Haitian conspirators hide in Dominican Republic: President Mejia

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Haitian conspirators hide in Dominican Republic: President Mejia

Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia said Wednesday that many conspirators against the Haitian government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are hiding in his country.

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Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia said Wednesday that many conspirators against the Haitian government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are hiding in his country.

"I said with complete honesty" that the Haitian border was hard to control and Aristide's opponents cross it to enter the Dominican Republic, Mejia was quoted in reports from Santo Domingo,capital of this Caribbean country, as saying.

Guy Philippe, Aristide's opponent and former police chief, and several armed men headed for Haiti from the Dominican Republic last week, the reports said.

Due to the violence unleashed this month in several Haitian cities, Dominican authorities have tightened controls on foreigners crossing the border and requested documentation when people transferring products. A market in the area bordering Haitiwas also closed Tuesday in face of the neighbor's escalating crisis.

Haitian Ambassador to Cuba Marie Constant said Tuesday the Dominican Republic hosted "half of the rebels" opposing Aristide and the rebels who attacked Haiti's Hinche city Monday.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of La Espanola, and more Haitians have crossed into the Dominican Republic in the wake of heightened violence in Haiti.

Haiti has been plunged into the ongoing turmoil since Feb. 5 when the armed members of the opposition Resistance Front seized the country's fourth largest city of Gonaives in order to force Aristide to step down.

The violence spread as other opposition groups followed the suit and took other cities by force. The clashes between the government forces and opposition fighters have left dozens of people dead and many more injured.

An inter-agency UN mission has been sent to Haiti to assess thehumanitarian situation in the country.

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