Reply #28: Exiled Paramilitaries Join Haiti Rebels

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Mon, Feb. 16, 2004

Exiled Paramilitaries Join Haiti Rebels

MICHAEL NORTON

Associated Press


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A rebel force trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide grew in size as former exiled paramilitary troops joined the insurrection and aid workers hurried to get doctors and supplies to the cut-off north.

A humanitarian convoy left from Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, for St. Marc, a northern port city where rebels burned the police station and torched a clinic. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross would lead the convoy, officials said.
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The rebels launched a rebellion on Feb. 5 from Gonaives, 70 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. Although the rebels are thought to number less than Haiti's 5,000-member police force, exiled paramilitary leaders and police have reportedly joined them.

One of those reportedly is Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a former Haitian soldier who headed army death squads in 1987 and a militia known as the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH. The group allegedly killed and maimed hundreds of people between 1991 and 1994.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/7962433.htm

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Thanks, Suspicious, for the info. about today's C-Span.

As long as people aren't aware of actual history of places undergoing real struggle, they are complete victems to the slimey characters who deliberately would mislead them.

It's so easy to manipulate people who don't go to the trouble to inform themselves.