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> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:22:58 -0500
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> Subject: * Aristide "Abducted"? * Perspectives on U.S. Role in Haiti
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> * Aristide "Abducted"?
> * Perspectives on U.S. Role in Haiti
>
> Some news outlets have reported that Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned
> his democratically elected presidency in Haiti on Sunday. But TransAfrica
> Forum founder Randall Robinson told CNN during an interview Monday
> afternoon that he'd received a phone call from Aristide -- and the Haitian
> leader said that he was "abducted by 20 American soldiers."
>
> BILL FLETCHER, bfletcher at transafricaforum.org, http://www.transafricaforum.org
> Fletcher is president of TransAfrica Forum.
>
> LAURA FLYNN, LMFlynn1234 at aol.com, http://www.haitiaction.net
> A former assistant to President Aristide from 1996 to 2000, Flynn is now
> with the Haiti Action Committee.
>
> MARAGARITE LAURENT, erzilidanto at aol.com
> Laurent is founder and chair of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network.
>
> ADAM HOCHSCHILD, ahochschild at mcimail.com
> Hochschild has written about imperialism and colonialism in "King Leopold's
> Ghost," "The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey" and other books.
> His next book deals, in part, with the Haitian Revolution. He said today:
> "You can't understand Haiti today without understanding the long, bloody
> struggle in which that country gained its independence 200 years ago this
> year. It was the most extraordinary and least heralded upheaval of the Age
> of Revolutions: rebel slaves defeated first the French, then the British,
> then a new attempt to re-enslave them by Napoleon. But in their ordeal lies
> some of the seeds of the country's problems today."
>
> EUGENIA CHARLES-MATHURIN, eugenia at haitireborn.org, http://www.haitireborn.org
> Charles-Mathurin is co-director of Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center.
>
> PAUL E. FARMER, M.D., Ph.D. [via Ted Constan, tconstan at pih.org],
> http://www.pih.org
> Farmer is founding director for Partners In Health, which works in Haiti.
> He is the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder's recent book
> "Mountains Beyond Mountains -- Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul
> Farmer." Farmer said today: "This is violent, undemocratic regime change.
> There have been more than 30 coups in Haitian history...."
>
>
> Agence France-Presse:
> U.S. Troops "Made Aristide Leave"
> A man who said he was a caretaker for the now exiled president told
> France's RTL radio station the troops forced Aristide out. "The American
> army came to take him away at two in the morning," the man said. "The
> Americans forced him out with weapons. It was American soldiers. They came
> with a helicopter and they took the security guards. (Aristide) was not
> happy. He did not want to be taken away. He did not want to leave. He was
> not able to fight against the Americans." [See:
> <http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=973655>]
>
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>
>
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