Aristide to return to Haiti?
Lawyer requests passport for Jean-Bertrand Aristide – Miami-Dade Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/world/americas/01haiti.html
Duvalier law takes effect
a new law went into effect in Switzerland allowing the government to claim dictators’ funds deposited in their banks and believed to be of criminal origin. Duvalier allegedly has up to $7.3 million deposited there. The statute is dubbed the “Duvalier law.” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay offered to assist in his
Baby Doc Duvalier’s human rights violations
“He inherited a system of government that was based on killing people,” said Jean-Claude Bajeux, a democracy activist in Port-au-Prince. “I think that was the tragedy of this guy: He was not aware of the monstrosity of what he was doing every day. To him, killing people and torturing people was normal life.”Human rights cases
Duvalier breaks silence
Duvalier, 59, made the trip just before a Swiss law that could entitle him to at least $4.6 million takes effect on Feb. 1. To collect the funds, he would have to show Haitian authorities aren’t interested in prosecuting him. Duvalier breaks silence as U.S. gets tough – Haiti – MiamiHerald.com
Miami Herald: Duvalier torture victims disinclined to forgive
By Jacqueline Charles PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (MCT) — Each time jailers returned him to his fortress of misery, Claude Rosier thought this might be it: the day he’d breathe his last breath, felled by a firing squad or wasted by dysentery. “You knew you were there to die,” he said. But Rosier never gave up hope
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