Amanda Coletta
@a_coletta
Correspondent covering Canada and the Caribbean, WaPo. RTs ≠ endorsements.
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20-05-2011 04:10:11
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6yr old Hind Rajab's emergency call from Gaza drew global calls for investigation of her death. IDF deny they were there. The Washington Post finds:
- IDF vehicles present.
- Gunfire as girls begged for help + damage to ambulance = consistent w/ IDF weapons.
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The main instrument of violence in #Haiti today is firearms, often of military style. When gangs here go shopping, the US is their gun store, as Amanda Coletta puts it. Stability is unlikely, a sociologist says, until the US works harder to curb arms smuggling
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New: US prosecutors expected to file a new indictment against Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who allegedly conspired with an Indian official to assassinate Sikh separatist Pannun, sources say
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Remose Clerbrun has mixed feelings. The 46-year-old housekeeper in #Haiti has 3 kids and is overwhelmed by “extreme anxieties.” “I’m skeptical” that the forces will be effective, she told The Post. “But I hope they do help. We need that”. Me & Amanda Coletta
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In the end, he was sentenced to a year in prison. By then, he’d been held for more than nine Amanda Coletta and Widlore Mérancourt report washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/…
Working on this piece was tough. This poor man spent nine years in prison without seeing a judge. He was sentenced to just one. His crime? He fought with another man and bit his ear. I was emotional when the judge freed him. / Amanda Coletta
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More than 83 percent of people in Haiti's prisons are in pretrial detention -- often for longer than the maximum sentences they'd get if convicted. Here's one man's story, w/ Widlore Mérancourt washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/…
Graduation marks a time of celebration. But for St. Demetrius’s 33 refugees – in a class of 56 – the excitement is mixed with worry about leaving a public school that has become a haven, and anxiety about when it will be safe to reunite with their families theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…