SOS received this afternoon at 2:43, Dec. 9, 2010 via email.
Apparently, in the streets of Port-au-Prince right now , in order to past, you must be wearing a Sweet Micky T-Shirt. Certain elements are putting on Sweet Mickey T-Shirts in order to kill his partisans and scatter their protests. HLLN on the ground confirms this. So this SOS makes sense.
Here's the SOS, in French original:
"Des partisans inites portent des maillots de micky...Ils battent et tirent sur les vrais partisans de micky Des armes et. De l'argent sont distribues now au stade sylviocator Des blesses et morts (partisans micky) victime d'inites sont abandonnes a l'hopital general. Il n'y a pas de medecin. Faire passer a la presse pr qu'on fasse appel a medecin sans frontiere pr qu'aille a leur aide. C'est une information sure."
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English translation:
"INITE supporters are wearing Sweet Micky T-Shirts" They are beating and shooting the real supporters of Micky. And are armed and. Money is being distributed now at the Sylvio Cator stadium. The wounded and dead (Micky supporters), victims of insider dealing, have been abandoned at the (State-run) general hospital. There is no doctor. Get this news out to the press. We must call on Doctors Without Borders to come to their aid. This information is sure."
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Urgent information on the current situation in Haiti: Direct testimony from the streets of Haiti obtained by HLLN
The world is being purposely misinformed and mis-educated about the current election disaster in Haiti. Yesterday the Haiti electoral council said they would do a recount. It's clear from reading the latest State Department Bulletin Op-ed, published in the New York Times, that the US and its international partners set up this Haiti explosion and will come in with military boots to put back order, as per usual! No change. Two wings of the macoutes will go to a run-off on January 16: Martelly and Magnigat. It's very simple, not so complex but it's up to those who can see to guide and educate. To that end, we publish the following testimonies. The irony is that even the folks being manipulated don't know they are being manipulated. Many of the starving and desperate young Haiti men, in the streets of Haiti, right now, asking that Martelly be made president as a result of an exclusive, blatantly fraudulent, not fair, not free election, believe that would be CHANGE! and REVOLUTION! Right now the long-suffering neocolonial subjects getting the most press from Haiti are those who have reduced revolution in Haiti to: "anything is better than Preval or Celestin."
HLLN was told last night there is a US warship at the Port au Prince harbor since Tuesday, December 7, the day the 's'election results were announced. We've also been apprised that there are "cholera drops" - some think its not cholera medical air drops, but US military. That info is not confirmed. Yesterday we got an SOS asking for help for wounded Martelly supporters who we were told were being denied medical help at the General hospital. We circulated that SOS. This additional report on the incident came to HLLN today, Dec. 10, 2010, via email from an HLLN collaborator.
Events in Haiti on December 9, 2010 on the Champ de Mars, according to a trusted source:
"You know that we had the election on November 28th. It was a mess that day in some polling centers in and outside Port-au-Prince. In some neighborhoods close to Cite Soleil or in Tabarre the process for vote for some of them did not start and for others they were forced to stop for many reasons: people got upset because they did not find their name on the list sticks on the wall outside of the vote centers or people went inside with gun to intimidate the persons working inside and for several other reasons. In the countryside it was even worst.
So everyone was waiting for the results on December 7th. Early in the afternoon people was rushed to go back home as the Electoral Council announced the results for 6:30 pm. I was in Petion Ville and I have seen people running on the streets because close to the big street market (not too far from where you stayed the first time), they were throwing stones and bottles and even burning tires at some corners. So it was panic. This day after 5 o'clock the streets were completely empty. I left Petion Ville by 7 pm and I've met only policemen who were blocking the area where the Council was about to deliver the results.
Around 8:30pm the results were out and people did not take too much time to react. Very fast many streets in PAP were blocked with everything they could find (big stones, tires, bricks, pieces of wood, pipes made in cement for drainage, cars, big garbage dump...) That night they even broke some stores in Petion Ville. I was not at home and I had to wait 1 am to drive back home when those people went to sleep.
Since then everything is closed in Haiti (Schools, businesses, stores even no vendors on the streets) Supporters of Martelly are demonstrating with big posters everywhere. Some groups are calm but others are very violent. Today, they even assaulted a young female journalist who was working on a motorbike with a driver.
(This is what) happened on the Champ de Mars. I was not in PA, I was in Carrefour when I heard about it. Some people wearing Celestin's t shirt were demonstrating on the Champs de Mars by 1 pm. (wearing Celestin's t-shirt don't mean anything to me cause anyone can do it, anyone who wants an explosion in Haiti - it could be Celestin or anyone else) So they were around 50 according to witnesses. They had a car and a few motorbikes with them. As they were singing, dancing and walking on the streets some people on the champs de Mars started to yell "Micky, Micky" (Martelly's artist name) and one of the bikers got a bottle on his head. So he stopped his motorbyke and walked towards those people. He took his gun and shooted people just like , from one block of LePlaza and two blocks from the main police station of PAP. They talked about three to five people were killed and many injured. The closes health care facilities is the General Hospital. Dr Alix Lassegue ( who you met ) talked on radio to say that the hospital can still provide health to people sick or people injured, of course everything is not ok as usual because of the situation of the street but he needed help this afternoon because the X Ray lab is not working and the people injured needed X Ray in emergency.
Many things are happening now. Rumors say that the Senator Lambert went to Cite Soleil today (December 10, 2010) and made big distribution of guns and bullets and very soon people from Cite soleil will come to PAP to face supporters of Martelly. That's the reasons why I left Carrefour fast because people were afraid and they were blocking again all the streets to avoid confrontation. So we don't know what tomorrow will bring to us.
For two days now I've heard that two war battleships from the States are in the Bay but I do not have any confirmation of this. What I know is that on Wednesday afternoon Preval had problem at his home. The protesters were in front of his house and he felt unsafe. The house was under seige and he had to ask the Minustah to come and help him move from his house. (HLLN note: see photo of crowd in front of Preval's house on HLLN's website.)
A new day just started, we don't know how it will be. Our very fragile Economy does not allow us to lose many days. Many vendors from the marginal sector live day by day and they are certainly suffering from this situation. In the country actually many clinics, hospitals, CTCs, UTCs have no more medical supplies. It is obvious that we will have a pic of death of cholera during those days. I am working with an orphanage in Jacmel and the person in charge called me this morning to tell me that five kids ( 4 boys and 1 girl ) died yesterday because of cholera. She needs to come to PAP to get supplies but the highway is blocked. So what will be the end of this, only God knows."
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