1991.- Massacre of Raboteau ( Raboto ), a shantytown in Gonaives:
We are two days away from the coup d'état on September 30. Soldiers of the Armed Forces
from Haiti invaded certain poor neighborhoods of the city of independence in the
purpose is to put an end to the demonstrations hostile to the perpetrators of the coup d'état.
massacre followed and that day was recorded:
Seven deaths, all of whom were mortally wounded by the bullets of
soldiers;
Seven also wounded by gunfire;
And more than 80 people victims of severe beatings.
Assassins spread terror during a second massacre, on 22 April 1994.