a990: RE: a979: Re: a768: Can anyone offer some corroboration? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Joel Dreyfuss <jdreyfuss@attglobal.net>

I have heard there were some former Tontons Macoutes and former army
officers in the new National Police, but it's very misleading to imply
they made up a majority of the force that was being trained -- they were
not. Kelly is a guy with a lot of integrity who would not have gone to
Haiti to train a new repressive force.

Also, a significant number of Haitian-Americans, members of HALEFO
(Haitian-Americans in Law Enforcement Organization, I believe)
participated in the training; these were people who are police officers,
detectives, federal marshals, correction officers, etc. and they were
mostly pro-Aristide and very hopeful about the future of the country.
I've talked to some of the men in recent years and they all said they
were pulled out of Haiti too soon and would welcome another chance to
help train a Haitian police force. We have to remember that Haitians
hardly need to be trained to behave badly. A lot of what we hear about
now in Haiti is not very different from what a lot of Macoutes and
military did in the Duvalier years.

Joel Dreyfuss
jdreyfuss@attglobal.net
212-932-1448

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Subject: a979: Re: a768: Can anyone offer some corroboration? (fwd)



From: Krista White <librisia@earthlink.net>

Is there anyone on the list who can suggest sources to investigate the
following claim that appeared in an article in a768?


"Bloomberg's
police commissioner, Ray Kelly, was head of the
International Police Monitors in 1994 that trained the
Tonton Macoutes and the ex-army officers for the Haitian National
Police."

I find this very interesting, if it is true, in light of the overturns
today in the Luima case.  (I am not suggesting they are directly
connected legally)

Krista White
--
"Let me listen to me
  and not to them."
 - Gertrude Stein