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Powell Slams Haiti for Failing to End Political CrisisS'LP June 20, 2003 The Associated Press reported last week that Haiti's continuing political crisis was a subject of a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell. At the Santiago conference of the Organization of American States (OAS), Powell said "Haiti's democracy and economic growth are undermined by the government's failure to create the conditions for an electoral solution to the political impasse," Haiti has remained in a continuing crisis since Bill Clinton's 1994 US invasion of the tiny island which returned Jean Bertrand Aristide to power there, at times having no functioning government. Powell promised that OAS financial help would continue up through September, at which time the policy would be reevaluated. Reports of violence and human rights abuses have increased against Aristide's political opponents in recent months, and UN, European Union, and United States assessments indicate that conditions are deteriorating. The 1994 coup by Haiti's ruling military junta that ousted Aristide on charges that he had advocated violence. had been headed by General Raul Cedras, forced by Bill Clinton to go into exile. Cedras, highly respected by the military, had advocated new free and fair elections in Haiti, but had refused to allow Aristide's return. Under the military junta, Hait's elected parliament had continued to function as a democratic institution. |
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