2002. Impressive student march in Port-au-Prince:
On strike for several days, the students of the state university wanted, by
this demonstration, show their opposition to the authorities in place, obtain the
withdrawal of the dissolution of the elected Council of the university in July and, thus reaffirm
the autonomy of the university.
2018. Massacre at the Saline:
La Saline, a popular district of the capital known for its great poverty and
protest tradition, as part of a series of new mobilizations and
strikes against the high cost of living and against corruption arose. Armed gangs
burst in and were for several hours during the murder of seventy-three
people, raping. eleven women.
The police, despite being alerted, did not intervene. The international media are having to
Hardly spoken. Years later, Haitians continue to demand justice.