Jamaican slum dwellers angry at troops after raid: "Security forces with M-16s and rotating machine guns at the ready on Sunday patrolled a hostile slum in Jamaica's capital where angry defenders of a fugitive underworld boss complained of unprovoked attacks and the deaths of innocents.
Nearly a week after security forces started a deadly four-day assault in search of reputed drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, residents of the Tivoli Gardens slum, nicknamed the 'wild, wild West,' were trying to live their lives amid concertina wire and military checkpoints.
Children played on trash-strewn streets, as mostly older women headed to church in their Sunday best past soldiers and police in camouflage fatigues. The scent of marijuana mixed with the stench of urine and rotting garbage.
Slum dwellers across the bullet-pocked complex voiced rage and frustration at having to live alongside security forces who they see as an occupying army and accuse of killing innocent people during the fighting. They insist the death toll is higher than the official tally of 73."
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Jamaican slum dwellers angry at troops after raid
Tuesday, 1 June 2010Posted by blogzone at 11:08
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