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</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=3><b>AHP News - February 18, 2004
(Unofficial)<br><br>
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</font><h5><b>Former members of the military Guy Philippe and Louis Jodel
Chamblain, who are leading the opposition coalition in Gonaïves announce
the reconstitution of the Haitian Army<br>
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</b></h5><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><b>Gonaïves, February 18,
2004-(AHP)- </b>Former member of the military Guy Philippe, who recently
took over the leadership of the armed opposition in Gonaïves together
with the leader of the FRAPH terrorist organization, announced this
Wednesday the reconstitution of the FAd'H (Armed Forces of
Haiti).<br><br>
Guy Philippe said that he joined the Platform of the 184 following,
notably, repeated requests made by opposition supporters along with
appeals made by media affiliated with the Platform and whose journalists
said they were threatened. <br><br>
The Armed Forces of Haiti were dissolved in 1994 with the return from
exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who had been overthrown
in a bloody coup d'état on September 30, 1991. <br><br>
The FAd'H and FRAPH are responsible for the deaths of more than 5,000
Haitians between 1991 and 1994. <br><br>
In a recent interview with the daily newspaper La Presse in Montreal, the
leader of the opposition political Platform, André Apaid, declared
that he was favorable toward the return of the Haitian army. <br><br>
Guy Philippe, who joined the camp of the 184 Platform Saturday,
accompanied by FRAPH leader Louis Jodel Chamblain, indicated that his
army will continue its attacks until the elected authorities are
overthrown. <br><br>
He pressed the international community to exert pressure on President
Aristide to leave power, otherwise blood will continue to flow, he said.
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Three police officers were killed in Hinche and a police station was
invaded and looted by opposition partisans in Belladères, following
the alliance between FRAPH and the Platform with former members of the
military. <br><br>
Prior to the the elections of December 16, 1990 that brought
Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, it had always been the Haitian army that
had granted or seized power in Haiti. <br><br>
Leaders of the opposition Platform which includes private sector
associations, human rights organizations, and private media organizations
and others, have until now still refused to condemn the abuses committed
by their partisans, led by criminal on the run Louis Jodel Chamblain and
fugitive from prison Jean Tatoune.<br><br>
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