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Haiti: Breaking the news lockdown - Direct testimonies from the streets

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December 10, 2010 email to HLLN:
Ezili Dantà ²'s Note:
This next info came to HLLN via a Martelly supporters who is in Haiti and apparently was part of those involved in the events at the Champs Mars described above:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: A Martelly supporter
Date: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:51 PM

Hi, I'm currently in hiding as the government puts a bounty on my head. I barely escaped an attempt last night. I lost three soldiers in the battle. I can't leave my house. I'm forced to use my phone periodically as I have no energy in the house.

My people are mobilized and is ready to charge. We are keeping the whole country under siege until we get the real results. It is certified that martelly won. The president and his acolytes are avoiding judgment after they leave power. We will arrest and judge them for genocide, waste and abuse.

In some areas, it has been 72 hours since the combatants have eaten something.

Impossible to cross towns as the power in place has distributed guns to kill the population that has taken the streets. The UN is fighting us and the bandits of the government are doing the same.

We won't back down. Change is what we chose on election day. Change is what must come.

I don't know how long this will last but we are used to worse. Only the hospitals are operating. We closed the airports and the roads are blocked. Nothing else is open.

Please see how you can assist by adding minutes on my phone. I can then transfer some to the soldiers so that I keep the line of communications open during this fight. I think the grocery stores have a machine that does that.

Keep us in your prayers. This is revolution. When I get to leave, I do post some photos on my facebook

One love!
Sent from my BlackBerry - device from Digicel
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Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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