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Haiti Death Squad Leader Louis Jodel Chamblain Released From Jail

HeadlineAug 15, 2005

The interim Haitian government has released death squad leader Louis Jodel Chamblain from prison. Chamblain is the former head of the paramilitary group FRAPH, the Front for the Advancement of Progress of the Haitian People. The group killed some 3,000 people in the early 1990s following the 1991 coup of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Chamblain had been in jail since April 2004. He has been convicted several times on murder charges but the convictions were later thrown out by new Haitian government. In other news from Haiti, 29 members of Congress have joined with Congresswoman Maxine Waters in calling for the release of Haitian priest Gerard Jean-Juste. He has been in jail since July 21.

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