19541: Sylvain: A Denial of Justice for Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: patrick sylvain <sylvaipa@hotmail.com>

A Denial of Justice for Haiti.

Too many times and too many corrupt leaders were allowed to flee persecution
with millions of looted dollars and extra judicial killings.  The “only” wrong
done by the international community in this recent saga, is allowing Aristide
to leave office with over 800 million dollars and the extra judicial killings,
kidnappings, extortions that His private sergeant, Rene Civil and Jean-Claude
Jean-Baptiste (just to name a few) were involved in.  Do not forget, in 1990
and based on Aristide deposition in front of parliament in 1991, possessed only
one car 3 small plot of land, 2 houses and 204,111.49 Gourdes. Remember how had
taken a vow of poverty and had rejected the presidential monthly salary of
G50,000. By 1996, Aristide's fortune was estimated at $300,000,00 and 2003 at
0ver $800,000,000. So, how can one explain the fortune amassed in about ten
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The Basic truth is not that Aristide fled because of fear, but because of a
drug dossier presented by the Americans and their two options: Leave as a
president (patriotic gesture) or leave as a prisoner. And after hours of
dealings and a threat by his private security and later by Danny Toussaint he
made it to airport (two trips//the plane was due to take at 12:30am; Aristide
claimed he forgotten something important and returned to the Palais where he
claimed that would remained in the country and that’s when his security had
threatened arrest).  I hope Ira Kurzban can help in shedding some lights in the
drug dossier that the State Department had brought forth, and that Ira, along
with Leslie Voltaire, help in negotiating Aristide’s departure.

Aristide’s arrest along with his crooks would have been the best gift to Haiti.

Now, Haiti is left in a worse economic and health shape. With several banks and
pharmacies looted, especially the Central bank, one has to ponder on the impact
such an act is going to have on the economy and the records of ownership. The
main computers were either stolen or trashed. Again, this is the result of
Aristide’s divisive rule and hateful speeches. In less than four days, in
economic costs, the Chimères managed to destroy more than in the 1986
dechoukaj. The 1986 dechoukaj was bloodier and targeted the selected homes of
the hard core Duvalieristes.

Once again, I’m hoping we will be able to pull ourselves by the flimsy
bootstraps and revived our dying country.