• gressen@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Police in Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with drones. What is this bullshit avoiding attribution to actually responsible people?

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Well, its called burying the lede:

      (End of the article)

      Since August of 2025, Blackwater founder and prominent Donald Trump donor Erik Prince has helped deploy hundreds of private mercenaries to Haiti, Al Jazeera has reported. In addition to supplying personnel, Prince has acted as a key advisor to the drone assassination task force responsible for the devastation, which has drawn condemnations from human rights groups for suspected violations of international law.

      Blackwater is a private military company responsible for the Nisour Square Massacre in Iraq, a shooting which left 17 civilians dead. (The four contractors responsible were pardoned by Trump during his first stint in the Oval Office.)

      Evidently, Prince is now exporting that same carnage to Haiti — this time with drones — furthering a history of heavy-handed US meddling in the affairs of the beleaguered Caribbean nation.

      Surprise!

      Somehow, Blackwater returned.

      But uh yeah burying the lede is what you do when you’re a coward, journalist style.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      If you’re gonna get all bent out of shape about it then why attribute to police when they don’t have volition in the matter: “Haiti has killed more than 1000 people with police drones”