Word: haitians
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Your report "A Constabulary of Thugs" was unbalanced, and it maligned the efforts of thousands of members of the Haitian National Police who toil daily under arduous circumstances in an effort to provide law enforcement in Haiti. I take responsibility for the actions of my subordinates and acknowledge that some HNP members have committed human-rights abuses, but the majority of these offenses have been identified through the investigative efforts of HNP officials. The HNP does not condone these acts, and we are addressing these very serious problems. I have approved the dismissal of 103 people from the force based...
...More than half of the children are first generation," says Myers. "Many of them are Haitian. We have some from the Carribean Islands, Trinidad, Ethiopia, El Salvador and two from the Barbados...
...enough when Jean Bernard Charles was shoved to the ground in handcuffs four months ago in Port-au-Prince and shot to death by four Haitian police officers for no apparent reason. But then his family complained that Haiti's U.S.-trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When...
...Last month a Human Rights Watch/Americas report offered a shocking account of indiscipline and incompetence among the 5,000-strong force. The report cited dozens of cases of beatings, torture and murder. It also highlighted the inadequate training the officers received, and drew attention to the failure of the Haitian government to prosecute rogue cops. "It's sad," a U.S. official told TIME. "Here's a force that we invested $65 million in, and from the same account, we're now using money to protect people from...
This is certainly not what the Clinton Administration had in mind in September 1994 when the U.S. military invaded Haiti to reinstate the country's first freely elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after Aristide's return, the U.S. created the first civilian police force in Haitian history. It was to be the cornerstone of Haiti's new democracy. With trustworthy police, U.S. officials predicted, Haiti could finally begin to deconstruct its dictatorship, reconstruct its economy and build from scratch all the judicial, political and civil institutions necessary for a working democracy...