While U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Haiti's national palace under U.N. protection, a special police unit called into the national penitentiary slaughtered rebelling prisoners.  Not just those who had broken free of their cells were shot-- police took other prisoners from their cells and executed them, prisoners at the time and other witnesses told Reed Lindsay.

George Salzman's highlighting that "the corporate media is not providing you with real coverage in Haiti" (see the above comment) is nearly 100 percent accurate.  There is one person being published in the corporate media who is providing real coverage: Reed Lindsay, who (we are always quick to brag) is a Narco News J-school graduate and professor.

"Reed Lindsay is the only journalist to get into the Port-au-Prince prison since a riot three weeks ago," the Observer writes above the article, published Sunday, December 19.

According to official reports, prisoners in a three-storey cell block called 'Titanic' had rioted, breaking free from their cells, setting fire to mattresses and brandishing water pipes as weapons. Prison guards called in a special police unit to help put down the uprising, and officials later said that seven prisoners had been killed and more than 40 detainees and guards wounded during the fracas.

But according to prisoners and others interviewed by The Observer, this is a woeful understatement. The government, they say, is concealing a savage bloodbath in which dozens of detainees were killed by police and guards.

Please, read the whole article.