[Marxism] HAITI: Human Rights violations? Under US supervision?!

[Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Less than a month into office, Haiti's interim government faces growing
scrutiny over rights violations

Haïti-Info, 7 avril 2004

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Amnesty International raised concerns with
Haiti's new government about human rights violations, reprisals against
members of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government and the
criminal records of rebels whom the government has embraced as freedom
fighters.

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In recent weeks, at least a dozen former Aristide supporters have been
slain - most shot execution style with their hands tied behind their
back.

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Latortue praised the insurgents as "freedom fighters," honored a slain
gang leader and shared the stage with two convicted criminals during a
March ceremony in Gonaives, where rebels began their insurrection Feb.
5.

One of them was Louis Jodel-Chamblain, the rebel commander and former
leader of a paramilitary group in the 1990s accused of killing more than
2,000 people.

Jodel-Chamblain was convicted in absentia and sentenced to two life
prison terms for killing Aristide's justice minister and a chief
financier.

Chamblain remains commander of the rebels, who still hold sway over
international peacekeepers and police in northern Haiti. Troops from a
U.S.-led peacekeeping force and Haitian police consult with him to
ensure security.
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"The contrast between the Haitian government's eagerness to prosecute
former Aristide officials and its indifference to the abusive record of
certain rebel leaders could not be more stark," said Joanne Mariner,
deputy director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.

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Full:
http://www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=1893


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