SINCE THE September 1991 coup which overthrew Haiti's elected president, radical priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the army and police have killed more than 1500 Pire anni anniversary of the Caribbean country's first democratic elections, police shot dead one left wing MP and burned down the houses of two others.
Thousands of people have been fleeing the island to escape he repression, mainly heading for the United States. Inter cepted by coastguards, 9,500 have been interned at the US base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Repatriation
Now, the US government intends to repatriate these refugees, back into the hands of the army and the notorious TonThe Macoutes were for decades the private army of dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, and subsequently of his son 'Baby Doc.
Bush's decision to send back the refugees contrasts starkly with the attitude of the US towards those fleeing Cuba, who are automatically welcomed in Miami.
Officially the US deplored the overthrow of Aristide; but many of Aristide's supporters Azeri tanks close in on besieged Armenian enciave FOR MORE than three years there has been bitter political dispute and ground-level fighting over the future of Ngorno-Karabakh, the ethnically Armenian territory surrounded on all sides by Azerbaijan.
Since the surge of inde Soviet republics, both Azerbaijan and Armenia have claimed the district. The people of Nagorno Karabakh themsel ves have made their position clear repeatedly: they are Armenian and want unity with Armenia.
Now the armed Azeri-Arsuspect that the State Department and the CIA gave the green light to the military plotfers. The US is involved in a bizarre and elaborate diplomatic game to prevent the return and reinstatement of In a deal cooked up with US involvement, it appears that the military have agreed to install Communist Party leader Rene theodore aste hermis replacing nominee Jean Jaques Honorat. Meanwhile the legitimate prime minister i who served under Aristide, Kene Prevai, romans in hiding in their French Embassy.
Buying time
The hidden aim of all this diplomatic activity is to buy time. Time in which the putschists can establish a position of strength, dismantle the popular organisations and terThus when (and Aristide returns from exile, the bourgeoisie will be safe from any radical move ment under his leadership.
The willingness of the Communist Party to go along with the US diplomatic game speaks volumes about its political line. was so own tomatially in Who holds the resi January waen plain-clothes police burst into Theodore's and, beat him up and killed his bodyguard. menian conflict is reaching crunch point. Karabakh is be sieged and risks a crushing The Karabakh capital Stepanakert is under dally combarament Thousands of Armenian civilians in outlying villages have been murdered or anven from their homes by invading The issue of Karabakh has been systematically used by reactionary nationalist forces in Azerbaijan to build support. Prior to the fall of Gorbachev the conflict was worsened by the cynical divide-and-rule policies of the Kremlin leaders.
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