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Haiti: Senate Elections

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 @ 14:59 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Haiti
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Law, Photography, Religion, Politics
Languages:: English

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Haïti : Elections sénatoriales...

Alice Smeets posts a series of photographs of Haiti's senatorial elections this past weekend, while My Life, an Open Book… says: “It turned out to be a terrible election…not because people were killed, but because the voice of the people was not heard.”

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