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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- HIV-positive Haitians Rebel at Guantanamo
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- By G. Dunkel
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- The U.S. has captured over 37,000 Haitians trying to flee their
- homeland since the brutal military coup over 11 months ago.
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- Many have wound up at the Guantanamo Naval Base. There are now
- 293 HIV-positive Haitians and their families held in detention at
- the base. Only three HIV-positive Haitians, all seriously ill and
- in grave need of hospital care, have been let into the U.S. The
- others have satisfied all the onerous requirements for asylum but
- can't be admitted because U.S. laws bar the entry of all
- HIV-positive individuals.
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- For months, they have had no access to phones, letters, family,
- lawyers, independent doctors or journalists. They have had blood
- drawn against their will. They've been handcuffed and left in the
- broiling sun for hours. Protests have been brutally repressed
- with beatings and dogs. In a smuggled letter, they said, "[we]
- are living in conditions where a dog couldn't live because it
- would have died of misery."
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- Their anger overflowed Aug. 31. They rebelled, burning 12
- of the sheds used to house them. It took a week before news of
- this incident reached any news media.
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- Reports from Haiti indicate there is still solid popular support
- for the embargo imposed on Haiti in reaction to the coup. Poor
- and working people are suffering tremendously but feel "It's not
- just a question of democracy in Haiti. It's a question of
- democracy for the world," according to the Haitian Information
- Bureau.
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- In July, according to reports of survivors who are just now
- surfacing, the Haitian military shot up a boatload of people
- fleeing Haiti, killing at least 30 and probably many more. A
- number of refugees returned by the U.S. have been arrested on
- arrival in Port-au-Prince.
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- A coalition of Haitian groups is calling for a demonstration in
- front of the White House on Sept. 9 "to show your outrage toward
- Bush's racist refugee policy." It is sponsored by TransAfrica,
- NAACP and the Coalition of Haitian Organizations.
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- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
- if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
- St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)
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