The World - News from Aug. 17, 1988
Haitian troops fired without warning on a group of youths meeting in a provincial town, killing at least four people and wounding an unknown number, radio reports in Port-au-Prince said. Independent Radio Metropole said that about 30 soldiers opened fire on an estimated 350 members of an organization dedicated to political action among peasants and improving literacy in the region. The attack in Labadie, about 80 miles north of Port-au-Prince in the Artibonite River valley, was the worst reported assault by security forces on civilians since the army seized power in the impoverished Caribbean nation June 19.
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