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Demand Release of Political Prisoners, End to Repression Demand the release of all political prisoners in Haiti and the stop of government repression against Lavalas supporters: Date: 10/6/04 Haiti is experiencing a massive, violent upsurge in government repression against the Lavalas movement, government critics, human rights activists and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The number of unwarranted arrests has dramatically risen, while police conducts more raids and uses force against unarmed demonstrators. On Saturday October 2nd, 2004, Haitian police forcibly entered a private radio station, Radio Caribe, where three leading Lavalas parliamentarians had denounced political violence on air. The three...

According to the New York Daily News (February 29, 2004), John Kerry accused President Bush of "deliberately helping insurgents in the bloody Haitian uprising." Moreover, Kerry said that if he were in office he would have "sent troops to Haiti even without International support to quell the revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide"...a very strong statement from the man who once said that he'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations. So who is this man that John Kerry would use the US military to put back in power? His name...

<p>After the flood, it's time to salvage what's left of the wreckage in Haiti. It's also time for a reassessment of the tragic Haitian democratic experiment.</p> <p>The flood was real in Haiti. The forces that propelled Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power had called themselves the "Lavalas Movement." Lavalas, or avalanche in Creole, is a flash flood that destroys everything in its path.</p>