The World - News from July 29, 1987

Rioting erupted in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid mounting criticism of the government’s failure to avert a massacre last week in Jean-Rabel, 140 miles northwest of the capital, that left at least 100 dead and hundreds wounded. Troops in the capital fired tear gas at several hundred demonstrators who threw stones, shouted anti-government slogans and set up barricades. Protesters shouted that troops were in league with the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, a disbanded militia that once terrorized opponents of departed dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. The Tontons Macoutes were accused of being in league with landowners in the Jean-Rabel massacre of peasants seeking land reform.