| South Africa has...joined Caribbean countries in their call for an investigation into Aristide's departure, reportedly under escort, in a US aircraft from Haiti.
Mbeki declined the request, according to a report in This Day quoting Pallo Jordan, a senior ruling party official, who chairs parliament's foreign affairs portfolio committee. For most of the week, South Africa was billed as Aristide's ultimate destination in international media reports. Pretoria denies receiving any formal request to grant him asylum. Government officials, however, stressed that they would not turn the democratically elected Haitian leader away. ...Aristide subsequently flew to the Central African Republic, where he remains and is said to be under guard while in transit. "What has unfolded in Haiti is a coup d'etat," said Jordan. Haiti's armed, rebel soldiers from whom opposition parties have disassociated themselves, did not deserve the legitimacy accorded them by the US and France, he said. "It is clear Washington chose to help the rebels get rid of Aristide, first by inaction, then by flying him out of the country, he wrote. |
Indeed.
Good on the Caribbean countries and South Africa to call for an investigation. We've got lots of them going on here in the U.S. on the administration already. And I say, bring 'em on.
Why do you suppose Mr. Aristide has to be under guard in the Central African Republic if he is out of Haiti by choice? Are there Haitians in the CAR who are trying to kill him?
And, just as a side note, some Washington lobbyists apparently took Mr. Arisitide for a long ride.
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