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Haitian Journalist Killed

HeadlineApr 18, 2007

In news from a Haiti, a journalist working for the New York-based paper Haite Progres has been murdered. Johnson Edouard was shot to death in his bed in the city of Gonaives. Edouard had close ties to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s political party Lavalas. Lavalas leaders have called the killing a political execution. According to Reporters Without Borders, Edouard is the second Haitian journalist to be killed this year.

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