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...reflected a calculated ploy to remove Aristide from office. Indeed, over the course of last week the Administration adopted an overtly antagonistic stance toward Aristide, even going so far as to issue a statement blaming him for the turmoil. There is also clear evidence that the many of the rebel leaders have in the past received CIA assistance and U.S. military training...
...there is reason to suspect that his government has violated civil liberties and perhaps engaged in some minor corruption. But these oft-voiced criticisms miss the point. Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected president, and the U.S. is now complicit in his overthrow by a motley rebel force led by documented human rights abusers...
...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...
...This week marks the fourth time since 1915 that U.S. Marines have been dispatched to Haiti. But as long as they have no mandate to protect Haiti?s streets-and with a U.N.-led international peacekeeping force still on the drawing board-the rebel-police partnership is the only thing keeping the dreaded chimeres from coming out of the woodwork again...
...Ambassador to Haiti James Foley warned the rebels that ?their credibility is entirely on the line? if they ignore their pledge to disarm. His concern is widely shared: A wide swath of the rebel army has links to some of the most brutal military abuses of Haiti?s recent past, including massacres of civilians committed during the three-year army dictatorship that aborted Aristide?s first presidency in 1991, until a U.S. intervention restored Aristide to power...