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This public humiliation of officers on duty was a breaking point. Many policemen simply took off their uniforms and stayed at home. The much feared police chief of the capital district, Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, fled across the border to the Dominican Republic, turning the former Big Three of dictators into a diminished...
...American authorities after the raid with an offer to help them damp down violence, and they had accepted. Fritz Joseph, a FRAPH member who has gone into hiding, has a less charitable interpretation. Referring to Constant and Michel Francois, the police chief who has fled into exile in the Dominican Republic, Joseph says, "They both cut deals for themselves and left everyone else who worked with them without protection...
...shootout with U.S. Marines. U.S. officials ignored the ceremony, while pro-democracy Haitians helped U.S. soldiers track down army-allied gunmen who had terrorized neighborhoods since the junta seized power in 1991. Francois, who engineered the coup but slipped away to a comfortable house in the neighboring Dominican Republic, left behind a letter that reproaches the other two capos for striking an agreement with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: "I believe fervently that the leaders of the army had the fundamental duty to defend, above all, the higher interests of the country," it reads in part. "We have to recognize...
JOHNSON -- Dominican Republic: "Only an immediate landing of American forces could safeguard and protect the lives of thousands of Americans...
Baker, too, echoes the policy he favored as Secretary of State. "Turn back the refugees and toughen the sanctions," he argues. "Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic has yet to be sealed effectively." Baker concedes embargoes hurt the innocent most, but says "you can't conclude they can't work until you've imposed them seriously...