Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these fugitives range from 100,000 to 300,000 of Haiti's 7 million people. Marronage has its roots in the 17th century, when slaves in the French colony began escaping from plantations into the mountains. After the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup, his supporters returned to the ways of their ancestors. They know the tricks of disguise -- men often dress as merchant women -- but the fear and frustration never fade. Families live apart, sometimes for years at a time. "You learn to live like a bat," says Aristide. "You fly at night...
...Pierre was never a political activist. His only offense was to serve as the jury foreman in the case of Roger Lafontant, one of Haiti's most notorious Macoutes thugs. "I read the guilty verdict," he says, "and that is when my troubles began." A week after the 1991 coup, five men with machine guns came to his house and accused him of conspiring to condemn the now dead Lafontant. After two years' hiding in the countryside, he returned to organize a self-defense brigade in the capital. Soldiers encircled the slum and opened fire. He escaped and in desperation...
...realistic plan for not just toppling the Cedras clique but also replacing it with a genuinely democratic government. That means coming to terms with Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest who won a free election in 1990 but was ousted as President by an army coup and has been living in exile in Washington for the past 34 months...
...Leader to his father's Great Leader. He also became culture czar, producing movies and lecturing on the art of opera. Kim Il Sung spared nothing to burnish his son's reputation. The younger Kim was credited, years after the supposed incident, with saving his father from a 1967 coup attempt. He was named General Secretary of the Workers' Party. Though without military training, Kim Jong Il was elected in 1991 to succeed his father as commander of the country's 1.2 million-strong armed forces. In the past few years, he has reportedly taken on the daily work...
...most terrifying episode in a week when Haitians fled their stricken country in record numbers. More than 5,000 refugees took to boats during the week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior...