Bill Clinton, UN chief seek aid for Haiti

Miami Herald
Posted on Mon, Mar. 09, 2009
Bill Clinton, UN chief seek aid for Haiti
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are trying to refocus international attention on Haiti with a visit Monday they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.

The former U.S. president and the U.N. chief planned to tour the run-down capital and meet with Haitian officials who have been struggling with high food prices and a devastating series of storms during a period of relative political calm in the Caribbean country.

Hundreds of people affiliated with the Famni Lavalas party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide greeted the delegation at the airport with signs such as "We love you President Clinton" and "Clinton, we need your help."

Clinton and Ban waved to the crowds but did not make any public comments.
The delegation that includes Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean stopped at a school in the capital's rough Cite Soleil neighborhood, once the site of violent clashes between gangs and U.N. peacekeepers.

Ban spokeswoman Michele Montas said the visit of less than 24 hours was intended to call attention to the need to provide further international help for Haiti.

"The secretary-general and Bill Clinton will bring a strong message of hope that Haiti is still winnable," Montas said.
Clinton, who visited Haiti in 1995, has been popular for his past support of Aristide, a former priest with a strong following among the poor who was forced to flee following a violent uprising in 2004.

The U.N. chief, whose organization has 9,000 peacekeepers in Haiti, is scheduled to go from Port-au-Prince to Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Barack Obama.

President Clinton should be a candidate for the Nobel Peace prize.I hope he listens to the people.If arsitide were not convicted of any crime he should be free to live in his own country with his family.Any other consideration is worthless.Only those who are afraid of his influence over the masses refused to let him enjoy his human right to live free of persecutions in his own country.

It would be a big mistake to think that the Minustah can leave haiti while Aristide is in exile.For peace to endure in haiti the rights of the people to elect their own representatives should be respected.Arsitide is not the problem ,those who refused to let the people enjoy their human rights are the problems.

Rod said: President Clinton should be a candidate for the Nobel Peace prize.

Komante sa pa etonne nou ditou piske se mem Rod ki te di pou yo bati yon lekol ki pote nom MBeki. A loske sel bagay MBeki te pral fe pou pep Ayisyen se vini ak yon bato chaje ak zamm fand fwa ak riot gear pou kwaze pep la.

Se mem Bill Clinton sa ki te fe mete ambago sou pep Ayisyen e kite voye 20,000 marines an Ayiti.
Pale sa w konnen Rod!!

Si nou te genyen yon gouvenman serye, yo te dwe poze la pat sou Bill Clinton Poto-Prins e arete'l pou krim kont pep ayisyen e himanite. Se paske lite gen MINUSTAH la pou proteje'l ki fe ke nou pat arete'l.


Belgrade sentences Clinton for war crimes

Published: 12:00AM Friday September 22, 2000

Belgrade sentenced 14 Western leaders to 20 years in prison each on Thursday for war crimes during last year's NATO air strikes and said it would issue arrest warrants.

US President Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac of France, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and 11 other leaders have been on trial since Monday in the Belgrade District Court. Empty seats in the courtroom were labelled with their names.
"In the name of the people...We sentence...to individual prison terms of 20 years each," presiding judge Veroljub Rakitic said, reading out the 14 names to applause. He said an order was given to issue arrest warrants against them.

The 14 were found guilty as charged for inciting a war of aggression, war crimes against the civilian population, use of banned weapons, attempted murder of President Slobodan Milosevic and the violation of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity.

Milosevic was indicted with four close aides by the International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia for repressing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo before and during the bombing, in March to June of last year.

The tribunal refused to open an investigation into allegations that NATO leaders were guilty of war crimes in the air campaign that forced Serb forces to withdraw from Kosovo.

"They fired 600 cruise missiles and made 25,119 air sorties during the 78-day aggression, attacking both military and civilian targets, killing and wounding many people and causing mass destruction of property," the charges read.

"During their so-called humanitarian intervention they have killed 546 soldiers and 504 civilians, of whom 88 children... They left behind them devastation in the place of modern factories, bridges, schools," Rakitic said.

The trial began a few days before September 24 elections which the Yugoslav government portrays as a choice between "patriotism and treachery" branding its domestic opponents traitors and NATO lackeys plotting to destroy Serbia.

Accused said to be afraid to appear

Rakitic said the accused had violated the United Nations Charter and described the attacks as "an unauthorised aggression on a sovereign country".

"We invited the accused to come to the court and present their defence. They ignored the invitation, or were maybe afraid to face reality and their consciences," he said.

During the three-day trial video material was presented as evidence and forensic and other reports and testimonies of survivors read out. Defence attorneys also had their say.

Slavisa Mrdakovic, who was appointed to defend Chirac, said Clinton may have kept other leaders in the dark.

"If I were the judge, and it's a good thing I am not, I would...take a gun and shoot both Clinton and the other scum for all the evil they have done," he was quoted by independent news agency Beta as saying on Wednesday.

Rakitic expressed regret the penal code had not foreseen higher penalties.

"Our humane criminal code does not stipulate higher sentences because it could not be foreseen that such a crime could be committed...that is why this court is limited by the penalty and has sentenced each accused to 20 years," he said.

http://www.zpub.com/un/war-crimes.html

Se wou ki pou pale de sa w konnen.Konbyen ayisyen ki te mouri ant 1991-1994?konbyen ki te mouri lè marinn yo te remete yon Presidan eli demokratikman o pouvwa?Mwen pa yon engra non mwen konn moun ki fè m byen.Wi mwen mande pou pep ayisyen dedye yon ri ou byen yon lekol pou Mbeki paske se li ki te aksepte yon ayisyen parey mwen ke yo pat konnen kote pou yo te mete l.jis koulyè ya se li ki fè vote yon lajan nan bidjè peyi Sud Afrika pou nouri ,loge Arisitde ak tout fanmi li.si se te pou engra yo Arisitde te met mouri ak tout pitit li yo. e se li tou ki te ofri ed poul te anpeche ke mèsenè te boule biro leta mete di fe nan Pelig epi touye Presidan.

Si wap pale de sa ki pase an Yougoslavy la o kontrè clinton te pran twop tan poul te sove minorite ke yo tap masakre.petet si li te fè menm bagay lan o Rwanda; tout moun sa yo pa ta mouri.ki moun koulyè ya ki bay plis sekou ke Bill clinton kote Tsunami pase. e nan peyi afriken tankou Rwanda ,Uganda, Liberya etc?se petet Bill Gates selman ki bay plis lajan pase organisatyon Bill Clinton lan.Yo sot kondane Milosevic pou krim kont lumanite.se pa yon tribinal ameriken ki kondane li non.Mwen tap gade ki jan yon solda nan lame Milosevic la te dekri ki jan li te koupe tet manb tout yon fanmi minorite ke yo tap persekite yo.se masak saa ke w vle ke lunmanite te kite yo perpetre?Pou wou se pou Bill clinton te kite Michel Francois ak cedras touye tout moun nan site soley ak nan katye pov yo?Fok ou di nou ki kan wap defann wi?

ou renmen kontredi sam di men byenerezman ou pa genyen agiman ase pou fè sa.