Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total of 44,000 personnel participated in operation "Agile Provider" on Great Inagua. This number seems large enough to deal singlehandedly with whatever opposition the splintered and disorganized Haitian military could mount. The number is also significantly greater than any proposed scale of U.S. involvement in Bosnia. It looks like another fabled "surgical strike" is in the works...
...while, the Haitian military has been tightening its hold on the country. Since February, international observers have chronicled a "systematic" attempt by the army and its paramilitary cohort, the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, to terrorize Aristide supporters. In the 31 months since his overthrow, about 3,000 are said to have been killed; over the past three months, the observers documented 157 suspicious deaths and 16 abductions as well as illegal detentions at secret torture centers. In Gonaives alone, the Catholic Church's Peace and Justice Commission reported 7,300 arbitrary arrests last year. Bribes...
...aspect of Clinton's Haiti policy that has not changed is insistence on the immediate repatriation of Haitian boat people. The President waived the policy last month to allow some 400 refugees ashore in Florida because of "humanitarian concerns," including allegations of abuse. But later, 113 others were turned back...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...
After months of turmoil over U.S. policy in Haiti, Lawrence Pezzullo, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, was forced to resign.The Administration has come under increasing fire for its unsuccessful policy, enduring public protests by members of Congress and harsh criticism from the deposed Haitian President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide...