With Aristide gone, Haitians left with chaos

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The man once dubbed the Haitian Mandela has left anarchy in his wake
By Gary Younge
THE GUARDIAN , PORT-AU-PRINCE
Wednesday, Mar 03, 2004,Page 9

Jean-Claude Bajeux, the director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights, and Aristide's former minister of culture

For the past few days the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has been growing accustomed to a gruesome ritual. As night falls the streets empty in fear of the wrath of the chimeres -- armed pro-Aristide gangs -- on looting and shooting sprees. As day breaks, people emerge to see where the bodies have been left. Corpses can lie here for days until someone clears them up.

"It costs 300 Haitian dollars," said a resident, Jocelyn, as she spread disinfectant outside Christ the King secretarial college on Saturday morning, where a body had lain for two days.

"I don't know who it is because they took all his money and papers," she said.

But on Sunday the sun rose to a new reality. The president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was gone, and, as word filtered out, the morning was punctuated by gunfire in the capital while others danced on the street in the rebel stronghold of Cap Haitien.

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