Security & Strategic Review - February 2004
Former military & paramilitary exiles return to join rising against Aristide
The nature of the uprising in Haiti has changed radically in only two weeks. In the first phase it was a small, ill-disciplined and patchily armed group of former pro-Aristide gunmen who seized Gonaïves, the country's fourth-largest city — and actions elsewhere were of a similar nature. The fact that the government was unable to reestablish full control paved the way for the second phase, led by former members of the military and allied paramilitary groups returning from exile...
The nature of the uprising in Haiti has changed radically in only two weeks. In the first phase it was a small, ill-disciplined and patchily armed group of former pro-Aristide gunmen who seized Gonaïves, the country's fourth-largest city — and actions elsewhere were of a similar nature. The fact that the government was unable to reestablish full control paved the way for the second phase, led by former members of the military and allied paramilitary groups returning from exile...
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