European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 r the stars and stripes Haiti a saturday september 24, 1994 by Lio Ger Jensen Scripps Howard news Servicev has been said before and will be said again with greater vehemence if american boys Start dying in Haiti. ". The Man on whose behalf we launched operation uphold democracy is not a ? there Are two sides to Jean Bertrand Aristide the leftist priest who became Haiti s first freely elected president Only to reanalysis toppled by his army the dark Side. Forget for a moment that Aristide was expelled from the Salesman order of monks for inciting hat and just look at his political record when he stacked Haiti with cronies from his lavalas movement appointed justices for the haitian supreme court without approval from the nation Senate fired democratically elected mayors and incited his followers to Lay siege to 1991 j the new York times characterized Aristide As an insular and menacing Leader who saw his own raw popularity As a substitute for the give and take of , you say of Here is Aristide in his own words. \ on the haitian Lynching method of neck lacing a victim with a burning tire in a 1991 speech broadcast from the National Palace what a Nice tool. What a Nice instrument. It is elegant attractive Graceful and dazzling. I smells Good wherever you go you feel like smelling on Justice 1988sermon a Machete is useful in almost any on democracy 1990 Campaign slogan revolution not on the pop and the Catholic Church Sermon who is this Man he is Aristi Dethe chief executive of a multinational corporation. His Job is to ensure efficiency continuity and profit while maintaining the status from a Sermon the Catholic Church cooperated totally with slavery and exploitation. The priests were the real colonialists. Their guilt and complicity extends into the 20th another Sermon the Vatican stands in the front rank among those countries that made every Effort to retard our return to democratic on the United states 1987 letter to the the . Government has no right to stick its nose into haitian elections. The .government is blameworthy because it supports an army that inspires fear and murders from a Sermon the americans want to hold our guts always in their from Aristide s autobiography the United states must make amends for the wrongs inflicted onus. The debt experts when they speak of our liabilities need to add up the second column of their own on socialism economic liberalism which democrats and technocrats have made a Panacea i find intolerable.". Of course we All shoot our Mouths off at times an later regret what we said. Those who promote Aristide s Good Side say he regrets much of what he said before he began his comfortable exile in Washington and is now a pro american Democrat. Amy Wilentz author of the Rainy season Haiti since Duvalier paints the picture of a changed Man who has tempered his ferocity toned Down his leftist rhetoric and preaches reconciliation with those who threw him out of office. Aristide has in fact made deals with the International monetary fund and the world Bank institutions he previously despised. He has thanked the Clinton administration a Little too late for the likes of certain congressmen for All it has done to get him reinstated. And he promises to step Dow when his presidential term ends in 1996. So who is the real Aristide Only time will Tell if the fiery demagogue has changed his spots forces guarded optimism a Young girl watches with other haitians outside the port in port a Prince on thursday As . Soldiers stand guard. The port area has been secured by . Troops As part of peacekeeping efforts. For the most part . Troops have been greeted by cheering crowds of haitians hopeful of restoring democracy. From Page 1 were going to clean it up. As his men began scooping up the refuse into a Large Green truck for dumping outside the City Gowans watched in disbelief at what he saw. Men and women in the crowd quickly urinated on the piles one last time before the trash could be removed. Children ran through the can you feel anything about these people go wans asked. They made this mess and now we be got to clean it up. We can help them but we can t do it All and they be got to help themselves and i Don t know iftheycan.". " " throughout the City marines and Cap Hai teens were trying to learn to live with one another As Hoyer Landing Craft and uh-60 Black Hawk helicopters continued to arrive in this third world hades. Gawker remained but Many residents were growing restless not so much Over seeing so Many marines As hearing them. How much longer yelled one Man his Gray shirt dark with sweat his breath heavy with the smell of bad rum. How much longer do we have to hear that he yelled pointing to the cobra helicopters chop chopping overhead. At the Marine compound on the seaport rear adm. William h. Wright in said a Force of 1,300 marines sup ported by 130 armoured vehicles will remain in Cap Hai Tien until the weekend. They will be replaced he added by 5,000 army soldiers from the 10th inf Mountain div. The soldiers Are to perform peacekeeping duties As the . Military settles is running the amphibious Marine Landing Here. Wednesday afternoon he served As Host to army it. h. Shelton the Overall . Commander in Haiti and . Ambassador William l. Swing. . Forces in Haiti pass 10,000 in strength Washington a there ,than 10,000 . Military personnel on the ground in Haiti and 1,000 . Military police defense Secretary William Perry said Friday. Meanwhile Pentagon officials said the chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil planned to travel to Haiti today to inspect the . Operation there. It has gone very smoothly Perry said at photo session in his office with japanese foreign minister Yohei Kono. The entry of troops is right on schedule. Behave More than 10,000 troops now on the ground in Haiti and about 1,000 military haitian exiles ready to follow Aristide Guantanamo Bay naval Bash Cuba a Many of the haitian refugees Here Are ready to Fol Low their ousted president Back Home a . Refuge official said. Most of them want to see Aristide Back said ral Gruenert a representative of the . High commissioner for refugees at Guantanamo Bay referring to exiled haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. If there Are indications that Aristide is going Back then Many of them will go Back Gruenert haitians picked up at sea As they tried to flee to the United states stopped in their tracks thursday to listen to loudspeakers blaring the latest news in Creole about the . Military intervention in Haiti. The . Occupation is intended to restore the democratically elected Aristide and oust the military Junta led by it. Gen. Raoul Cedras. But having heard How police beat up haitians after the arrival of american soldiers in port a Prince refugees Are also concerned about their safety if they re turn. Some Are wary about returning even if Aristide is Back in Power. They feel that if they go the same thing will happen to them said one of the refugees Jean Alcimbert. The roughly 15,000 refugees live in rectangular can Vas troop tents pitched in rows on hard packed dirt. Portable toilets set among them reek in the relentless tropical Sun. Mesius Dervil said he fled Haiti for his military tried to kill me said Dervil who worked for the world health organization. I can t Goback to Haiti even if the country becomes Safe Dervil doubts he Llever return. I have no House no Garden no nothing in Haiti Hend. So if i go Back How will i make it said
