Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...
...return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, TransAfrica director Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus and a snowballing number of Haitian diaspora members...