Haiti Rebels Get Reinforcements ; Expatriates Arereturning to Aid Thegathering Insurgency Against Aristide.

The Washington Times › February 16, 2004

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Former military and paramilitary leaders who were ousted in the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti returned from exile in the Dominican Republic over the weekend to join a 10-day-old revolt aimed at toppling President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Rebel leader Buteur Metayer announced his alliance with Louis Jodel Chamblain, former co-leader of a paramilitary group called the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH), and Guy Philippe, a former military officer wanted by the government for a 2001 coup attempt.

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Haiti Rebels Get Reinforcements ; Expatriates Arereturning to Aid Thegathering Insurgency Against Aristide.

"What we're doing right now, it will happen all over the country. It hasn't started yet, but it will soon," Mr. Metayer told reporters in Gonaives, Haiti's fourth-largest city, located about 7...

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