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(c)1994, Miami Herald
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Monday, 2-28:
The reign of terror unleashed by Haiti's usurpers is even grimmer than anyone thought. A new report by Venezuelan lawyer Marco Tulio Bruni-Celli, the special rapporteur named by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to investigate Haiti's situation, details hundreds of systematic rights violations committed by the outlaws who misrule Haiti.
Bruni-Celli visited Haiti as part of his investigation. He then presented his brief to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva. His report concludes that Haiti's army and police, and the civilian thugs who are allied with them, have murdered 3,000 Haitians since the September 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Bruni-Celli charges Haiti's thugs with wholesale ``intimidation, violent attacks, arbitrary arrests, summary executions, and torture.'' Aristide's supporters are particularly vulnerable.
The report's stupefying conclusions cast a pall over the Clinton administration's demand that Aristide ...