Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interested in disciplining the vigilante groups than in curbing the thugs. A distraught 19-year-old Haitian woman told the San Francisco Examiner that one day before the election soldiers swept Carrefour-Feuilles, a hillside slum south of the capital, rounding up alleged vigilantes. At the Fort Dimanche military prison, she charged, men in uniform shot and bayoneted to death 46 of her cellmates. The woman claimed that only she and two other women were spared. Namphy's government denied the report, but human-rights groups are urging Amnesty International to investigate...
...nation's history, and its nonviolent ending was a tribute to the tenacity of federal negotiators. Day after day they put the safety of the 89 hostages above any impatience in dealing with the balky, shifting factions of 1,100 Cuban detainees who had seized control of the prison. Not a single hostage was injured, and when the ordeal finally came to an end at 1 a.m. last Friday, an unusual scene occurred. As the released prison guards began rushing out of the prison, many stopped to embrace their inmate captors. Each group wished the other well. Then the hostages...
Five days earlier a parallel siege ended at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La., where 998 Cuban detainees held 26 prison employees. Standing in the back of a pickup truck, Miami's Cuban-born Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman was driven slowly past the center's wire fences. "My brothers, give me your weapons," pleaded the frail Roman Catholic clergyman. "Give me the hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said...
Although authorities had massed overwhelming firepower to use if the Cubans began harming hostages at either facility, their best weapons proved to be mediators trusted by the Cubans, who worked with federal officials in tedious, often frustrating negotiations. In the Atlanta prison, the Cubans voted to accept a two-page, eight-point pact. When some 200 hard-liners still rejected the deal as inadequate, the majority needed "all of our effort and all of our force," as one detainee put it, to overcome their resistance. Approved in advance by Attorney General Edwin Meese, the agreement will apply...
...Jung ran strongly, but narrowly lost the last presidential election in 1971. He spent much of the following 16 years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, and was even threatened with execution in 1980. The charismatic firebrand boldly asserted at his rally last week, "I, Kim Dae Jung, have already won the election." But it was the more moderate Kim Young Sam who last month scored the campaign's biggest coup. While declaring that "the call of history is to put a final end to military government," he won the support of several past military leaders, including former...