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Latin American Weekly Report - 22 January 1982

HAITI/INVASIONS

The government has claimed that three rebels it said it captured during last week's exile invasions of the country (RC-82-01, WR-82-03) 'died of their wounds'. One of them, it said, was Richard Brisson, a prominent radio journalist who was among the score of dissidents arrested and deported in December 1980.


The Port-au-Prince daily Le Matin had said earlier that the three were under interrogation in the Casernes Dessalines military barracks in the capital. The government said last weekend that about a dozen rebels were still at large. Exile sources claimed that a third group of rebels landed on the south-western peninsula, near Port-a-Piment, and blew up an army truck. Washington expressed 'concern' about the invasions, but said the Duvaliers had not asked for US help. Bernard Sansaricq, political leader of the rebels who landed on the north coast, was rescued by the US coast guard after the boat carrying him and 24 guerrillas began to sink off north-west Haiti. Sansaricq, a Haitian-born naturalised American, was charged in Miami this week with violating US neutrality by the invasion bid.
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