Everyone has driven by its frontier on the Route National I at some point. Others, like Base I observers, have reason to make that turn down the main road which leads to the police station on the wharf - a paved road, brick houses on either side, bustling with commercial activity.
Initial appearances can be deceptive.
There are some stories, however, which will never be told in these reports. Like that of Jesula, for instance. Her two children are not with her - one is in Les Cayes, the other has been in hospital since birth. Out shopping in the market, she received gunshot blasts in both legs, apparently from indiscriminate shooting by the police. Observers first came across her that same morning at the General Hospital, a pathetic figure on a bed bathed in blood and crying out in agony.