Ex-Soldiers Seize Home Abandoned by Aristide
About 100 former soldiers who had helped lead a revolt that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide seized his abandoned residence and said they would make it their headquarters.
Thumbing their noses at United Nations troops stationed nearby, the soldiers said they would use Aristide’s compound in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Tabarre to train a new military to replace the army disbanded a decade ago because of its proclivity for coups and human rights abuses.
Their leader, Remissainthe Ravix, said the group would conduct a voodoo ceremony to exorcise the ghosts of people he believed Aristide had killed.
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