Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citizens carried signs stating, "Haiti Deserves Democracy" and "We Are All God's Children," and bore photos of deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. They spoke earnestly to the councillors about the importance of standing behind international justice and democracy, and joined together in a chorus of "Hallelujah," a popular Haitian rallying song...
...Haitian-American Gerdes Fleurant, a Cambridge resident and professor at Salem State College, told the councillors that "the Haitian people are fed up. They want peace. They want democracy...
According to Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian-American who teaches at Kennedy Elementary School, 3000 Haitians, many of them civilians, have been killed since the military seized control of Haiti's government last week...
After listening to the speeches and song, the councillors unanimously passed an order stating that "the City Council [offers] its strongest support to the Haitian people both in Haiti and here in the United States in their ongoing struggle for democracy in their homeland...
...Haitian-Americans "are asking for international outrage," Reeves said...