Reply #134: New Article via AP: Aristide Begins Exile in African Nation [View All]

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=734&e=1&u=/ap/20040301/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/aristide_exile
Aristide Begins Exile in African Nation
By JOSEPH BENAMSSE, Associated Press Writer

BANGUI, Central African Republic - A haggard Jean-Bertrand Aristide spent his first day in hastily arranged exile in Africa on Monday after rebels forced him from power as Haiti's first elected president.

Aristide, his wife and a few companions landed just after daylight in the Central African Republic, a nation as impoverished and nearly as coup-prone as the one he left.
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"Aristide is not a prisoner in the Central African Republic," Foreign Minister Charles Wenezoui, who greeted the ousted leader upon his arrival at Bangui's airport this morning, told The Associated Press.
"He is a free man, and the heavy security measures around the presidential palace are for his own security," Wenezoui said.
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"For his own security"- sure...