Welcome to the Foire d'Opinions Haitiennes forums.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
Upcoming Events for the Next 3 Day(s) Private calendar events are seen only by member who owns calendar
Nouvelle Opération d'appréhender Guy Phillippe: Ex-chef rebelle n'a pas été retrove
Haïti-USA-Lutte contre la drogue
Nouvelle opération à Pestel en vue d'appréhender l'ex-chef rebelle anti-Aristide Guy Philippe
L'ex-chef rebelle n'a pas été retrouvé
mardi 25 mars 2008,
Des commandos étrangers, vraisemblablement américains, lourdement armés, arrivés à bord d'au moins 4 vedettes, ont débarqué tôt mardi matin (aux environs de 1 heure) à Pestel (Grande-Anse, Sud-Ouest) en vue de procéder à l'arrestation de l'ex-chef rebelle anti-Aristide Guy Philippe.
Le leader du Front de Reconstruction Nationale (FRN), ex-commissaire de police, ex-candidat à la présidence en 2006, n'a pas été retrouvé et les commandos sont repartis bredouilles. Ils n'ont également procédé à aucune arrestation.
Toutes les personnes trouvées dans les parages de la résidence du leader du FRN ont été dans un premier temps menottées. De nombreuses maisons ont été perquisitionnées et leurs habitants ligotés pendant le déroulement de l'opération.
Le frère de Guy Philippe, le Dr Sénèque Philippe, trouvé en la résidence familiale des Philippe, a été sévèrement molesté. Le nommé Laplanche Joseph Junior, voisin des Philippe, s'est plaint d'avoir été légèrement atteint d'un projectile au bras. Des rafales d'armes automatiques avaient été en effet entendues dans les parages de la résidence de Guy Philippe au moment du déroulement de l'opération.
Sénèque Philippe et Laplanche Joseph soutiennent qu'un bébé et des adolescents ont été menottés au cours de l'opération. Les membres des commandos, s'exprimant en anglais, ont clairement demandé aux personnes interrogées de leur rendre Guy Philippe, ajoutent-ils.
Le correspondant sur place de Radio Kiskeya, Charles Emile Joassaint, a fait état d'un vent de mécontentement soufflant dans la population pestéloise, l'intervention des commandos étant perçue comme une violation flagrante de la souveraineté nationale.
L'opération aurait été menée exclusivement par des étrangers qui se seraient faits accompagner d'un seul agent de la Brigade de Lutte contre le Trafic des Stupéfiants (BLTS) de la Police Nationale d'Haïti, à titre d'interprète.
C'est la deuxième tentative infructueuse des services américains de lutte contre la drogue d'appréhender Guy Philippe. La première remonte à juillet 2007. [jmd/RK]
U.S. agency fails in new bid to arrest Haiti rebel
U.S. agency fails in new bid to arrest Haiti rebel
25 Mar 2008 20:13:00 GMT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed the rural Haitian home of former rebel leader Guy Philippe on Tuesday but the accused cocaine smuggler escaped for the second time in eight months.
About two dozen DEA, FBI and Haitian anti-drug agents searched for Philippe with helicopters, fast boats and vehicles in the early morning raid in the southern seaside town of Pestel, near Jeremie, local officials and witnesses said.
"They arrived in the middle of the night and they terrorized the population with heavy detonations and stormed people's homes," the mayor of Pestel, Lavillet Trezil, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"They handcuffed and brutalized several people as they searched house after house to look for Guy Philippe," said Trezil, who added he thought the operation was illegal. "Haiti is a sovereign country and as a mayor I was never informed."
The raid was the second attempt by DEA agents and Haitian anti-drug police to arrest Philippe, who is accused by U.S. justice officials of smuggling cocaine into the United States.
Philippe, a former military officer, police chief and unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2006, denies the drug charges. He was a leader of an armed revolt in 2004 that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president.
Philippe escaped a similar raid last July on his residence in the village of Bergeau, near Les Cayes.
In a recent phone interview with Reuters from a hiding place, Philippe claimed he was a victim of a plot by the United States and its allies to eliminate him.
"They have a plan to kill me because I stood for the rights of my people, not because I am involved in drug trafficking, because they know it is not true," Philippe said on his birthday on Feb. 29.
"If they knew I was really a drug trafficker, they would have arrested me a long time ago because I was always here going about my activities," he said.
"If I have to die, I will die with my head up, not down, and with the dignity and courage of a fighter."
Officials at the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince declined to comment. The U.S. attorney's office for the southern district of Florida, where the charges against Philippe were brought, according to media reports, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Report: Raid fails to capture Haitian rebel leader
Report: Raid fails to capture Haitian rebel leader
Posted on Tue, Mar. 25, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A group of unidentified armed men raided the home of a fugitive rebel leader but failed to capture him early Tuesday, local radio reported.
Guy Philippe was nowhere to be found when the English-speaking men arrived by boat to the remote southern peninsula town of Pestel, Haiti's Radio Kiskeya reported.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Port-au-Prince, said officials would not comment. U.N. peacekeepers said they were not involved.
Philippe, a former presidential candidate whose rebel band helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, is being sought in connection with a pending drug indictment in U.S. federal court. He evaded capture last year in a raid led by U.S. and Haitian authorities.
Shortly after the raid, Philippe told a local radio show in October that he was the victim of a political plot and dared U.S. agents to kill him.
Upcoming Events for the Next 3 Day(s) Private calendar events are seen only by member who owns calendar
U.S. agency fails in new bid to arrest Haiti rebel 
Linear Mode
Similar Threads 
