The aftermath of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his murderous regime's end - February 29-March 3, 2004 |
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A woman tries to collect water from a street in Jacmel, 50 miles
southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday March 3, 2004. Jacmel quickly formed a 12
man comission of respected community leaders to urge calm and restore order after
President Jean Bertrand Aristide left. It worked, and this seaside resort town escaped the
violence that shook much of the country. AP Photo/Pablo Aneli). |
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Agronomist Gerald Mathurin, right, and Jacques Khawly, left, President of
the Chamber of Commerce, both voluntary citizens for the civil commission, talk in Jacmel
50 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday March 3, 2004. Jacmel quickly
formed a 12 man comission of respected community leaders to urge calm and restore order
after President Jean Bertrand Aristide left. It worked, and this seaside resort town
escaped the violence that shook much of the country. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli). |
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Members of the Chilean army's special forces stand in line as they wait
to board a plane to fly to Haiti and join the international peacekeeping force in nation,
in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, March 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) |
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Members of the Chilean army's special forces board a plane to fly to
Haiti and join the international peacekeeping force in the troubles Caribbean nation, in
Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Mar, 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) |
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A woman walks past graffiti along a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Wednesday March 3, 2004. (AP PHOTO/Tom Hanson, CP) |
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U.S. soldiers patrol a street near the presidential palace in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Wednesday, March 3, 2004. Haiti's key rebel leader promised
Wednesday his forces would lay down their arms after 1,000 U.S. Marines began patrolling
the impoverished capital to restore order and prepare for the arrival of international
peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Tom Hanson) |
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U.S. marines take their positions as they secure the road while patroling
the streets around the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Wednesday March 3,
2004. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson, CP) |
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A woman carries a stolen television on her head in downtown,
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday February 29, 2004 as heavy looting spread through the area.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and flew into exile Sunday, pressured by foreign
governments and a bloody rebellion. (AP Photo/Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times) |
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A supporter of former Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates in the
streets of Montreal against Aristide exile on Sunday. (CP/Francois Roy) |
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Jean-Francois Philippe, a news announcer with Haitian community radio station Radio
Soleil D'Haiti based in the Brooklyn borough of New York, reads updates on Sunday, Feb.
29, 2004, on Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's resignation and flight from the
island nation. Many Haitians living in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood were angered at
the bloody rebellion and forceful removal of Aristide. (AP Photo/Dean Cox) |
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A man identifying himself as a rebel patrols the street of Petion Ville, in the
outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide jeer at a man identifying
himself as a rebel in civilian clothes in Petion Ville, in the outskirts of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) |
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A City of Miami police officer points to a supporter of Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide as a supporter of the rebel forces in Haiti passes by in his car,
shouting anti-Aristide slogans, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, in the Little Haiti section of
Miami. Aristide resigned and fled the country bowing to pressure from a bloody rebellion
at home and governments abroad. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) |
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A wounded alleged loyalist of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is carried by residents
of Petion Ville, in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP
Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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Gen. Raoul Cedras is seen in this October 1991 photo. Cedras, who helped drive a
military coup that pushed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of power in 1991, was
granted safe haven by the Panamanian government in 1994, permitting Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's return to power. Panama's president Mireya Moscoso said Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004,
that she would consider granting asylum to Aristide, who fled Haiti after rebel forces
threatened to attack the capital unless he resigned. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) |
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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, left, enters a U.S. government plane en
route to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in this Oct. 15, 1994 file photo. President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide resigned and flew into exile Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004 pressured by foreign
governments and a bloody rebellion. Gunfire crackled as the capital fell into chaos, and
Washington dispatched Marines. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel, file) |
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A supporter of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide cries outside the presidential
palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after his departure Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP
Photo/Rodrigo Abd) |
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Rebel leader Guy Philippe reacts after news of Aristide's departure reached northern
Cap Haitien, Haiti, Sunday Feb 29, 2004.(AP Photo/Pablo Aneli). |
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Two Dominican special force soldiers take position at the Mal Paso border crossing
with Haiti in Jimani, 175 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Sunday,
Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez) |
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People carry looted goods through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from the country, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP
Photo/Walter Astrada) |
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