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...days after addressing the United Nations General Assembly last week, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide sat down in his New York hotel room with TIME's Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. In his first interview in print since the U.S. went into Haiti, the returning leader talked candidly about Haitian justice, the U.S. role in his country and his hopes for the future...
Aristide: The focal point of the entire operation is the disarmament of the Haitian paramilitary and the neutralization and reformation of the Haitian army. The entire success of the mission is linked to the process of disarmament, because if the forces that have reigned over the past three violent years are not neutralized, we will have little to build on. I certainly hope that what we saw beginning with the disarming of FRAPH headquarters is continued. The Americans have taken out some of the perpetrators of the tragedy, but not all, not yet. We must encourage our partners to help...
Aristide: First, we must not sit and dwell on the sins that have been committed against us until we become angry and want vengeance. No. Vengeance is a trap. If the Haitian people exact vengeance for our sorrows, we will be stepping once again into the trap in which we've been caught for so long...
...have died. The anonymous victims must be remembered along with the better known ones because they too died so that the country can live. Some have died in all innocence, but others, like Jean-Marie, have chosen to lose their lives for the nation. I myself and the Haitian people must feed ourselves at the source of his courage...
When I was in Israel, I had a chance to visit a museum that commemorates the Holocaust. The point it makes is "Never again." Never again seems to me to be the most important lesson Haitian children can learn. We must transcend the past without drowning ourselves in forgetfulness or vengeance or impunity. I want to erect monuments to our martyrs and perhaps establish a museum like...