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<font face="verdana" size=4 color="#00007F">Crisis in Haiti Worsens with
Repressors Now On-stage<br>
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</a>Port au Prince, Feb 19 (PL) The alarmingly dangerous crisis in Haiti
has become even more critical with reports that convicted human rights
violators have returned from exile to challenge the government of Haitian
President Jean-Betrand Aristide. <a href="/article.htm">Haitian Crisis
Tops OAS Agenda</a> <br><br>
Both the level of violence and lack of basic supplies, especially in the
north and central parts of the country, are creating fears of a major sea
exodus by Haitians, who find refuge across the border into the Dominican
Republic closed to them.<br><br>
Ex chief of the paramilitary Front for Advancement and Progress in Haiti
under Duvalier, Louis Jodel Chamblain, in exile in the Dominican Republic
on charges of committing atrocities, along with ex military police chief
Guy Philippe and convicted mass murderer Jean Pierre Baptiste, have been
reported to have taken central Hinche, with plans to attack Cap-Haitien,
the second largest city in Haiti.<br><br>
CARICOM, the Caribbean Community of which Haiti is a member, proposed to
mediate the conflict with reforms including new parliamentary elections
to which Aristide agreed, but the opposition insists that he must resign,
to which he will not agree.<br><br>
Meanwhile US officials have been reportedly planning to set up a
temporary detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -where prisoners of the
Afghan and Iraqi wars are held- to hold any Haitians intercepted
attempting to reach the United States.<br><br>
The Haitians fleeing 12 years ago after the military coup overthrew
Aristide were detained to the strong protest of human rights groups at
that US violation of international laws granting refugees the right of
asylum.<br><br>
The Bush administration, disillusioned with Aristide´s rule, is
reportedly debating internally options for helping foster a switch of
leaders in Haiti.<br><br>
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