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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...
Councillor Edward N. Cyr also spoke out strongly for the initiative supporting the Haitian people. "There are those who say that an issue such as this one doesn't have a place in Cambridge City Hall," he said. "To those who say these issues belong elsewhere, I say nonsense, these issues belong everywhere...
...Cambridge City Council has a long history of involvement in Haitian affairs...