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Remobilized Soldiers March on the Capital Exchange Gunfire with Police
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- Created on Saturday, 19 May 2012 09:07
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Government orders to disband were ignored as hundreds of former and would-be soldiers marched through the capital on Friday. The march ended with an exchange of gunfire with police and shots of tear gas from United Nations peacekeepers.
Boy Rescued at Sea Graduates from U.S. Coast Guard Academy
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- Created on Friday, 18 May 2012 09:21
NEW LONDON, USA (defend.ht/NPR) - Orlando Morel was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard in the waters off the Florida coast when he was a 6-year-old Haitian refugee. Now 24, he's headed back to Haiti for a tour of duty after graduating from the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, USA.
Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Attack
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- Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:33
WASHINGTON D.C. (defend.ht) - U.S. Army Specialist Junot M.L. Cochilus of the 7th Engineer Battalion out of Fort Drum New York, died from injuries last week when an improvised explosive device detonated in the Logar province of Afghanistan.
Haiti government to compensate former military
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- Created on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:54
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)-The Haitian government on Wednesday began to register hundreds of veterans so they can receive pensions and back pay but the effort fell short of trying to remove an armed rogue force from several old bases as its leaders clamor for the return of a military.
Haiti-Police-Strike: Disciplinary measures planned against the strikers
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- Created on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:28
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- The Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Michel Brunache, and the Director General of the National Police of Haiti, Mario Andresol (photo), raised the possibility of punishing the police strike of April 23 under the principles of ethics.
Haiti: Gunmen in Military Fatigues Arrive in Jacmel, Southeast
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- Created on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:36
JACMEL, Haiti (defend.ht) – A group of men and women, armed and in military fatigues arrived on Tuesday at midday in the town of Jacmel and paraded in several streets of this southern city, located 86 km from Port-au-Prince.
Haiti: Ban on Transporting Livestock and Humans Together
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- Created on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:10
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The head of the Directorate of Traffic and the Traffic Police, the Divisional Commissioner Will Dimanche, informed that as of Monday, April 9, it is illegal for drivers of transit vehicles to transport passengers along with goods and livestock.
Haiti 16/6: MINUSTAH Begins Rehabilitation of Charlemagne Peralte Road
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- Created on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 11:46
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Scheduled to last three months, the work being done by the Military Engineering of Chile and Ecuador (CHICUENGCOY) of MINUSTAH is to rehabilitate the Charlemagne Peralte road as part of the 16/6 project operated by the United Nations Office for Project Support Services (UNOPS).
Haiti: Remobilized Soldiers Removed from Public Building in Saint Marc
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- Created on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 20:21
SAINT MARC, Haiti (defend.ht) - After police intervention, demobilized soldiers stationed in St. Marc were forced to leave Monday night a building they had occupied for the past weekend, at the southern entrance of the city.
Former Rebel Guy Philippe Rallies Soldiers in the Central Plateau
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- Created on Monday, 02 April 2012 22:03
HINCHE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Former Rebel Guy Philippe has traveled from a rally in the North to one in the Central Plateau and over the weekend joined a group of remobilized soldiers of the Armed Forces of Haiti (FAdH) in the town of Hinche.
Haiti: Former Soldiers and Lavalas Rally in Cap-Haitien
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- Created on Friday, 30 March 2012 12:26
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (defend.ht/Radio Kiskeya) - In Cap-Haitien supposedly demobilized soldiers and Lavalas sympathizers were in the streets, the military made a scene of a parade led by Guy Philippe and a demonstration of Aristide supporters was under the leadership of Senator Jean-Charles Moïse - on the occasion of the anniversary of the constitution: some demanded the restoration of the army while the other went to war against Martelly.
Haiti: Remobilized Soldiers by the Hundreds Demand Respect for the Constitution
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- Created on Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:01
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (defend.ht) - At the initiative of the head of armed men in the north, Marcel Daniel, along with individuals in olive green military uniforms, accompanied by former rebel Guy Philippe and Senator Jean-Charles Moise, the remobilized took to the streets with a demonstration that grew to the hundreds and demanded respect for the constitution.
Haiti: Police Chief Rejects Proposal by Justice Minister to Resign
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- Created on Monday, 26 March 2012 16:25
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The outgoing Minister of Justice, Michel Brunache, reportedly proposed Friday, March 23 to the national police chief, Mario Andresol, to resign seeking an "honorable exit", according to sources close to the police.
Haiti: "Army or Death", Remobilized Soldiers Voice Determination
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- Created on Monday, 26 March 2012 14:53
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (defend.ht) - The leader of a detachment of remobilized soldiers of the Haitian army in the north defied calls to leave public spaces over the weekend and has voiced the committment of former soldiers to reinstate the Haitian Armed Forces by saying, "army or death."
Several Hundred Parade with Former Haitian Soldiers
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- Created on Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:45
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (defend.ht) - Former soldiers of the Haitian army paraded the streets of Okap on Friday to the applause of several hundred supporters who were mobilized following news of an imminent intervention of the police who would seek to expel these men in uniform from the department agricultural office.
Haiti-Army: “We are ready to defend ourselves”, declare former Soldiers
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- Created on Friday, 23 March 2012 17:52
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The demobilized Armed Forces of Haiti’s spokesman called "idle words" the request of the Minister of Justice to the national police to evict the former soldiers who occupy barracks and train in various parts of the country since the fall of 2011.
Haiti: State Sec. Delva sees Opportunity in Remobilized Forces
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- Created on Friday, 23 March 2012 06:24
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Secretary of State for Public Security, Reginald Delva, is seeking a resolution to make use of the remobilized soldiers whose numbers increased throughout the country last week. Delva proposed an agreement that would not force them to leave old bases.
U.N. Mission says Ready to Intervene with Remobilized Haitian Army
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- Created on Friday, 23 March 2012 06:22
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Chief Information Officer for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Eliane Nabaa, indicated on Monday that peacekeepers are ready to intervene to disarm and/or dislodge groups that have been occupying several old facilities once used by the Armed Forces of Haiti, disbanded since 1995.
Haiti: Disbanded Soldiers Take Position at Agriculture Office in North
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- Created on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:26
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (defend.ht) - Several dozen soldiers of the disbanded Haitian army took positions on Monday at a local office of the Department of Agriculture in the Northern city of Cap-Haitien.
Haiti : Demobilized Military Forces Increase Numbers, Continue to Train
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- Created on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:27
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Former military bases are still occupied and men in military fatigues continue to train. According to reports, far from preparing to depart, their numbers would be even be stronger.
