Weekly Report - 10 February 2004
Insurrection breaks out in Haiti as opposition rebuffs Caricom
News that the Haitian opposition had rejected a Caricom-brokered meeting with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was eclipsed by the outbreak of open insurrection, starting in Gonaí¯ves and by now reportedly spreading to other urban centres. Spearheading the uprising are the members of the gang formerly known as the Armée Cannibale, recently transmuted into the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front (RARF) — probably nobody's favourite to succeed Aristide in power. The political opposition appears to have been taken by surprise.
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