Rebels negotiate for role in Haiti's police force

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Rebel leader Guy Philippe, center, speaks with others rebels during breakfast at the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004.

Posted on Thu, Apr. 01, 2004



Rebels negotiate for role in Haiti's police force

BY PAISLEY DODDS

Associated Press


CAP HAITIEN, Haiti - The leader of rebels who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide held talks with police Wednesday over how the commandos could be integrated into Haiti's hapless police force.

French peacekeeping troops observed the closed-door talks between rebel leader Guy Philippe and Renan Etienne, the new police chief for northern Haiti, who said afterward that he was willing to accept some rebels into his force but not without a screening process.

Downstairs in a hotel lobby, a handful of fatigue-clad rebels sat drinking beer and fingering assault rifles, keeping apart from a dozen stone-faced police who recently returned to the force.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/8326112.htm

[Aidoneus]

1. those leaders should be swinging from streetlights

not jockeying for power..

[Moderator]

2. Locking, Dupe

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