Around the time of President Habyarimana’s plane crash in Rwanda, Randall Robinson of TransAfrica started a hunger strike to protest the Clinton administration’s automatic repatriation of Haitians fleeing the coup that had ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Robinson was quoted in the Washington Post on April 12, 1994, a week after the Rwandan massacres had begun, talking about America’s Haitian refugee policy: “I can’t remember ever being more disturbed by any public policy than I am by this one. I can’t remember any American foreign policy as hurtful, as discriminatory, as racist as this one. It
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