Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haitian police and army have been formally defanged, the more shadowy tentacles of the junta remain, the notorious "attaches." They will not retreat until the military government no longer has power. And disarming them will be a difficult task; their weapons are not held in armories but in private homes around the country...
...does succeed in completing the transition and forcing the Junta's departure, the bulk of the forces should leave and the United Nations transitional team should fill the gap. At that point, the U.S. will have done what it can-it will have given Haiti another chance at democracy. And just a chance. The job of marking it work will and must remain with the people and leaders of Haiti...
...operation, many found the manner and the content of the deal that had forestalled an invasion distasteful. To get out of a jam, the current President had lent his authority to a failed former President. The terms of Jimmy Carter's arrangement to remove Haiti's brutal junta were so much less than Clinton had promised only days before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that had left more...
Almost immediately the loud and public reappraisals began. Why were the junta members being allowed to remain in Haiti? Why had Francois, who is blamed for police attacks on Aristide supporters in the first days of last week, not participated in the negotiations? Why did the agreement provide for a "general amnesty" and speak of "honorable retirement" for dictators and U.S. military cooperation with the Haitian armed forces? None of that sounded like the clean sweep of the monsters that Clinton had promised just a few days before...
...defense, Administration officials offered two basic arguments: the great virtue of a bloodless landing in Haiti outweighs the other details of the agreement, and now that U.S. troops are ashore in overwhelming force, they can make the unpalatable details irrelevant. In the view of U.S. officials, after the junta members leave office they will decide to go abroad, no matter what they say now. When Aristide is running the country and foreign troops are everywhere, in this view, the generals will find it unhealthy to remain. Says an American official in Port-au-Prince: "Somebody's going to kill ((Cedras...