-Caveat Lector- Alleged War Criminals in U.S. BOSTON (AP) -- Alleged war criminals have found a safe haven in the United States in recent years, under the noses of immigration officials and sometimes with help from the U.S. government, The Boston Globe reported today. The newspaper said it found evidence that people from countries including Haiti and El Salvador, and people involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia, have settled in this country and begun new lives, despite evidence of their involvement in serious human rights abuses. The list includes three alleged participants in ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia; several former associates of Somali strongman Mohammed Siad Barre; 16 Haitian military officers; and a Salvadoran general accused of covering up the massacre of four American churchwomen in 1980, according to the Globe. ``I was a member of the Haitian army high command,'' said Carl Dorelien, a former head of personnel for the 7,000-member army that seized power from President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 and killed as many as 4,000 civilians. ``I lived like a king in my country.'' Dorelien, who now lives in a resort community in Port St. Lucie, Fla., won $3.2 million in a Florida lottery in 1997. At the time, lottery officials described him as a penniless immigrant and political refugee. But Dorelien says the U.S. military got him a five-year visa after the corrupt Haitian army was forced from power in 1994 by 20,000 U.S. troops. Fifteen other Haitian military officers have since joined him in the United States and are living mainly in New York and Florida, he said. Dan Cadman, chief of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's national security unit, said his agency is concerned about the problem of human rights offenders taking shelter here. But he said it is relatively rare. ``The concern is deep, but that doesn't necessarily suggest there is a widespread problem,'' Cadman said. The U.S. government has invested millions of dollars in a program to hunt down Nazis who slipped into the country after World War II. But some human rights monitors say more recent war criminals have been overlooked. ``It's in the thousands,'' said Gerald Gray, who last year founded the Center for Justice and Accountability to track down human rights violators and bring them to justice. The San Francisco-based center has filed lawsuits against two alleged war criminals -- a Bosnian Serb refugee living in Atlanta who allegedly tortured prisoners and a former Chilean secret police officer living in Miami accused of torturing and executing a former government official. ``It is really appalling to think that the United States has become the retirement home of choice for murderers and despots,'' said William Ford, a New York attorney whose sister Ita, a nun, was killed by members of the Salvadoran National Guard. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
