Haitian ex-PM Neptune starving himself to death

[dArKeR]

Once again, one man has become the center of a political storm that threatens to foil this country's uphill struggle for stability.
This time, it's not Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest and charismatic slum leader who was deposed last year by an armed uprising and forced into exile. It is the man who rose and fell in Aristide's shadow, his former prime minister, Yvon Neptune.

The former senator and radio talk show host has been jailed for a year without charges under a new government installed by the US and is slowly starving himself to death in a minimum-security prison cell.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/17/2003259632

[magellan]

1. Spreading democracy, the American way

"The Neptune case has raised hard questions about the legitimacy of the United States' intervention in Haiti," McCalla said. "The intervention was based on the premise that the United States was ousting a criminal despot, namely President Aristide, who had used his powers to subvert democracy, and that the interim government was going to establish rule of law. That has not happened."

If Neptune dies, it will be just one more death of an innocent on the hands of this blood-soaked administration. WHY we have been interfering in Haiti -- a sovereign nation that had a democratically elected president in Aristide until our commandos literally kidnapped and exiled him to S. Africa -- is yet another question Bush** must answer.

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

[anarchy1999]

3. Calling Stan Goff! He knows more than any of us.

Stan, please come out!