no attempt at truth and reconciliation in Haiti
Sunday, January 06, 2008
From The Miami Herald
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Mr. Préval, since you are currently the president of Haiti, why don't you start the reconciliation process?
TRUTH SUBMERGED
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
Unlike South Africa, Peru, El Salvador and other nations that have emerged from bloody conflicts, there has been no attempt at truth and reconciliation in Haiti. No trials for atrocities. No tallies of the dead. No clearing of the past.
''In the Protestant faith, when people convert, they speak. They talk to remove all of their sins from their conscience. That is what we need,'' says Préval. Instead, he said, in Haiti victims are now living next to their victimizers and the abusers have even run for elected office.
Among last year's presidential hopefuls: Franck Romain, a top Duvalier official with close ties to the feared Tonton Macoutes and alleged planner of a 1988 attack on former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church that left 12 dead.
''That shouldn't be possible,'' Préval said of Romain's presidential bid.
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Mr. Préval, since you are currently the president of Haiti, why don't you start the reconciliation process?
