DEMONSTRATORS GATHER IN SORROW AND IN ANGER MAN WHO SET HIMSELF ABLAZE HONORED AS 'MARTYR'; PROTESTORS DECRY US MILITARY AID TO HAITI

The Boston Globe | September 5, 1987| | Copyright

A few feet from the spot where Haitian national Antoine Thurel set himself afire Monday, demonstrators, educators and community leaders stood outside the State House yesterday and demanded an end to US support for Haiti's military government.

They also came in memory of Thurel, a 56-year-old cab driver from Mattapan who doused himself with gasoline on the State House steps and set himself on fire, leaving behind a handwritten sign stating that he had offered himself "in holocaust for the complete liberation of my country."

"For Mr. Thurel, a martyr and exile from Haiti, there was a ...

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