The Port-Au-Prince newspaper, Le Nouveliste, has reported that part of last month’s agreements reached between Haitian President Rene Garcia Preval and his Dominican counterpart Joaquin Balaguer was the arrest and/or deportation of ex-officials of past Haitian military governments who supposedly have been planning an operation of “de-stabilization” of the current government in Port-Au-Prince. According to the D.R.’s newspaper Hoy, Michel Kebreaux, an ex-colonel in the Haitian army, was deported on 17 April, yet his destination after leaving Las Americas International was unknown. Hoy also reports that the former chief of police under the regime of General Raoul Cedras, Michel Francois, and the ex-mayor of Port-Au-Prince during the same government, Frank Romain, have asked for political asylum at the Honduran embassy in Santo Domingo for fear of being arrested by the Dominican authorities. Le Nouveliste has also said that the ex-Haitian president Henri Namphy (1986-1988) and William Regala, whose whereabouts have been unknown for more than a year, will also be detained, although by 19 April no such arrests had been reported.
According to other publications in Haiti, there are rumors that several members of the military regime of Gen. Cedras (1991-1994), together with elements of the two Duvalier dictatorships, have been planning clandestine operations against Mr. Garcia Preval’s government from the D.R. in an area close to the Haitian border. Those rumors were again reported in Hoy’s 17 April edition.
19 April – 2 May 1996