22526: (Chamberlain) Haiti-Politician Arrested (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

   By AMY BRACKEN

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 27 (AP) -- Haiti's former prime minister was
detained Sunday on suspicion of orchestrating killings during the February
rebellion leading to the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
authorities said.
   Yvon Neptune was detained at his home in the capital, Port-au-Prince,
Police Chief Leon Charles told private Radio Vision 2000.
   "There was no resistance," Charles said.
   An official of Aristide's Lavalas Family party, former legislator
Gilvert Angervil, said Neptune turned himself in because he knew
authorities were looking for him.
   Neptune is being held in connection with the February killings of
Aristide opponents in St. Marc, a northern port city where violence flared
during an armed rebellion that pushed Aristide from power and killed at
least 300 people.
   Neptune is the highest-ranking official to be detained since Aristide's
Feb. 29 departure.
   Lavalas officials claim party supporters are being killed by
anti-Aristide forces and accuse the U.S.-backed government of interim Prime
Minister Gerard Latortue of unfairly arresting several officials for
alleged corruption and killings.