AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
1 March 2004

Haiti: Lessons must be learned from past mistakes

Only by learning from the mistakes of the multinational intervention of 10 in years ago can the international community effectively protect human rights in Haiti today, Amnesty International said, calling on the UN Security Council to heed five key human rights lessons from the 1994 multinational intervention in Haiti and its aftermath as the Multinational Interim Force is deployed.

The UN Security Council has mandated the force to assist Haitian security forces "to establish and maintain public safety and law and order and to promote and protect human rights". Significantly, the resolution also states that "there will be individual accountability and no impunity for violators." On the basis of these commitments, Amnesty International urgently calls for the following:

1. that the Multinational Interim Force (MIF) commit to ensuring the disarmament of both the rebel forces and the pro-Aristide militias. The failure to disarm the disbanded Haitian military and paramilitary in 1994 has been one of the root causes of ongoing political violence in Haiti.

for more, go to Amnesty International Press Release on Haiti

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