Haiti: Human rights violators must not have power

[Judi Lynn]

Haiti: Human rights violators must not have power
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 10:05 am
Press Release: Amnesty International


Haiti: Convicted human rights violators must not be allowed power
At least eight convicted or indicted human rights violators are currently at large in Haiti and must be brought before the justice system immediately, a new report by Amnesty International says.

Convicted human rights violators Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jean Pierre Baptiste ('Jean Tatoune') are currently leading the rebel forces circulating freely in Port-au-Prince. Amnesty International is extremely concerned that international forces present in Haiti have permitted rebel forces led by perpetrators of past abuses to effectively take control of part of the capital. The organization fears that they may join forces with former military and paramilitary colleagues who, until reportedly escaping from the National Penitentiary on Sunday, were being imprisoned on human rights grounds.

"The Multinational Interim Force must ensure that the safety of police and judicial officials, witnesses and human rights defenders who were involved in bringing these perpetrators to justice in the first place is guaranteed, as they are at risk of reprisal attacks," Amnesty International said.

Moreover, the organization repeated its calls for the exclusion of the two rebel leaders and any others involved in gross human rights violations from any position of authority in any new governing structure established in Haiti, and reminded the international community that any attempt to provide an amnesty for recent or past violations would be unacceptable and a violation of international human rights law.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00056.htm

[Just Me]

1. Human Rights inform,...you decide *EOM*

[tom_paine]

2. But...but...the Busheviks don't know anyone else BESIDES murderous thugs!

You are asking alot of the Imperial family. That they consort with people unlike themselves.

Like asking the mob to work with Mother Theresa. It ain't gonna happen.

The Busheviks like their Se=rfs afraid and oppressed. If not for being a heavily armed people and the desire of the Busheviks to seize the Empire as undamaged as possible, we would ALREADY be experiencing the Bushevik Paradise they are building in Imperial Freedomstan (formerly Iraq) and Haiti and Colombia and Venezuela.

Don't kid yourselves, we matter not a whit more to the Busheviks than the people they murdered or had murdered in numerous South and Central American countries.

If they thought they could get away with it, they'd Gulag or murder us all tomorrow, 1940s Mississippi-style.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Marines tighten security as Haiti rebel leader claims control

Marines tighten security as Haiti rebel leader claims control
By Phil Davison in Port-au-Prince
04 March 2004


A combat-ready convoy of about a hundred US Marines launched a sweep around the Haitian capital yesterday, taking up defensive positions, after gunfire broke out near the city's cathedral. The gunfire followed the first demonstration by supporters of the ousted president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, since he left the country on Sunday.

Local radio stations said some of the pro-Aristide group were armed and that others were roaming the city in military fatigues posing as soldiers. But witnesses said it was local police, now aligned with the victorious anti-Aristide rebels, who started the shooting. The marines, in their first sortie through the capital's back streets, raced to the scene in four Humvees and six armoured cars.

They stopped at a crossroads about 400 yards from the cathedral then ran from the vehicles and took up firing positions, some prone, some pressed against doorways. But they returned to their base at the presidential palace after about an hour, when the crowds at the cathedral dispersed.

James Foley, the United States ambassador, had earlier summoned the rebel leader Guy Philippe to his residence and reportedly told him to "cool it" after rebels began driving around Port-au-Prince in civilian vehicles. The rebels are increasingly at risk of being drawn into a gun battle. Mr Philippe later said his forces would lay down their arms.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=497628

[Just Me]

4. Wouldn't it be amazing if,...

,...our loyal Marines suffered a blow-back on account of right-wing corporate conspirators?

When do the right-wing corporate conspirators get a taste of their own medicine?

Soon,...I hope.

[Tinoire]

5. Yes Please Guy Philippe "cool it" you're embarrassing Bush

and all the people pretending that it was really the Haitian people who wanted Aristide out.