Word: haitianization
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...violent confusion that ensued, an advance guard of rebel troops emerged in the capital and partnered up with the Haitian police. In tandem, they patrolled Port-au-Prince?s neighborhoods and cleaned the streets of Aristide?s armed, angry thugs, the chim?res, who for days had been terrorizing and murdering Haitian citizens in anticipation of a rebel assault. By Monday morning the joint rebel-police squads were finished, and Philippe rode triumphantly into Port-au-Prince in the back of a pickup as crowds chanted ?Libert?!? ?He is the second Toussaint L?Ouverture!? said fork-lift driver Andre Charles...
...Philippe was a day late. The Haitian rebel army leader had promised he?d arrive in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, February 29-his 36th birthday-to force President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. But early that morning, Aristide-realizing that not only the international community but his own police forces had abandoned him-resigned and hopped on a plane to Africa where asylum awaited...
Many soldiers in the main force of Haitian rebels seeking to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are armed with American M-1 and M-14 rifles given to Haiti in the 1980s. The turncoat militia - the Artibonite Resistance Front, formerly known as Aristide's loyal Cannibal Army - is hardly the first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons. Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed. Afghanistan In the 1980s anti-Soviet mujahedin got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti...
...tomb of Haitian strongman Amiot Metayer, who was murdered in September, can be found in the middle of a seaside slum in the city of Gonaives. His bust sits prominently under a white awning, accompanied by a photo of Metayer's cadaver with his eyes poked out. His heart had also been removed. The grave is surrounded by offerings of candles, a bottle of orange soda, a picture of the Virgin Mary and a bottle of rum. These days in Gonaives, Metayer's mourners have been making another kind of tribute to his memory: hunting down officials of the government...
...control half of the country. Mounting chaos and the threat of a bloodbath have increased pressure on U.S. to take action, but thus far the Bush administration has confined its efforts to the diplomatic front. TIME's Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett, who is covering the Haitian crisis, picks up the story in conversation with Time.com...