- Title: HAITI - REMEMBERANCE CEREMONY HELD FOR VICTIMS OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.
- Date: 1st November 1994
- Summary: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (NOVEMBER 1, 1994) (RTV) 1. HAS,GV/SV/TRACK MAYOR EVANS PAUL ARRIVING AT CEMETERY SURROUNDED BY CROWD (3 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV/ZOOM-IN/SV EVANS SPEAKING THROUGH BULL-HORN TO CROWD (CREOLE) (3 SHOTS) 0.32 3. SV PANS CROWD/ EVANS SPEAKING (4 SHOTS) 0.56 3. HAS,SV WREATH BEING CARRIED TO PAUL TO BE PLACED ON GRAVE. 1.09 4. LAS,SV WOMAN PLACING LIT CANDLE ON CROSS OF GRAVE. (2 SHOTS) 1.17 5. HAS,GV VIEW OF CROWDED GRAVEYARD, PEOPLE SINGING 1.22 6. SV PREGNANT WOMAN AT CEMETERY 1.32 7. HAS,SV MAN PLACES FACE IN FIRE, REARS UP IN A TRANCE 1.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
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- Country: Haiti CARIBBEAN
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- Story Text: Hundreds of cheering Haitians mobbed Port-Au-Prince Mayor Evans Paul on Tuesday (November 1) as he attended a remembrance ceremony for the estimated 4,000 people killed during the military dictatorship at the city cemetery.
"We lay this wreath of flowers in memory of all the people whose names we know -- and all the people whose names we don't know -- who fell so democracy could flourish in Haiti," Paul shouted through a bullhorn as he stood on top of a five-foot blue tile-covered concrete crypt.
Human rights advocates and the U.S. military estimate 4,000 or more people died in the three years after a coup threw out President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who returned to power on October 15.
Paul told the crowd he had spoken with Aristide on Monday about the struggle to obtain jobs, education, health care and housing for the people and he asked them to be patient.
"We are unable to make changes yet but we are fighting so we can do it," Paul said.
Although international relief is starting to pour in, the national government has been slow to get organised.
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