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Article: Haiti: Time for Muscle
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 7, 1994
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If there is a worse foreign policy botch than Haiti, nothing
comes to mind. By comparison, Bosnia is a muddled success, North
Korea is a model of consistency, and Somalia was a triumph.
Elsewhere - Russia, trade with Japan - things may not be going
swimmingly but the word "debacle" cannot yet be applied. Only Haiti
fills that bill.
In the past year, hundreds of people have been killed by the
Haitian military regime's paramilitary buddies - and with methods
unknown in that country until recently: decapitation and the
mutilation of bodies. The wives of dissidents have been raped, and
whole neighborhoods have been torched to get a single suspect.
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), an ...