Remembering Roche
July 29, 2005
Ever since Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed last year, violence has wracked the country. At least 600 people have died at the hands of armed gangs in the past year, and in recent months, random kidnappings have been common. Most end with a ransom payment, but not in the case of the popular Haitian journalist and poet, Jacques Roche. Michael Kavanagh reports from Port-au-Prince that outrage over Roche's death has calmed the spasms of violence in the capital - at least for now.
