Commandant Michel Dieuseul
Near Port Au Prince, Haiti
April, 2004
I was sweating bullets when I approached Dieuseul and his band of cut throats
because we had interviewed people his group had kidnapped and held for
ransom. 27 people who couldn't come up with the money to pay their ransom
were forced into a big metal shipping container and shoved into the ocean to
drown. I was wearing a bullet resistant vest (no vest is bullet proof) even
though I knew it would not stop multiple M16 rounds.
"Is it all right if I take your picture," I asked of one of the soldiers. Soon
after, he walked back with the Commandant. It turned out, he didn't want to miss
out on having his picture taken.
