The word we are getting, however, from inside (second and third hand) Western diplomatic sources estimate that they do not number more than Philippe is a former army lieutenant and police captain. The front’s The group’s strongman is Louis Jodel Chamblain, a former military general "We’re very concerned about the reappearance of these people," said Even after Aristide returned to power, both Philippe and Dragon were They and 10 other officers soon took on the name "Latinos," because Egads! An "Ecuadorian Connection". However, Unfortunately, In fact, it appears that the drugged out remnants of the recently abolished from the The story from Haiti gets stranger and stranger. We still haven’t located any authentic Haitian bloggers. One interesting lead was John Engle, an American who WAS blogging from Haiti until Tuesday, when he and his family quite sensibly bailed. The … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hateee.jpg\")
The story from Haiti gets stranger and stranger. We still
\n haven’t located any authentic Haitian bloggers. One interesting
\n lead was John Engle<\/a>, an American who WAS blogging from Haiti until Tuesday,
\n when he and his family quite sensibly bailed. <\/p>\n
\n and outside of Haiti, is that the "Rebels" and their leader, Guy Phillippe,
\n are Very Bad Men, in the
\n voudou-drenched
\n Duvalier
\n tradition,
\n and represent the worst sort of virulent strain of Latin American military
\n dictatorship we had hoped had been forever eradicated from the American
\n continent. According to the Boston
\n Globe<\/a>, they make up in viciousness
\n what they lack in numbers:<\/p>\n\n
\n 300 men. But rebel leaders claim to have recruited scores of new members
\n since the uprising began Feb. 5, despite their reputations in Haiti
\n as brutal soldiers and policemen, drug traffickers, and death squad
\n leaders.<\/p>\n
\n second in command, Gilberto Dragon, is a former military officer and
\n police major. Both are cited on numerous government and diplomatic reports
\n for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking and racketeering.<\/p>\n
\n who later headed the FRAPH, which stands for Front for the Advancement
\n and Progress of Haiti, which specialists describe as a paramilitary group
\n responsible for murdering thousands of Aristide followers in the early
\n 1990s. The group’s systematic use of rape and torture as weapons sparked
\n the massive exodus of refugees that ultimately led to US military action.<\/p>\n
\n Joanne Mariner, Deputy Director of the Americas Division of Human Rights
\n Watch. "FRAPH was a paramilitary group that committed massacres,
\n extrajudiciary executions, that helped keep repressive control over
\n Haiti. Chamblain was essentially the operational leader, very much
\n involved
\n in the details, the actual abuses committed."<\/p>\n
\n part of the new police force. Philippe became the police chief of Cap-Haitien,
\n Dragon the commissaire of an important area in Port-au-Prince. Throughout,
\n they maintained their esprit de corps.<\/p>\n
\n they had trained together in Ecuador and spoke Spanish. Philippe fled
\n to the Dominican Republic in 2000 after he and several other Latinos,
\n including Dragon, were tied to a coup plot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n the Dowbrigade can testify first hand that the Ecuadorian Army’s Officer
\n Training Institute
\n includes no courses in "Running a Voudou Drug Gang".<\/p>\n
\n this is also a serious setback to the disarmament movement worldwide.
\n Under
\n President
\n Aristide
\n Haiti
\n joined a select list
\n of countries, mostly small island nations, which have abolished their
\n armies: Costa Rica, Dominica, Kiribati,Lichtenstein, Mauritius, Maldives,
\n Monaco, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, San Marino, St. Vincent and the
\n Grenadines,
\n Solomon Islands, and Western Samoa.<\/p>\n
\n Haitian army are part and parcel of this "Rebellion." Latest reports
\n from Port
\n au Prince
\n say the city is in the hand of drugged out criminals and armed bands
\n of wacked-out youths. Now, the Bush administration has just announced
\n that President Aristide should "leave the country". It
\n is starting to look more and more like an orchestrated campaign to get
\n rid of this one-time US ally who may have become an inconvenience to
\n an administration more interested in control than in conversation.<\/p>\n
\n Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"