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Original Post Date: 2004-03-01 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/1/2004 6:40:55 AM
S.Africa: Aristide on way to "exile in SA"
Bangui – Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide arrived in the Central African Republic on Monday a day after he stepped down under international pressure after a three-week uprising in the poor Caribbean country that left scores dead.
Aristide and his wife were to stay in the Central African Republic for a few days before heading into exile in South Africa, according to an official from the republic’s state protocol department.
The couple arrived at Bangui’s M’Poko airport aboard a Haitian civilian aeroplane and was greeted by communications minister and government spokesman Parfait M’bay.
They were immediately escorted into a VIP area at the airport for talks with M’bay, the minister responsible for foreign affairs Guy Moskit and armed forces chief Antoine Bamdi.
‘My resignation will avoid bloodshed’
The embattled president resigned on Sunday under international pressure after mounting trouble and insurrection had left scores dead.
“My resignation will avoid bloodshed,” Aristide, the firebrand former Roman Catholic priest in the Port-au-Prince shanties said in a farewell statement, read by Prime Minister Yvon Neptune.
The president’s departure sparked a rampage through the streets of Port-au-Prince by angry pro-Aristide gangs armed with guns and machetes. At least 12 deaths and many more injuries were reported.
Widespread looting targeted warehouses and banks. Some people ran through the streets carrying suitcases of banknotes. But a dusk-till-dawn curfew appeared to be holding with just sporadic firing into the night.
Aristide’s constitutional successor, Supreme Court chief Boniface Alexandre, 68, urged an end to the violence that has left scores dead since former members of the Haitian armed forces began a revolt more than three weeks ago in the northern city of Gonaives.
Meanwhile United States Marines were arriving early on Monday to launch an international force to restore order after Aristide flew out of the capital, under pressure from rebel forces and abandoned by the international community.
A Marine contingent took up combat positions at Port-au-Prince airport just before the United Nations Security Council authorised the deployment of a multinational force in Haiti for up to three months.
The US was to send up to 500 troops, according to a US defence official with 200 Marines in the initial deployment. France said it would dispatch 200 troops from bases in the French Caribbean and a hundred gendarmes.
Canada said it would also contribute. Its troops were at Port-au-Prince airport on Sunday to organise an evacuation of Canadian nationals. – Sapa-AFP
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…br>