Aristide also said this about necklacing which Desmond Tutu condemned in S. Africa during the anti- apartheid struggle.
"What a beautiful tool. What a beautiful instrument. What a beautiful device. It is pretty. It looks sharp. It is fashionable. It smells good. And wherever you go, you want to smell it."
`A few days after delivering that speech, a mob of Aristide's supporters attacked Sylvio Claude, a Baptist minister, two-time Presidential candidate in Haiti and the head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party. Sylvio Claude had been jailed and tortured under the Duvalier dictatorship. He sought refuge in a police station but he was thrown to the mob which beat him to death and burned and mutilated his corpse.
`Also, 3 months earlier, Father Aristide told another mob that, and I quote:
`"The people have their little matches in their hand. They have their little gasoline not far away. Does the constitution tell the people they have the right to forget necklacing? No, you will learn to write necklacing. You will learn to think necklacing. You will learn to use it when you must."
From From: Tim Starr (timstarr at my-deja.com) Subject: Re: No to US/UK/AUS intervention in East Timor Newsgroups: alt.fan.noam-chomsky View: Complete Thread (223 articles) | Original Format Date: 1999/10/08