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Original Post Date: 2004-03-01 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/1/2004 6:44:11 AM
S.Africa: Opposition Political Parties condemn giving Aristide Asylum
[If the ANC aims to give Aristide asylum they will completely ignore everyone else’s viewpoint. The ANC has been very quiet so far, and that makes me wonder whether maybe they are going to do this. Jan]
Cape Town – More South African opposition parties have condemned a reported plan for ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to seek asylum here.
“We believe that it would not be in the best interests of South Africa as a democratic country to give such a person asylum,” African Christian Democratic Party president Kenneth Meshoe said on Monday.
“We should not be seen to be defending human rights abuses.”
Aristide has arrived in the Central African Republic, where according to Agence France Presse, he intends to spend a few days before heading for South Africa.
The South African foreign affairs ministry has denied knowledge of any asylum request.
Meshoe said if Aristide had violated human rights in Haiti he should answer for these atrocities instead being given refuge here.
National Action co-leader Cassie Aucamp said that South Africa would be again aligning itself with “the Gaddaffis and the Castros” by granting asylum.
‘Strange friendships’
It was ironic that South Africa should grant asylum to someone accused of human rights violations in his own country when there were still people in South African jails serving sentences for apartheid-era human rights violations.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said the situation in Haiti reflected badly on President Thabo Mbeki after he decided to give credibility to Aristide by officially visiting Haiti recently.
“In future it will be better if the South African government use normal human rights criteria in choosing their friends and their official visits and let their judgment not be polluted with pro-black or anti-white sentiments and subjectivity,” he said.
The Democratic Alliance said at the weekend that South Africa should not become a safe-haven for dictators, and that its fund of goodwill was being dissipated by “strange friendships”.
Edited by Tisha Steyn
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Pol…br>