Five Haitian police suspected of summary executions
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Five policemen, including a town's commissioner, suspected of taking part in summary executions have been placed in solitary confinement by Haitian National Police administrators, a human rights group said Tuesday.
The five were accused of having killed late Saturday or early Sunday five young people aged 17-24 in their custody and of dumping their bodies in neighborhoods around the capital, said Aliazar Viles, an official at the National Coalition for the Rights of Haitians.
There had been a dispute between the youths, presumed supporters of the Lavalas Family of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, and the group of police, Viles said.
Aristide has been in Jamaica since his March 15 arrival from the Central African Republic, where he had stayed since leaving Haiti on February 29, in the midst of an armed uprising.
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