UN report details sexual abuse investigations involving foreign forces in Haiti
CNN →A UN report details four sexual abuse investigations implicating members of the Kenyan-led, US-backed Multinational Security Support forces in Haiti, including one case involving a 12-year-old child.
General Barnett Testifies Today in Haiti Probe
Washington, Oct. 26.—Brigadier General Barnett, former commander of the Marine Corps, will appear tomorrow before the naval court of inquiry investigating the American occupation of Haiti to give evidence to his charge of indiscriminate killings of natives in Haiti, which brought about the investigation. The court has concluded examination of departmental records and will begin tomorrow examination of such witnesses as are available in the United States before carrying the inquiry to Haiti. The court has not determined how many witnesses will be heard here, however.
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Les Cayes massacre
On 6 December 1929, about 1,500 Haitians in Les Cayes peacefully demonstrated against economic conditions, high taxes and the arrest of three protest leaders, chanting 'À bas la misère' or 'Down with misery.' The Marines, acting in panic as they felt surrounded, began firing upon the thousands of protesters. The massacre resulted in 12 to 22 Haitian peasants dead, and left 21 to 51 injured.
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Forbes Commission, Borno's resignation
President Hoover appointed two commissions, including one headed by former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes. The Forbes Commission praised the material improvements that the US administration had achieved, but it criticized the continued exclusion of Haitian nationals from positions of real authority in the government and the Gendarmerie.
Wikipedia →Good Neighbor policy
In an effort to denounce past U.S. interventionism and subdue any subsequent fears of Latin Americans, Roosevelt announced on March 4, 1933, during his inaugural address: 'In the field of World policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the Good Neighbor.' The policy's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America — a direct reversal of the decades of Marine-enforced occupation that had defined U.S. Caribbean policy since 1915.
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