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Preval And Celestin's INITE Party Headquarters Set On Fire!

Demonstrators in Haiti have set fire to the headquarters of Haiti's ruling party today. Rene Preval and Jude Celestin's INITE (Unity) party headquarters has been burned down!

We first learned about this early this morning when a visitor posted on our message board "They set fire to headquarters of current President Preval. Please verify the news."

We asked for a link to confirm to news... but we didn't look into it because at the time since there was so much going on... We monitoring Haitian radio to see if the news would come in.

By 3pm this afternoon, it was all over the international news media.

RTT News reports...

"Protesters enraged by the result of the recently concluded presidential elections in Haiti have set fire to the headquarters of the ruling INITE party in capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, according to local reports."

BBC News say...

"Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Port-au-Prince, accusing the ruling party of rigging the vote in favour of its candidate, Jude Celestin...

...Demonstrators have set fire to the headquarters of Haiti's ruling party, amid large-scale protests against the results of presidential elections"

All day there have been reports that protestors were around burning government buildings. Then suddenly there was a report that the mob was heading in an area of the capital that had the radio host wondering and asking his street reporters if there were any government offices in that area...

I guess they were heading to the INITE party headquarters!

Hmmmm... Se gro koze!

What do you think about what happened?

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Wismi says...

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Zanmi Haiti says...

an nou fe lape pou nou k jwenn solusyon ak tout problem ayiti yo rezilta se pa mete dife ni kraze biznis moun .mwen panse li tap pi bon si nou menn kap panse ta mete tet ansanm pou nou kapab fe sa nou an mezi, menm si se nan zon ou ye a.
an nou aprann kreye
pou ayiti ka demare kote l paking

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Love Your Country says...

people like you don't think stupid why would you want them to burn Preval and Celestin, this why Haiti lost it respect fram other is because people like you who come to the United States and forget where you come fram.The building that they burn down is not for Preval and Celestin it is for the haitian look at your self think befor you say something

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Haitian Man says...

This election is clearly exposed as fraud.

The people knows it, Preval admitted it and the international community witnessed it. But I don't aggree with the burning of political party's property.

We, as a nation, need to learn to resolve our issues in a civil manner.

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Vladimir says...

pep Ayisyen pa konn sa yo vle.
sa selman m ka

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Charles Amicy says...

They know very clearly what to do in order to satisty the Haitian people.

Preval and Jude have nobody beside their friends and some family members with them. As I said before the haitian people are tired with them and are ready for change.

The people know very well that they didn't vote jude. I do believe that if they want to stop all the demonstrations they have to respect the will of the haitian people.

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Garry Destin says...

Just don't give preval the chance to leave the country nor to live at all. If he gets away this time, celestin also

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Fedeline Louis says...

yo di yo remen payi ya pou kisa yo pa bay vag si pa intere pa yo yap defan se pou yo bay vag. kote sa prale

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Lena says...

i wish ancy derose was a life because he always sing for our situaton i never understand what he mean when he sing now i see respect ancy rest in peace and i also say good nite to yole derose and her family i am so so tired give love to dadou andre pasquet all are good leader in their

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Ericka says...

bon, men sak te rete a

next thing that gets burn will either be preval, or celestin.

i'm just saying

the peple are trying to say they mean

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