
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, September 26, 1993                   TAG: 9309260059
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO                                LENGTH: Short

RIGHTS GROUP: U.S. AIDS HAITI TYRANNY

The head of an international human rights group has accused the United States of complicity in Haiti's repression, saying Washington is rushing to turn over victims to their persecutors.

The accusation by Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, came ahead of the release today of a report criticizing U.S. immigration policy toward Haitians who have sought to flee their homeland following a 1991 coup.

U.S. policy, begun under former President Bush and continuing with President Clinton, is to ship back home all Haitian refugees captured at sea.

The report and Roth also denounced as slow and inconsistent the U.S. effort to interview asylum-seekers inside Haiti. They recommended sending more U.S. refugee officials to help with the workload.

- Associated Press

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