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blood on whose hands?

Submitted March 12, 2004 - 11:00 pm by Andrew Grice (not verified)

A quote from the Reuters report linked above.  So-called opposition leader Charles Baker says of Jamaica allowing Aristide to visit:
"Aristide will inflame passions and give more fuel to his assassins. If people are killed in Haiti with Aristide in Jamaica, Patterson will have part of the blood on his hands."
Note that Baker is part of the same "non-violent opposition" that categorically refused any deal which didn't include Aristide's resignation.  Plenty of the blood this coup has caused is already on his hands.  
It can hardly said to be P.J. Patterson's fault that the coup regime in Haiti lacks any legitimacy.  If it were a legitimate regime, Aristide's presence on another carribean island wouldn't be cause for concern.  

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