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Weekly Report - 12 April 2018 (WR-18-14)

HAITI: Military appointments stoke controversy

President Jovenel Moïse has installed the high command of the recently restored armed forces (FAd’H). Moïse, who assumed office in February 2017, had made clear his plans to re-establish the Fad’H, which was disbanded in 1994 by former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1991; 1994-1996; 2001-2004). His proposal had already triggered concerns among civil-society groups given the FAd’H’s parlous human rights record and his choices of officials for the new posts have done little to assuage these fears.

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