Human rights group says Haiti's new leader in 'unholy alliance' with rebel

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Associated Press

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - Haiti's new leader is in an "unholy alliance" with rebels including convicted assassins, one human rights group charged Monday, while another warned that peacekeepers aren't doing enough to control rebels.

Several human rights groups questioned interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue's actions at a weekend rally where he celebrated the gangsters who began Haiti's uprising as "freedom fighters."

Meanwhile ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Family party, in disarray since many officials fled or are in hiding, appeared to be regrouping and warned Monday that there can be no peace without the participation of Haiti's largest political movement.


A statement from Sen. Yvon Feuille charged Lavalas members are being hounded across the country and even killed.

"Everywhere Lavalas is a victim. Besides those physical massacres, we see there is a political massacre being prepared behind Lavalas' back," he said.

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Armed men identifying themselves as a rebels of the Front for the Liberation of Haiti, and that they were patrolling the streets with Haitian police drive past by a dead body in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)