First Election for Aristide, vs USA. Abrams's Death Squad diplomacy
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Action-packed true story of Aristide's first electon to become President of Haiti... From
Paul Farmer's
The Uses of Haiti.
.> As Amy Wilentz noted, "The junta that Elliott Abrams had called Haiti's best chance for democracy was pleased by the attacks on the electoral process, and doubtless encouraged them.' Every morning, the streets of Port-au-Prince were littered with bodies:
.> Usually they were nobodies knocked off at random, perhaps killed to settle small scores. Sometimes. however, they were young members of opposition organizations, and the nightly murders, the daily cadavers in the street, the randomness, the unknown killers, the whole setup was a warning to everyone associated with the elections and with the opposition, and that included voters.
.> The U.S. embassy was not interested either in investigating these killings or in protesting the assassinations of candidates. Kenneth Roth, then deputy director of Human Rights Watch, stated that "When we investigated political murders in Haiti, U.S. Ambassador McKinley refused all cooperation." When asked why the embassy failed to protest such killings, the envoy replied, "We have no proof of such killings." Roth and his co-workers offered to provide proof, at which point "Ambassador McKinley replied that he found protesting such things as political murders 'boring."'
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