The World - News from Aug. 12, 1988
Haiti’s Roman Catholic bishops condemned the military government of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, protesting killings and other human rights violations since a bloodless army coup in June. The statement by the 10-member Bishops Conference was the church’s first comment on politics since November, when rampages by vigilantes forced the termination of an election. The statement came after Haitian soldiers raided a Catholic rectory in the town of Grand Goave and arrested two members of a left-wing youth group accused of organizing protests against the expulsion of a Canadian priest, Father Rene Poirier, 54.
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