The Damage Done: Canada and the Coup

Montreal-based photographer Darren Ell has a dossier of photos, audio, and videos documenting the consequences of the Canada-supported 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti at the National Film Board’s site Citizenshift.org.

See the dossier at: http://citizenshift.org/damage-done-canada-and-coup-haiti

Haiti’s National Penitentiary

During his 2005 trip to Haiti, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin declared, “There are no political prisoners in Haiti.” In fact there were over 700, including the Prime Minister of Haiti, Yvon Neptune, and many prominent political, cultural and community leaders. Mr. Neptune was put in jail because of alleged links to a phony massacre concocted by a Canadian-funded human rights organization, the NCHR. The National Penitentiary is dramatically overcrowded. In early 2007, a story broke about serious problems of malnutrition among prisoners, with large numbers of men developing crippling beriberi.