Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday that Caricom is demanding to know the truth with respect to the departure of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office on Sunday...
News Source: Trinidad Express
The Caricom query comes in the wake of a claim by the former president of TransAfrica, a group that monitors United States policy towards Africa and the Caribbean, that Aristide had been forced out by American forces now in Haiti.
Repeating what he has said on CNN, Robinson told the Express in a telephone hook-up that he had had a telephone conversation with a tired-sounding Aristide at around noon yesterday.
"It's a coup, it's a coup. I want the world to know!" Robinson said Aristide told him explaining that he had been "abducted at gunpoint by the United States soldiers" and forced to leave Haiti.
However American officials have denied the claim and in a short statement broadcast on the radio in Africa, Aristide made no mention of an abduction.
News Source: CARICOM SEEKS 'TRUTH'
