University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 4, 1992
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U.S. returns Haitians
Activists, officials fear repatriates may face death
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States began its repatriation program for thousands of Haitian refugees yesterday, turning over 381 people to Haitian authorities with $15 in their pockets and an uncertain future.
U. N. officials and human-rights advocates warned that many of the 12,000 boat people in U.S. custody face death or intimidation at the hands of
Haitian security forces if they return to their towns and villages.
Officials at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where nearly all the Haitians are being held, said those who returned on two Coast Guard cutters yesterday did so voluntarily, but others did not want to go back.
Dozens in the first group said they had risked their lives fleeing in rickety boats to get away from Haiti's poverty and not political persecution.
The United States has denied asylum to most intercepted Haitians, saying they were not political refugees as U.S. law requires. The Supreme Court opened the way Friday for their repatriation by overturning a federal judge's order that had blocked their
The repatriation caused an outcry among some politicians and advocates of the immigrants who think that these people would be exposed to political reprisal on their return.
return for months.
"Had we been any other country—white or Spanish —we would have had a chance," Florence Comeau of the Haitian Affairs Committee in New York said yesterday. "The Cubans can come in any time. The Cubans are people, the Haitians are people, but one is light-skinned, and the other is not."
In Washington, White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the repatriation was being monitored by U.S. Embassy officers as well as representatives of the Organization of American States and the Red Cross.
Argentina to free Nazi files
The Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina After decades of secrecy, the Argentine government displayed yesterday some of its files on Nazis who fled to this South American country after World War II, and said all such files would be made public soon.
"This is a debt Argentina is paying to humanity," President Carlos Menem said at a news conference attended by Cabinet ministers, foreign ambassadors, Nazi hunters and reporters from around the world.
Experts said the documents may
shed light on some of history's dark corners, particularly on how former top Nazis vanished from Europe as the Third Reich collapsed and showed up months and years later in the South American nation.
The files are locked away by the Federal Police, Immigration Department and other agencies. Menem's decree removed the documents from protection by an official secrets act and ordered them collected by the National Archives.
The files are to be turned over within 30 days, and will be opened for public inspection as soon as they have been
put on microfilm.
Adolf Eichmann, the architect of Hitler's attempted extermination of Europe's Jews, found refuge in Argentina. So did Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There have been rumors of sightings of Martin Bormann, Hitler's top deputy who many experts think died in Berlin in 1945.
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