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...officials at the Pentagon expressed concern that the country was slipping into chaos as violence between pro-Aristide forces and opponents continued. On Thursday an explosion near the seaport killed six bystanders and wounded at least 43, and on Friday, with U.S. troops standing by just blocks away, pro- junta gunmen fired on a rally of Aristide supporters; at least six died in the ensuing clashes. Meanwhile, in New York City, the U.N. Security Council voted to lift sanctions against Haiti, but the resolution will not take effect until President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns...
When Evans Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved...
...underscored the volatile state of affairs in the capital and the precariousness of American control, despite an overwhelming military superiority. On Friday hours of looting and a bloody street battle marred a democracy march marking the three-year anniversary of Aristide's ouster. As gunmen loyal to the military junta fired into the lines of marchers near the headquarters of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, dozens of militiamen armed with machetes and sticks fought viciously with Aristide supporters. By the end of the day, at least six had died and 20 more were...
...little violence that did arise was targeted not at the minions of the military junta, but its symbols. At the main army barracks in Cap Haitien, crowds stripped police and army buildings as if they were exorcising an evil spirit. For most of the week, bonfires fed by old arrest records and prison sentencing memos left a dull blue haze over the town's courtyards. Outside the home of the region's despised military commander, his band's tubas, trombones and horns were piled up to form a barrier in the middle of the street, then littered with thousands...
Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and General Philippe Biamby, the two Haitian coup leaders left after police chief Michel Francois fled Monday night, wept at the funeral for 10 junta "attaches" killed Sept. 24 in a 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...