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...ordinary Haitian people will feel the effects. "I'm afraid that experience has shown that sanctions applied to totalitarian military regimes invariably do result in suffering for ordinary people," remarked David Hannay, Britain's ambassador...
...said Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. The proposed sanctions would stop most trade and all travel to Haiti with the exception of regularly scheduled flights. In view of rising malnournishment and disease on the island, however, food and medicine shipments would be exempt. In addition, some 600 Haitian soldiers, policemen and their families would be barred from going abroad and their assets would be frozen worldwide...
...first casualty of the new Haiti policy, however, was not the Haitian military but Lawrence Pezzullo, Washington's special envoy to Haiti, who was forced to step down. After a year on the job, Pezzullo had come to symbolize the Clinton Administration's ambivalence toward the military leaders. In Port- au-Prince he had become so irrelevant that the Haitian army no longer bothered to show up for meetings with him. A frustrated Pezzullo admitted recently that the U.S. had been trapped into playing "rhetorical gymnastics with the military...
...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...