Monday, February 16, 2004
Haiti's Price of De-Militarism
Haiti's Price of De-Militarism - Gangsters Return
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This Sunday's (February 15 2004) Miami Herald pointedly reports that three past Haitian criminals engineerd a return to Haiti through a staged infiltration of their gangs to various Haitian towns and cities. Using the de-militarism of President Aristide's democratic Haiti which sought a lesser military - Mexican & Costa Rican style - they struck to inflict crime and terror. The learned can little conclude that the gangs simply guaged and tested the Haitian Governemnt with its lesser police and military and pressed it. As of last Sunday (02/15) the Dominican Republic has promised to intern Haiti-hostile criminal elements; and the OAS has dispatched a multi-lateral police force. However the wait has cost Haiti death and government credibility and the major city and departmental center of Gonnaives in Artibonite - 200,000 people hostage. Further and similar analyis in the syndicated column of William Raspberry. Sadly meaning well - the Aristide Government - popular in the past and now in unpopularity was unprepared and outgunned - or forced to choose an aunacceptable level of civilian casualty risk. Only a stand down of the criminal rebels and a ceasefire with policing help - can sustain the constitutional order. Miami Herald - Haiti 02/15/04 More Haitian news links at the blog post below - DEBRIEF. |
// posted by scotty of course @ 2:12 PM 
