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...witnessing the coup d'?tat machine in motion." Yvon Neptune, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to quell an uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...course of the Front's relations with Aristide demonstrates the complex character of Haiti's leader. Chosen in a 1990 landslide as the first leader of Haiti freely elected by its citizens, the charismatic former priest was deposed soon after in a military coup and then restored to power in 1994 through a U.S.led armed intervention. Aristide quickly disappointed many of his supporters by behaving like an autocrat; he was accused of arming gangs like the Cannibals that attacked his opponents. After flawed parliamentary elections in 2000, donor countries began cutting off much needed aid. Under international pressure to rein...
...enemies. And that strategy is in many ways backfiring on him. Guy Phillipe, the most visible figure in the rebel front, used to be a police honcho. But other key figures, such as Louis Jodel Chamblain, are veterans of Fraph, a paramilitary organization created during the anti-Aristide military coup of 1991 (reversed in 1994 by U.S. intervention), whose function was to terrorize those sections of the population supporting Aristide. It's far from clear how extensive the rebels' organization is, and even what the political agenda of their leaders...
...braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will of the electorate. Haiti's tiny police force is no match for the rebels, some...
Murphy admits to being excited with his recruiting coup, but remains practical...