Talk:St. Jean Bosco massacre
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[edit]"Aristide was being escorted through the courtyard to the church and his youths positioned themselves to guard the gate, hundreds of young thugs with knives and machetes marched down Grand Rue toward their intended victims, some were even picked up by city hall trucks of Mayor Franck Romain and transported to John Bosco. As attackers pelted the church with stones, Aristide led the congregation within in prayer and singing. The Church was also surrounded at this time by army soldiers and police who ostensibly had come to arrest Aristide but they did not intervene in the siege for several hours. Aristide's supporters tried in vain to fight back at the gates but the attackers opened fire with machine guns and rushed the gates. A group of assailants got gasoline from a nearby gas station and set the church on fire. The attackers broke down the church doors and made their way through the congregation, shooting and slashing their way towards the altar. Aristide's body guards backed Aristide through the sacristy into the inner courtyard, to the safety of the residence building. The Papal Nuncio was watching as the church burned to the ground and refused to make an appearance that would have surely brought an end to the slaughter. Finally the army and police entered the residence and searched for arms caches and found none."(Block 1990)
Move to talk. This should be replaced by a summary of the eyewitness description here (p42). It's not that the above is an inaccurate summary, but our own summary of the original eyewitness would be better. Rd232 talk 11:32, 20 August 2010 (UTC)