Word: bertrande
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...getting tough with Haiti. The Security Council gave the Caribbean nation's military junta just one week to allow democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return from exile to the office from which it ousted him in 1991. If the army fails to reinstate Aristide, Haiti will face severe international sanctions, including a freeze on its overseas assets and an embargo of oil and weapons shipments. A proposal for a naval blockade, however, failed...
...solution to Haiti's miseries lies in compromise, Jean-Bertrand Aristide has now gone at least half the distance separating him and his adversaries. In a radio address taped from exile in Washington, the Caribbean nation's first democratically elected President reiterated an offer of political amnesty to the army commanders who deposed him 18 months ago. In return for such a pardon, Aristide demanded reinstatement as President and pleaded with the military to "suspend your killing...
Tablers provided a sample letter for students that contained paragraphs asking not only for the for the release of the 264 Haitians, but also for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide to power and the end of the policy of intercepting and returning Haitians who are trying to come...
...fleeing Haitians are economic refugees, and therefore unworthy of political asylum. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to distinguish between the two in a country where people are routinely punished for real or suspected political sympathies. Since a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, Amnesty International has documented thousands of beatings, detentions, tortures, "disappearances" and deaths in Haiti...
...their hopes on a political settlement that will make Haitians want to stay home. For the first time since last February, diplomats are finding signs of life in the talks the U.N. and the Organization of American States are sponsoring in an effort to restore democracy and reinstate Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected President who was ousted in a September 1991 coup...