Haiti We Must Kill the Bandits

Blood literally runs in the streets through the chronicle of Feb 2004s forced ouster of Haitis elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide and the terror of its citizens that followed Aristide and his Lavalas political party were democratically elected in 2000 by Haitis poor majority The film shows thousands of Aristide supporters gathered to celebrate his inauguration he promised political and social change better education food and health care for the masses But not everyone was in favor of change Haitis business community and intelligentsia worked against Aristide from the very beginning And they wouldnt accept it seems that a poor mans vote is worth as much as a rich mans Internationally most mainstream media reported only negatively on Aristide At his ouster they gave the impression that Aristide fled to South Africa out of concern for his safety