Aristide terminates US treaty

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New York, CanaReuter Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday told President Clinton he was ending the 12-year-old treaty that allows the United States to stop fleeing Haitian refugees at sea and return them home, an aide said.

The aide, Aristide legal adviser Michael Barnes, said Aristide sent Clinton a letter giving the required six-month notice to terminate the treaty that has been used as the legal basis for sending thousands of Haitian boat people back to Haiti after being intercepted by the US Coast Guard on the high seas. On Tuesday, a US official in Haiti said the military had resumed its policy of arresting some of the boat people. forcibly returned to the country.

Human rights groups have also reported an increase in the numbers of arrests and killings of Aristide supporters in Haiti in recent weeks as the military to fight any move to return Aristide to power.