Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haitians, such abuses under the nose of the Americans who had come to rescue them were a shocking dose of the treatment they have endured ever since the 1991 coup forced Aristide from power. As the U.S. soldiers watched and did nothing, Haitian onlookers became increasingly perplexed and hostile. "I know you guys are working hard," shouted one man to troops sitting on a wall. "But people here are suffering." The inaction only heightened the suspicion of collusion. "How could the United States be so stupid?" another demanded. "For months you call these men thugs, murderers, thieves and drug dealers...
Among the Haitian military men who have been brusquely muscled to the sidelines, many now bear the added insult of sharing their accommodations with U.S. soldiers. On Friday, while Haitian troopers played dominoes on one end of their balcony at the capital's general quarters, G.I.s on the other end snoozed in the afternoon heat. "How do I feel?" asked a member of the Haitian high command. "That's a delicate question." He glanced away for a long time, then simply looked back at his guest. The silence underscored his humiliation...
Given the bloodshed predicted, Haiti proved to be a remarkable triumph last week. It is even possible that the deal may stick when the muscle behind it is withdrawn. So why does Bill Clinton's Haitian success have that insistent scent of failure about it? Was it only the stumbling way in which war was avoided? Or the spectacle of a former President in the lair of "thugs," declaring them to be men of honor and denouncing his own country's policy as shameful? It's tempting to focus on Jimmy Carter. We don't encounter him much these days...
...Haitian junta reluctantly agreed to the arrival of U.S. forces, who asserted control over the Caribbean island's military and police. American troops were initially forced to watch uncomfortably as Haitian police savagely beat civilians -- at least one of them to death -- but they were later given permission to use force to prevent such violence. On Saturday, Marines killed eight Haitian men in a firefight outside a police station in Cap Haitien. The U.S. soldiers, who numbered 12,000 at week's end, also disabled many of the heavy weapons of the Haitian army. But army commander Lieut. General Raoul...
...using it. In Clinton's world, intellectual effort is too often directed at blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim of a public that fears change, a cynical post-Watergate nation or the fractionated, post-cold war world. What happens now that U.S. marines have drawn Haitian blood? If the Haiti policy doesn't go well, the Administration will revert to the story it had already begun retailing on "deep background" before the deal was even struck. In that scenario Jimmy Carter exceeded his brief from the start. If the President rejected Carter's deal, the former...