Haiti - Protesters wounded by gunfire Fort-Liberté
According to news reports this protest was for Electricity... While trying to clear roadblocks, police fired their weapons.
For the past few days people in Fort-Liberté have been demanding that the town be supplied with electricity from the Caracol power plant.
Senator Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aime, one of the group of 6 opposition senators against president Michel Martelly, said that 16 people were wounded. Police has not yet confirmed the number.
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People should protest peacefully, and the authorities should allow people to express themselves.
Haiti is a democratic state and therefore, should abide to democratic rules.
If the police goes so far as to fire in the crowd and people get killed, a commission of inquiry should be established in order to find out the cause of the killing and the
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