Word: chamblain
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...rebel leader, convicted in absentia of taking part in mass murder, turns himself in. A big win for the rule of law? Not in Haiti. When Louis Jodel Chamblain handed himself over to Haitian police on April 22, it was 10 years to the day after the paramilitary squad he once helped direct massacred at least 15 people in the seaside slum of Raboteau. The victims, many of whom were tortured and made to lie in open sewers before being shot, were supporters of then Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a 1991 military coup...
Philippe has welcomed into his army troublesome figures like Louis-Jodel Chamblain. A former army officer, Chamblain was convicted in absentia in 1995 by a Haitian court for crimes that include participating in a 1994 massacre of at least 15 people while he helped head a paramilitary death squad that terrorized Aristide supporters after the 1991 coup. "Who hasn't made mistakes?" Philippe says with a shrug. "Now he is fighting for a good cause." Good or bad, it is already a cause soaked in blood. --With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington
...promote armed groups out in the streets to defend his government from its enemies. And that strategy is in many ways backfiring on him. Guy Phillipe, the most visible figure in the rebel front, used to be a police honcho. But other key figures, such as Louis Jodel Chamblain, are veterans of Fraph, a paramilitary organization created during the anti-Aristide military coup of 1991 (reversed in 1994 by U.S. intervention), whose function was to terrorize those sections of the population supporting Aristide. It's far from clear how extensive the rebels' organization is, and even what the political agenda...
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