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Editorial: Ditching the rule of law, for what?
Bernal,
Predatory power
Jackson,
Looking ahead --- and above
Sirias,
Pacifying the gatekeepers
Leis,
Neither censorship nor violence
Kim,
Mom
Weisbrot,
Why Washington cares about countries like Haiti and Honduras
Obama,
State of the Union address
McDonnell,
GOP response to the State of the Union address
Reporters
Without Borders, US marines censor Haitian photojournalist
Human Rights Watch, The successors to
Colombia's AUC paramilitary
Amnesty International, Recommendations to the
new Honduran government
Weeks,
Ecuador's trials with democracy
Haperskij,
Europe and Cuba
Fillion-Robin,
Harper and Canadian parliamentary democracy
Hursthouse
& Ayuso, ¿Cambio? The Obama administration in Latin
America
Carlsen,
Isacson, Smith & Barry, Obama and the Americas
Letters
to the editor
US
military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer
by
Reporters Without Borders
Three
weeks after the earthquake, the Haitian press has just had its first
serious run-in with the US military. Homère Cardichon, a
photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste, had his camera
confiscated by US marines while covering a February 3 demonstration
by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince
suburb of Tabarre.
We
urge culture and communications minister Marie-Laurence
Jocelyn-Lassègue to demand an explanation from the US
military
authorities.
“Six
marines come up and surrounded me,” Cardichon told us.
“Then they
took my camera in my opened work bag and left with it. An hour later,
one of them came back and photographed me. Then he returned my camera
to me. I saw that the soldiers had erased some of the photos.”
There
is growing discontent in Port-au-Prince with the countries involved
in the humanitarian relief effort, including the United States. In
this case, the US soldiers reacted in the worst possible manner in an
attempt to protect their image. Aside from being a flagrant act of
censorship, it has done further harm to their reputation in the eyes
of the Haitian population. The government has a right to expect an
explanation from the US military and to hope that such an incident
will not recur.
News
and information is vital for reconstruction in Haiti and for the
efforts of its citizens to start rebuilding their lives. As regards
the news media, it is time for Haiti’s own journalists to be
playing a leading role again.
Also in this
section:
Editorial: Ditching the rule of law, for what?
Bernal,
Predatory power
Jackson,
Looking ahead --- and above
Sirias,
Pacifying the gatekeepers
Leis,
Neither censorship nor violence
Kim,
Mom
Weisbrot,
Why Washington cares about countries like Haiti and Honduras
Obama,
State of the Union address
McDonnell,
GOP response to the State of the Union address
Reporters
Without Borders, US marines censor Haitian photojournalist
Human Rights Watch, The successors to
Colombia's AUC paramilitary
Amnesty International, Recommendations to the
new Honduran government
Weeks,
Ecuador's trials with democracy
Haperskij,
Europe and Cuba
Fillion-Robin,
Harper and Canadian parliamentary democracy
Hursthouse
& Ayuso, ¿Cambio? The Obama administration in Latin
America
Carlsen,
Isacson, Smith & Barry, Obama and the Americas
Letters
to the editor
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