US accused of training Haitian rebels in Dominican Republic
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/30/content_1390551.htm
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2004-03-30 06:26:33
HAVANA, March 29 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States armed and trained in
the Dominican Republic the groups that rose against former Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a preliminary report issued in the
Dominican Republic indicated Monday.
This provisional conclusion was reached by the Investigation
Commission on Haiti, formed by religious persons and lawyers of several
nations and created in 1991 by the former US Secretary of Justice Ramsey
Clark.
"200 soldiers of the US Special Forces arrived in the Dominican
Republic, with the authorization of Dominican President Hipolito Mejia, as
a part of the military operation to train Haitian rebels," declared the
commission when unveiling the report in the Dominican capital Santo
Domingo.
Priest Luis Barrios and lawyer Briant Concannon, both members of the
"independent" commission, presented the preliminary results of the
investigation that contradicted the Dominican authorities which had
previously considered "surrealistic and oneiric" the delivery of US guns
to Haitian rebels in their national soil, as some accusations stated.
The report said that Aristide reiterated to the commission he "had not
resigned to the presidency of Haiti and was kidnapped last March 1 by the
government of the United States" to remove him of power in the face of the
rebel insurrection.
A member of the commission, Teresa Gutierrez, wondered "how the rebel
leaders could train and arm in the Dominican Republic if the government of
Mejia assured several times to his Haitian counterpart Aristide that he
would tolerate no guerrilla movement" in his territories.
Barrios said at a press conference that the commission had a
"countless number of reports" proving that the Haitian rebels were armed
and trained in Dominican military camps located in the eastern locality of
San Isidro and the western regions of Haina and Neiba.
They also mentioned that rebel Guy Philippe was detained twice but
"immediately released" in the Dominican Republic, in December 2001 and May
2003, while the insurgent leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain "was photographed"
disguised as a Dominican police.
The most scandalous case was the release of the Haitian rebel Jean
Robert after his followers kidnapped 16 Dominicans to demand,
successfully, his liberation despite his connections to the murder of the
two Dominican soldiers in the northwestern province of Dajabon on Feb. 14.
The commission that interviewed Aristide in the Central African
Republic, where he went into exiled after he "resigned," will present the
definitive report to the US Congress, the Dominican government, the
Organization of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Community and
Common Market (Caricom), which has not recognized yet the new Haitian
regime.
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