In Gonaives and other cities, Haiti, violent protests,
peaceful protests, fast growing armed revolts, 'criminal Aristide must go,' murders and
burning since uncommonly chief bandit Jean-Bertrand Aristide brutally murdered his
notorious criminal Amiot Metayer - February 17-19, 2004 |
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| Rebel leader Louis Jodel Chamblin waves his hand while a rebel force he
commends patrols a street in the central town of Hinche, Haiti, Tuesday, February, 17,
2004. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) |
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| Louis Jodel Chamblain, right, is seen during a meeting on Nov. 23,1993 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Witnesses said about 50 rebels led by Chamblain descended Monday
Feb. 16, 2004 on a police station in Hinche and killed three officers before police fled
the city of 50,000, about 70 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince. Chamblain is a former
soldier who once headed the feared paramilitary group FRAPH _ the Front for the
Advancement and Progress of Haiti _ which killed and maimed hundreds of Aristide
supporters under military dictatorship between 1991 and 1994. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) |
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| A goup of policemen work at Cap-Hatien's police headquarters, Wednesday,
Feb 18, 2004. Frightened police barricaded themselves inside their station Wednesday,
saying they could not repel a threatened rebel attack on Haiti's second-largest city, the
last major government bastion in the north. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) |
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| Residents of Maissade, Haiti, dance in the streets after rebels
reportedly killed two policemen and burned out the police station after setting all of the
inmates free(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt) |
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| A rebel of the Gonaives Resistance Front patrols the slum neighborhood of
Raboteau in the city of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb.18, 2004. . (AP Photo/Walter
Astrada) |
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| Rebels of the Gonaives Resistance Front patrols in the slum neighborhood
of Raboteau in the city of Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter
Astrada) |
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| A rebel of the Gonaives Resistance Front, center, walks between
bystanders while patrolling in the slum neighborhood of Raboteau in the city of Gonaives,
Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004. Frightened police barricaded inside their station in the
northern city of Cap-Haitien said Wednesday they could not repel a threatened rebel attack
on their city, the last major government bastion in the north, as officers in other towns
deserted their posts with no guerrillas in sight. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| An anti-Jean-Bertrand Aristide protest in the town of Maissade, Haiti, as
an rebel keeps a close wacth, Tuesday, February 17, 2004 looks at proteste |
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| Viergeine, 8, cries during the funeral of her father, Fritzson Archelus, 24, in
Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004. Archelus died on Feb. 7 in the cross fire when
the police unsuccessfully tried to retake the city from rebels of the Gonaives Resistance
Front that started an uprising in the city on Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| People walk as a rebel of the Gonaives Resistance Front patrols Gonaives, Haiti,
Wednesday, Feb.18, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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| A Haitian man pushes a cart loaded with ice blocks on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, in
Dajabon, 186 miles of the northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Dominican
army cancelled an outdoor market Monday, Feb. 16, 2004, that usually unites merchants from
both sides of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez) |
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| An unidentified Haitian man and his son look at a Dominican soldier on Wednesday, Feb.
18, 2004, in Dajabon, 186 miles of the northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Suspicion and tension are rife in the desolate hills along the sparsely guarded border of
the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where bribes often buy free passage and armed Haitian
rebels have crossed to join a growing revolt. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez) |
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| A Dominican soldier snatches a bag of food from a Haitian citizen while another
soldiers look on, at the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in Dajabon, 186 miles
northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. Suspicion and
tension are rife in the desolate hills along the sparsely guarded border of the Dominican
Republic and Haiti, where bribes often buy free passage and armed Haitian rebels have
crossed to join a growing revolt. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez) |
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| Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Arisitide chants the National athen during a ceremony
conmemorating police victims in the latest confrontation with rebels in the National
Palace of Gouvernment , Port- au-Prince,Haiti. Thursday Feb 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Pablo
Aneli). |
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| Parents and relatives of police mourn their dead relatives during a ceremony to honor
slain police in the National Palace of Government, Port- au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb.
19, 2004. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli). |
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| Photos of recently killed Haitian policemen are on displayed at the presidential
palace in a ceremony to honor them, the victims of the uprising in some towns of the
north, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 19, 2004. (Reuters/Carlos Villalon) |
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| President Jean-Bertrand Arisitide and his wife Mildred Aristide attend a ceremony to
honor slain police at the National Palace in Port- au-Prince, Haiti Thursday Feb. 19,
2004. Aristide declared Thursday he was ready to die to defend his country, indicating he
would not resign as demanded by political rivals and a bloody rebellion in the north. (AP
Photo/Pablo Aneli). |
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