Back at the hotel, we heard the chimères had been ordered by the president, desperate to hold on to power, to target journalists as a way of forcing the international community to send in troops.

As Jean-Claude drove the vehicle up the steep incline to the hotel, he crossed himself and said another prayer. I called him our guardian angel and asked him to say a prayer for all of us.

Canadian Sue Montgomery and some of her collegues were attacked in Haiti.
She writes sparingly and powerfully of the terror and chaos of those moments.
The danger that local residents put themselves in to work with international journalists is humbling. They are well paid, but are more likely to pay with their own life.