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8591: The Aristide presidency: the Terror challenge (fwd)
From: Jraphaelg@aol.com
Human rights/ The Aristide presidency
THE TERROR CHALLENGE : WHAT DID THE CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVE, IN
HAITI, IN OCTOBER 1994 ?
By the Haitian-American League for Human Rights
While Colin Powell, the first African-American to become secretary of
stateâ??is doing everything he can to keep the peace process moving forwardâ??
in the Middle East, Haiti is gasping for its last breath. Last month, Mr.
Arrested stunned nation. He went to the national police headquarters and
said(on t.v) to the policemenâ?? from now on when you arrest a thief kill him.
Since then across the country Aristideâ??s supporters keep burning people
alive. The Haitian-American League for Human Rights denounces this kind of
his behavior as a subversion of the basics of democracy
In his ON WAR, Written more than one hundred years ago, the wise Prussian Karl
Von Clausewitz wrote â??no one starts a war or rather no one in his senses
should do so without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve
by that war and how he intends to achieve itâ??. Mistake number one in Haiti
which led to Clausewitzâ??s rule number two. â?? political leaders must set a
warâ??s objectives while armies achieve themâ??â??
In October 1994, when former president Bill Clinton and his people used
taxpayer
fund- $ 4 billion- and twenty thousand troops to â??RESTORE DEMOCRACYâ?? IN
Haiti what was in fact their purpose? What was the state of their minds?
What do they
intend to achieve?
History will respond!
However as a human rights organization we have to take issue with them on the
sorry
state of the US foreign policy toward Haiti. The people of Haiti are not
better off than
twenty years ago- no electricity, no clean water, no adequate sanitation
facilities- Mr.
Clinton and his friends have only created a permanent under-class of pauper
people see
king hands out at the beginning of the twenty first century
THE ILLEGAL ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF EX-PRESIDENT PROSPER
AVRIL
The country belongs to 4 percent of Haitians. Those in power in the name of
restoring
democracy are an Island of new millionaires in a vast sea of despair,
despotism, and
cynical opposition. What the hell kind of leaders does Haiti have?
How can they talk about peace and democracy when the country had become a save
heaven for drug traffickers who have the power to name their own judges,
whereas
political leaders are still in exile?
The recent arrest and imprisonment of ex-president Prosper Avril- although a
ruling
of the Appeal court, Mr. Avril is still in jail!- member of the Democratic
Convergence
signifies a major defeat for the rule of law
A BIN LADEN COMPLEX
It makes our blood boil to think that the LAVALAS REGIME has a BIN LADEN COM
PLEX. Its leaders cannot operate out of their TERROR NETWORK
Is there an â??homme serieuxâ?? in both the literal and broader senses among
those in power
who pretend to want peace, to â?? negotiateâ??? Had it has not been the reading
of Nelson
Mandelaâ??s LONG WALK TO FREEDOM we would have lost faith in the STRUGGLE
When we look into the facts nothing in his past seemed to show that Mister de
KLERK
would change South Africa one day in â??one sweeping actionâ??. Remember as
education minister he had tried to keep black students out of white
universities. Astonishingly
on August 1989, two days after he sworn in as acting president in his
inaugural address
de Klerk said his government was committed to peace and that it would
negotiate with
any other group committed to peace
>From jail, Nelson Mandela wrote him a letter and asked a meeting. Mandela
started
meeting with a secret negotiating committee- only in Haiti negotiation is not
secret
headed by Gerrit Viljoen, a brilliant mind with a doctorate in classics. His
role?
bring the discussion into a constitutional framework
What did Nelson Mandela do? he pressed the government to show evidence of
its good faith by releasing political prisoners at Pools Moor and Robben
Island
While he promised the committee that the government could expect discipline
behavior from them, they had to be released unconditionally
The prisoners were released five days later . â?? It was, wrote Nelson Mandela,
an
action that rightly evoked praise here and abroad and I conveyed my
appreciation
to mister de Klerk. Then- after his ten thousand days of imprisonment-
Mandela
added â??to make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy and that
enemy becomes oneâ??s partnerâ??
Neither mister Aristideâ??s Lavalas party nor his network terror can have such
greatness
If you think Prosper Avril can write Jean Bertrand Aristide requesting a
meeting...
then meet with him in his palace urging him to release political prisoners to
display
evidence of his good intention you are a fool !!!
TWO FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGES
Arrested himself is a prisoner. We have learned from Mandela â?? A man who
takes
away another manâ??s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the
bars of
prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away
someone
elseâ??s freedom just as surely I am not free when my freedom is taken from me.
The
oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanityâ??
America is a nation dedicated to the rule of law; as a practical matter, this
means that
it is a nation ruled, effectively, by lawyers. It is becoming a country obses
sed with
due process, virtually, to the exclusion of expeditiously applied justice
Two fundamental challenges remain in the fight against the LAVALAS REGIMEâ??s
TERROR NETWORK. one is to ascertain, what its links might be with
sophisticated
international sponsors of violence such as the dangerous Colombian drug
Lords. The
other is to prevail on the protectors of The Aristideâ??s Lavalas Party on THE
HILL in
order to remind Americans and the rest of the world that terrorists like any
other cri
minals, may be caught, tried, and punished for their crimes
The United States of America wonâ??t win the war on drug if they donâ??t help
to bring
integrity to the Haitian criminal-justice system. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
may 29,2001-had it right. â?? For people connected with the
Clinton-presidency-cum
political machine to attach themselves like pilot fish to the bleeding ruin
of Haiti under
Jean Bertrand Aristide, in the wake of an enormous commitment of American
prestige
and money on behalf of Haitiâ??s people, doesnâ??t survive any conceivable smell
testâ??
How could this happen here at this place- right in the back yard of America -
one man
only one man, set up his own parliament and uses the judicial system to
intimidate and
arrest his political and economic opponents?
humanrights@lihadh.com
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