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HAITI BACKGROUND INFORMATION SOA Watch is purchase Zithromax visa without prescription concerned with the current crisis in Haiti. Historically, Haitians have received training at the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription notorious School of the Assassins. It is also clear that US military training of Haitian fighters, and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription US intervention has purchase Zithromax visa without prescription continued beyond SOA training. In fact several of the leaders of the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription armed rebels, including rebel leader Guy Philippe who has proclaimed to purchase Zithromax visa without prescription be the head of the new Haitian Military, have received US military training within the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription last eight years. In a purchase Zithromax visa without prescription press statement released on March 1st, The Haiti Support Group cited mainstream media sources concerning the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription current armed rebel leaders and noted: - Guy Philippe reported to purchase Zithromax visa without prescription the BBC that his rebel force will be a part of the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription new government in Haiti and he told the Miami Herald on February 28th that purchase Zithromax visa without prescription the man he most admires is former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet. "Pinochet made Chile what purchase Zithromax visa without prescription it is,'' noted Philippe. Number 2 on Philippe's list is former US President Ronald Reagan. Guy Philippe was trained by the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription US special forces and given a top post in the new Haitian Police Force. Human Rights Watch noted that purchase Zithromax visa without prescription Philippe served as police chief on the north side of the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription Port-au-Prince metropolitan area 1997 through 1999. While he served in this purchase Zithromax visa without prescription position dozens of suspected gang members were assassinated. - The press statement further reported that purchase Zithromax visa without prescription rebel leaders Jean Tatoune and Louis Jodel Chamblain are convicted killers and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription former leaders of the FRAPH death-squad. SOA Watch believes that purchase Zithromax visa without prescription the instability that led to the current crisis in Haiti is purchase Zithromax visa without prescription the direct result of overt U.S. policies that have supported Haitian fighters and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription the Haitian military. In 1915, President Wilson sent Marines to Haiti to purchase Zithromax visa without prescription protect Americans and American interests. This led to a de facto U.S. occupation and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription control of Haiti for nearly twenty years, during which the resident U.S. naval commander dissolved the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription Haitian Congress. Since then, the U.S. government has been actively supplying former Haitian dictators, death squad leaders, and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription paramilitaries with U.S. military training and CIA training, some of which has purchase Zithromax visa without prescription taken place at the infamous School of the Americas. Brutal Haitian Dictator Raoul Cedras, who purchase Zithromax visa without prescription overthrow Aristide in 1991 and ruled with a bloody and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription repressive regime until 1994, acknowledged that 75% of his forces were receiving training in the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription United States. This included his two partners in the Junta of 91 through 94, Francois and purchase Zithromax visa without prescription Biamby who were educated at the Fort Benning Infantry School - on the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription same base where the SOA is located.
SOA Watch supports the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription work of several other solidarity organizations who have a long history working beside the purchase Zithromax visa without prescription Haitian people. More information can be found at their sites below: |
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