UN soldiers shoot into a crowd of mourners for Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a long time opponent of the UN-installed provisional government in Haiti:
All this happened in the run up to the senate elections in Haiti, for which all candidates of the Fanmi Lavalas were barred from standing. Fanmi Lavalas is the party led by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was ousted as president in 2004 by the UN backed coup against him. It is of course a popular leftwing party and if there’s one thing that cannot be tolerated in Haiti it is a popular leftwing party. As in Iran, ordinary people have been protesting in the streets against the unfair and dishonest elections, boycotting them in large numbers. As in Iran, people have been shot at. Unlike Iran, they’ve been shot at by UN troops and unlike Iran, this went largely unreported. The difference is that Iran is our official enemy, while what happens in Haiti (and Honduras) is happening with our blessing.
(I’ve linked to Peter Hallward’s article on the 2004 Haiti coup before, but it’s still the best overview of what happened, why it happened and why it’s important I’ve found.)