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- Subject: Kissinger Diagnoses Aristide
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- From el diario/La Prensa
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- Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is
- a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.
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- Haiti/US
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- Kissinger Calls Someone Else a Murderer and Psychopath?
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- In an interview with right-wing television commentator
- Charles McLaughlin, former US Secretary of State Henry A.
- Kissinger said deposed Hatian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is
- a "proven murderer and psychopath," although he acknowledged that
- Haiti "is not one of my strong points." The interview took place
- at the same time as the Haitian military announced that it had
- accepted an international plan to have Aristide re-installed as
- President of Haiti. Representatives of General Raoul Cedras' de
- facto goverment had accused Aristide of having, during his brief
- administration, promoted the death of many Duvalier agents in the
- Ton Ton Macoutes and others. The Human Rights Commission of the
- Organization of American States acknowledged in the first months
- after Aristide's installation that "there had been numerous
- incidents of popular justice," although they were not attributed
- to the President. The organization said that, on the contrary,
- Aristide created a commission of well-known people to put an end
- to "the crimes and human rights violations, especially putting
- automobile tires on the shoulders of victims and setting them on
- fire."
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- Kissinger said in the interview that he did not approve of
- Cedras' coup but "it is very strange, all this pressure to have a
- proven murderer and psychopath returned. There should be a lot of
- care taken in this area." Kissinger said Haiti's problem will not
- be solved by freezing immigration but through negotiations by the
- Haitians themselves. Upon being reminded that Aristide had been
- elected by a broad majority of the Haitian people, Kissinger
- reponded that "I understand that what is wanted to bring him in
- as a symbolic figure but that the power will be in the hands of
- others. In any case, it is difficult for me to shed any tears for
- Aristide," concluded Kissinger. (edlp 01/20/93 from AP)
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