Guy Philippe

Guy Philippe (born February 29, 1968 ) is a former officer and police chief and was a rebel leader in Haiti .

Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide , who fell and fled, was once Philippe's sponsor. During his first term in 1991, he sent him with other young officer candidates for training at a military academy in the Ecuadorian capital Quito . Philippe experienced the coup against Aristide and the rule of dictator Raoul Cédras in Ecuador. He only returned to his homeland after the USA made it possible for Aristide to return from exile in 1994.

After Aristide disbanded the army , Philippe rose quickly in the police apparatus. In 1995 he became the police chief of Cap Haitien. The break with Aristide occurred in the parliamentary elections in May 2000. Allegedly, Philippe saw with his own eyes how the elections were falsified.

In October 2000 Philippe settled in the neighboring Dominican Republic . From that point on, he was held responsible for various conspiracies and coup attempts in Haiti. Aristide claimed that Philippe was also involved in drug trafficking, which he denied.

Philippe returned on February 14, 2004 from the neighboring state of Dominican Republic , to which he had fled at the end of 2000. Eight days after his return to Haiti, with the help of his militias, he succeeded in taking Cap Haitien , the second largest city in the country, and then Port-au-Prince. He thus forced Aristide to flee Haiti. Several hundred people were killed in this uprising.

Philippe himself states that his political role model is the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet .

See also

• History of Haiti

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flunk.de
2. ↑ University of Kassel