macoutes” toured the narrow streets in jeeps, jumping out, bursting into shops or homes and clubbing youths they suspected of having demonstrated earlier.
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Press, 29 January 1986, Page 10
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1613 dead, 30 hurt in Haitian protests Press, 29 January 1986, Page 10
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