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U.S. Lifts Arms Embargo on Haiti

HeadlineOct 21, 2004

The Bush administration has lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti which will allow opponents of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide to better arm themselves against Aristide loyalists. The State Department confirmed the decision on Tuesday. Anti-Aristide forces have fired on peaceful pro-Aristide demonstrators and rounded up well-known leaders of Aristide’s political movement, Lavalas. Last week the prominent pro-democracy priest Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste was detained while he was distributing food to hundreds of children and poor people at a church outside of Port Au Prince.

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