Wednesday, March 9, 2011

ARTICLE - 3 MEN KILLED PUTTING UP ELECTION POSTERS

THREE MEN FOUND DEAD IN HAITI AFTER PUTTING UP ELECTION POSTERS
(AFP)

Three men who were putting up posters in support of Haitian presidential candidate Mirlande Manigat have been found dead, their families announced yesterday after finding their mutilated bodies.

"My husband and two friends were taken away by police while they were putting up pictures of Mrs. Manigat not far from the presidential palace Saturday," Missindy Guillou, the wife of one of the victims, told AFP.

"We found their bodies in the morgue of the general hospital," she said.

A Haitian police official declined to comment on the allegations.

It was unclear if the victims were Manigat activists or simply getting paid to put up posters.

Manigat, who won the first round vote in November, will stand against popular singer Michel Martelly in the runoff of Haiti's deeply divisive presidential elections due on March 20.

The results to show who will replace President René Préval will not be known until April.

The first round was marred by unrest, which left five dead across the impoverished Caribbean nation, and plagued by allegations of vote-rigging.

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