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Ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide Speaks From Exile
Fourteen months ago, Aristide
was flown to the Central African Republic in what he called a modern-day kidnapping in the service of a coup d'etat backed by the United States. In the first extended interview in this country since his exile, we speak with President Aristide about the ailing former Prime Minister
Yvon
Neptune, whether he will return to Haiti, the continuation of the "black holocaust" and much more.
Broadcast - 0/10/05
Haiti's former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune remains near death.
He has been on a hunger strike for over three weeks. He was
imprisoned in June and has yet to see a judge in his case.
Meanwhile, the convictions of 38 Haitian former military
leaders convicted of atrocities in 1994 have been annulled.
Among them could be Louis Jodel Chamblain, the death squad
leader who helped lead last year's coup.
Today, in a Democracy Now national broadcast exclusive, we
spend the hour with ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand
Aristide. Fourteen months ago, Aristide was flown to the Central
African Republic in what he called a modern-day kidnapping in
the service of a coup d'etat backed by the United States.
Aristide was ousted by some of the same forces involved in
the coup against him over a decade earlier. At that time, the
leader of the FRAPH paramilitary death squad was on the payroll
of U.S. intelligence agencies. The number two man - Louis Jodel
Chamblain - was one of the leaders of this current coup.
Two weeks after this latest ouster, President Aristide defied
Washington and returned to the Caribbean accompanied by a
delegation of U.S. and Jamaican lawmakers. Aristide was
eventually granted asylum in South Africa, where he now lives.
I reached him yesterday for the first extended broadcast
interview in this country since moving to South Africa. I began
by asking him about the condition of Yvon Neptune.
- Jean Bertrand Aristide, speaking from South Africa.
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