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- Subject: Is Haiti next Target for Intervention?
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- Is Haiti next target for intervention?
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- By G. Dunkel
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- Haiti and Somalia are separated by over 8,000 miles and connected
- by some of the deepest poverty that exists in the world today.
- They are also connected by similar threats from Washington
- policymakers of U.S. military intervention.
-
- While all the bigshots and media lords on the Sunday talk shows
- and in the special sections of the Sunday newspapers were
- promising "our troops'' would be home soon from Somalia, and
- swearing up and down that "our'' motives were lofty and strictly
- humanitarian, around the edges you could hear mention of other
- concerns and similar situations.
-
- The New York Times mentioned the Sudan, Liberia and Haiti as
- countries where the "humanitarian" concerns of the United States
- might be focused. It also mentioned Afghanistan, Cambodia,
- Yugoslavia, and the Cameroons as potential trouble spots worthy
- of consideration.
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- Jim Bush, a retired captain from the U.S. Navy now with the
- Center for Strategic Studies, spoke on the Canadian Broadcasting
- Corporation's Sunday morning show. He raised Haiti as a pressing
- U.S. concern, since it shares an island with the Dominican
- Republic and that island lies between Cuba and Puerto Rico.
-
- Haiti is the hot spot closest to the United States, the one
- where U.S. power is the most deeply entrenched. In Haiti, popular
- challenges to the brutal military dictators now running the
- country with the United States' covert blessing could potentially
- attract powerful and widespread support in the African and
- Caribbean American communities. The United States is also the
- country where most Haitian refugees seek to go.
-
- STRUGGLE IN HAITI CONTINUES
-
- Over a year since a military coup overthrew the first
- democratically elected government of Haiti, the struggle is still
- not over. The de facto government still doesn't have
- international recognition; it is facing a costly and worrisome
- embargo that could be strengthened at any shift in the
- international political situation. It knows it couldn't win any
- election that would have even a semblance of fairness.
-
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide might have been deposed from the official
- seat of power but he is still president in the hearts and minds
- of the Haitian people.
-
- The popular resistance hasn't flagged, even though over 2,000
- people have been killed for such crimes as pasting up a leaflet
- calling for the unconditional return of President Jean-Bertrand
- Aristide. The army has surrounded two college buildings in
- Port-au-Prince, the capital, in an attempt to physically crush
- the student resistance. As of Dec. 8, the outcome of the army's
- operation was still unclear.
-
- Most international observers make their headquarters in the
- capital. Outside, the repression has been even more ferocious.
- The regime set loose hundreds of unpaid, assistant policemen to
- make their living through extortion and corruption.
-
- FREE ANTOINE AUGUSTIN
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- Near Rival, a community in the north of Haiti near Cap-Haitien,
- Antoine Augustin, a leader of the National Popular Assembly (APN)
- who was on the staff of Aristide's government was arrested by the
- army Dec. 5.
-
- The Committee Against Repression in Haiti is calling for the
- release of Augustin, who has committed no crime and who has not
- even been charged with any by the authorities. They are asking
- for telegrams to be sent to Gen. Raoul Cedras, Grand Quarter
- General, Port-au-Prince or Moise Senatus, Justice Minister. For
- more information, please contact Maude Leblanc (718) 434-8100.
-
- In addition, the Tet Ansanm Organization of New York, New Jersey
- and Connecticut has called a demonstration Dec. 16 for people to
- assemble 3:00 p.m. at 42nd St & 7th Avenue in Manhattan. The date
- marks the second anniversary of Aristide's election.
-
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