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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 10:15 PM
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Haiti urged to arrest 'Baby Doc' amid unrest fears (National Post)
Joseph Guyler Delva and Allyn Gaestel, Reuters · Monday, Jan. 17, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rights groups demanded on Monday that Haiti arrest former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity after his surprise return from 25 years in exile, which strained an edgy political atmosphere in the volatile Caribbean state.

Analysts said the arrival in Port-au-Prince on Sunday of “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who fled his homeland in 1986 to escape a popular revolt, could only complicate the climate of nervous uncertainty in earthquake-battered Haiti ....

“Duvalier’s return to Haiti should be for one purpose only: to face justice,” Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said Duvalier, 59, should be brought to trial for the killings and torture of thousands of opponents at the hands of the thuggish Tonton Macoutes militia during his 15 years in power ...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Haiti+urged+arrest+Baby+amid+unrest+fears/4122439/story.html
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 11:05 PM
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1. So he wants to be present for Haiti's "rebirth." Fantastic. How unbearably evil.
Apparently he has decided there's some small part of Haiti he hasn't bled dry, yet.

Hearing this monster would even imagine going back to Haiti is shocking.

The powers that be must have decided that there is so much unrest in Haiti now after the endless train of disasters and poor people driven beyond endurance that they should bring in a monster again who will terrorize them all into utter terrified submission so the elite can reseize the reigns of power.

Recommend. Thank you.
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