Ex-general accused of role in mass killing in Haiti

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Thu, Jan. 15, 2004

IMMIGRATION LAW
Ex-general accused of role in mass killing in Haiti
A former Haitian general who briefly led the military under U.S. occupation is arrested in Orlando on a Haitian warrant linking him to a massacre.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
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Jean-Claude Duperval, a former major general who briefly led the Haitian military under U.S. occupation a decade ago, was arrested in Orlando early Wednesday in connection with a warrant from Haiti linking him to one of the worst massacres in Haitian history.

In 1994, soldiers and paramilitary thugs targeted anti-military dissidents in the poor beachfront neighborhood of Raboteau north of Port-au-Prince shooting or beating to death at least 26 people.

Duperval, 56, is the highest ranking former Haitian military officer detained in the United States as a suspected foreign human rights violator. He was given command of the Haitian military in October 1994 by former Gen. Raoul Cedras after the United States intervened to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

Duperval, the fifth former Haitian officer detained in the United States in connection with the massacre, is awaiting deportation back to Haiti where he has been convicted in absentia of murder. (snip)

Duperval, who has been living in the United States for about nine years, had been targeted by the federal human rights violators unit and is one of more than 60 foreign torture suspects, many from Haiti, who have been arrested in the United States since the immigration service began tracking foreign human rights violators in 2000.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/7713284.htm

[Nlighten1]

1. Another US teamed war criminal living in Florida...

who'd a thunk it?

[Flagg]

2. winning more hearts and minds all over the world

WWIII:

The world VS The US ?

[Gman]

3. As long as he's not an Islamic terrorist its ok for him to be here

Don't hold your breath waiting for Bush to do something.