Administration Actions and Political Murders in Haiti, Vol. 2 PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781330983652
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Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Excerpt from Administration Actions and Political Murders in Haiti, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, September 27, 1996 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:44 a.m., in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, the Honorable Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman of the committee, presiding. Chairman Gilman. The Committee on International Relations will come to order. Two years ago this week, 20,000 American troops left their homes for Haiti to restore constitutional order and to throw out a regime that was murdering its political opponents. Since then the Clinton administration has spent more than $2 billion to support a government that has tolerated thugs who murder its political opponents. I supported the resolution of the constitutional order in Haiti. That support was betrayed by the Administration when it kept Congress in the dark about political murders by the very government we returned to power. Many of those murders were committed in 1995, while our troops were still in Haiti as peacekeepers. Our government has information linking these killings to members of Haiti's Presidential Security Unit, which was trained by our own government. One of the most shocking murders was the March 28, 1995 shooting in broad daylight of Mirielle Bertin, a prominent opponent of then President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Two dozen FBI agents were deployed to Haiti to help investigate that shooting, but by August 1995, our embassy had concluded that the Aristide Government was stonewalling the FBI. Even as the FBI was packing up to leave Haiti in frustration, an Administration official told our Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of this committee on October 12th that the investigation was continuing. And within a few days, the last FBI agent had left Haiti in frustration. The Administration has been aware since early 1995 that death squads were operating under the direction of top security aids to President Aristide. The Administration privately pressed Aristide to dismiss suspected assassins in his security unit, but he refused to do so, although some were dismissed by President Rene Preval after he took office in February 1996. Their violence got out of hand just last month. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.