Host Moves To Silence Aristide

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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8886753%5E661,00.html

THE government of the Central African Republic was moving today to silence its difficult guest, ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but said it is not ready to expel him from the country.

"The government has instructed the foreign ministry and myself to once again go and point out to him that he has an obligation to be discreet that he must respect," government spokesman Parfait M'bay said following a cabinet meeting late last night to discuss what to do with Aristide.
"We are not however going to take away the telephone from him, nor oblige him to leave without consulting with the friends who asked us to welcome him."

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"All agents of the private press and the foreign press must go to the foreign ministry over any matter related to the stay of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, for better coordination and orientation," said a broadcast government statement.
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(but Aristide is a fighter and looks like he won't give up easily.)


"It's as clear as day. I demanded, on behalf of Haiti, the restitution of this debt, which was our right... They (the French) reacted by unkindness, resorting to persecution and a systematic campaign of disinformation, and by colluding in this political kidnapping," Aristide said in a phone conversation with French writer Claude Ribbe, of which AFP obtained a recording.

He added that he was "not the kind of person to stay in exile".


(notice how the press is kept away from him.)