Rebel: "We don't need peacekeepers....We need more guns!"

[Robb]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The aftershocks of President Jean Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti echoed from the streets of Port-Au-Prince to Washington, D.C., as rebels refused to fade into the background and accusations of a coup dogged American officials.

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Rebels who had promised to lay down their arms if their main demand - Aristide's resignation - was met, instead swaggered into the capital, hinting they were here to stay. They said they would just tolerate police and international peacekeepers, while enforcing their own kind of justice.

One young rebel standing outside the meeting freely told a reporter he had shot looters Sunday and predicted militant members of Aristide's Lavalas party would be executed.

``I shot some looters yesterday. They have to be shot,'' said the rebel, who goes by the nom-de-guerre ``Faustin.''

``There are some very minimal numbers of Lavalas who cannot be saved,'' said the fighter.

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Amnesty International called Monday for international peacekeepers to arrest rebel leaders Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a former death squad leader convicted of murders while he was in exile, and Jean Pierre Baptiste, also known as Jean Tatoune, who escaped from jail after being sentenced to two life sentences in the 1994 massacre of 15 Aristide supporters.

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[chelsea0011]

1. "As the Bush Administration Sleeps"

:shrug: :shrug:

Democracy fails, thugs rule, and the Bushies are lost as usual.


"What? Me Worry?"

[Bandit]

2. Believe me they are not sleeping

They are making sure that all traces of Aristide and Democracy are vanquished forever in Haiti. The Bush* Administration is quite culpable in all of this.