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Item
Title
Dead blue man
Date(s)
- November 1987 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1949-)
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The body of a man sits in the alcove of a home along a well-traveled path in Carrefour, a poor neighborhood on the southern edge of Port-au-Prince, in November 1987, a few days before Haiti’s first democratic presidential elections in 30 years. All-night shooting sessions went on for several weeks prior to the elections. The unidentified killers displayed the corpse to warn people of their fate, if they voted in the elections. When election day arrived, the polls opened and closed in one hour after many people were massacred at polling stations. Elections were cancelled.