Haiti: How News of Alleged Assault Spread

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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Posted 6 September 2011 15 years ago

mediahacker explains how he obtained the video of “the apparent assault by Uruguayan UN troops on Johnny Jean. The answer is simple: The video is circulating on cell phones in Port Salut.”

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