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Loune Viaud of Haiti, center, receives the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award from Ethel Kennedy,left, at a ceremony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2002. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is at right. Loune is the director of strategic planning and operations at the Zanmi Lasante Social-Medical Complex in Cange, Haiti. Robert was born on this date in 1925. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
                     
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Loune Viaud of Haiti places the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award on a table after she accepted during a ceremony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2002. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is at left and Ethel Kennedy in the center background. Loune is the director of strategic planning and operations at the Zanmi Lasante Social-Medical Complex in Cange, Haiti. Robert was born on this date in 1925. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
                            

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US Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) makes remarks during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award ceremonies on Capitol Hill in Washington November 20, 2002. The award was presented to Loune Viaud for her work at the Zanmi Lasante medical complex in Cange, Haiti. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
                          
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Loune Viaud receives the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work in providing free health care to poor of Haiti, November 20, 2002 at the Capitol in Washington. US Senator Edward Kennedy (L) presented the award on behalf of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights to Viaud for her work at the Zanmi Lasante medical complex in Cange, Haiti. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Strange: Loune Viaud,   a cousin of Haiti's totalitarian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a person we met about fourteen years ago, is not a human rights pioneer.  She has no record of so at all in the Haitian immigrant communities or Haiti. She is, rather, one of the Haitians who approve Aristide's burning of political opponents alive.  wehaitians.com
                             
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Wyclef Jean from Haiti performs at the Zuercher Hallenstadion in Zurich, Thursday, Nov. 21 2002, in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Franco Greco)
                                   
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