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...Philippe hardly seemed like a man about to order a bloodbath. Lounging poolside last week with his rifle-toting soldiers at a hotel above Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, the rebel army leader predicted an easy time overwhelming the capital, Port-au-Prince, which he threatened to attack unless President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned. "We'll take it within days if not hours," he told TIME. Aristide's fall, he insisted, would justify even the carnage his army's offensive would cause the hemisphere's poorest country. "Haiti has to pay something to bring back democracy," he warned...
Aristide got the chimeres to back off over the weekend. But the hellish anarchy swallowing the capital is a vivid sign that whatever government follows Aristide's isn't likely to be any more democratic. When Philippe, 36, served as Cap Haitien's police chief in the late 1990s, Colombian cocaine shipments flowed virtually unobstructed through its port, according to Haitian and U.S. officials--one reason that Haiti is now the largest narcotics transshipment center in the Caribbean. Philippe's ragtag militia, motivated by a hatred for Aristide, numbers only a few hundred men wielding old automatic rifles. But they...
...military coup aborted his first presidency in 1991. With 20,000 troops on the ground, Washington embarked on an effort many Haitians now characterize as a half-baked nation-building program that yielded little more than ill-trained, corruption-prone institutions, like the police force Philippe led in Cap Haitien. The U.S., Philippe says, "is partly responsible for what is happening...
...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti 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...
...legitimate support and how much is expressed by armed groups in the pay of the government. But it's pretty clear that when and if the rebels advance on the capital, it's going to get ugly. It won't be nearly as easy for them as capturing Cap Haitien and other towns, where they simply attacked the police station and put the police to flight, and could then claim they were in charge...