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gulfnews.com
April 9, 2018
1999 Niger President Ebrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated at Niamey airport. 2003 US forces take control of Baghdad, ending Saddam Hussain's rule over Iraq. 2005 Haitian police shoot and kill Remissainthe Ravix, a prominent rebel leader. 2006 A capsule carrying Brazil's first astronaut, along withÃâà...
Jamaica Observer
April 9, 2018
2005: Haitian police shoot and kill Remissainthe Ravix, a prominent rebel leader who helped force former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile the previous year. 2006: Australia's foreign minister denies UN accusations that his department was involved in alleged kickbacks paid by the country'sÃâà...
London Review of Books
February 15, 2007
There are plenty of things that were happening at the time that only recently have started to come to light. PH: You mean things like the eventual public admissions, made over the past year or so by the rebel leaders Remissainthe Ravix and Guy Philippe, about the extent of their long-standing collaborationÃâà...
HaitiAction.net
May 27, 2005
The 11 year-old sat shaking on the table at St. Joseph's Hospital in the Bois Verna district of Haiti's capital. The bandages on his small back could barely contain the bleeding from the two gunshot wounds he received from a Haitian police revolver an hour earlier. Elionord Gilles was brought in with anÃâà...
BBC News
April 11, 2005
Haitian police have killed a prominent rebel leader in a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Ravix Remissainthe was one of the key figures in a three-week uprising that ousted former President Jean-Bernard Aristide. Ravix was wanted by police in connection with the murder of four officers in February andÃâà...
St. Petersburg Times
December 22, 2004
"The security problem cannot be dealt with by the U.N. alone," said their leader, Remissainthe Ravix, standing in the driveway in full military fatigues and brandishing a gold-plated sword. "The U.N. needs our help." The United Nations wasted no time turning down that offer. By week's end Ravix and 50 ofÃâà...
BBC News
December 17, 2004
A group of former soldiers who helped overthrow the Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide earlier this year have taken over his abandoned home. One of the group's leaders, Remissainthe Ravix, said they would make the building their headquarters in the capital, Port-au-Prince. But the governmentÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
December 3, 2004
"If the government doesn't take responsibility, we will take it," said former Army Sgt. Remissainthe Ravix. "If they give us the order, in three days we'll clear Bel Air (a Port-au-Prince slum) and Cite Soleil of bandits." Junior Joseph, a 25-year-old artist from the downtown slum of Martissant, fears Haiti isÃâà...
BBC News
October 13, 2004
On Wednesday, rebel commander Remissainthe Ravix told the Associated Press news agency that ex-soldiers were converging on Port-au-Prince from around the country. "We see Lavalas gangsters [militias loyal to Mr Aristide] shooting parents as they take their children to school, stores can't open, lifeÃâà...
