Tag: Samba Boukman

by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery For several weeks, armed groups of young Black men, presumably Haitian and too young to be veterans of the Haitian...

Portraying community and political activists as violent gang leaders and violent criminals was employed in the run-up to Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s ouster in 2004 and gained momentum in the years afterwards. The continued demonization of militants and activists is exemplified in the defamation campaign against grassroots activist Samba Boukman.