Philippe Biamby
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Philippe Biamby (September 21, 1952[1] – December 13, 2008) was a member of the Haitian Armed Forces High Command, Chief of Staff of the Haitian Army and deputy of Raoul Cédras during the Haitian junta of 1991 to 1994.[1]
Early years[edit]
Philippe Biamby is a son of Ketly Biamby and Pierre Biamby,[2][3] an important official of the Duvalier Era.
He received infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia, between 1980 and 1985.[4]
Biamby in 1989 was expelled from the army after participating in a coup attempt against Prosper Avril. After the coup failed, he fled to the Dominican Republic and later traveled to the United States, where was he arrested for immigration charges.[3]
Haitian Junta[edit]
Biamby as Army Chief of Staff, helped topple Jean-Bertrand Aristide during 1991 Coup.[5]
During military junta, was member of Haitian Armed Forces High Command and right-hand man of Raoul Cédras. He was described as a hard-line anti-American.[3]
Later life[edit]
With the arrival of American forces in Haiti in September 1994, Biamby fled to Panama, where he was granted political asylum. A 1998 extradition request from Haiti was not granted.[1]
Philippe Biamby was indicted in 2000 for his connection to the Raboteau massacre and sentenced in absentia by a Haitian court on November 16, 2000, to life imprisonment.[6]
He died on December 13, 2008, because of cancer[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Philippe Biamby". TRIAL Watch. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013.
- ^ "Coup Leader's Mother on Hunger Strike to Protest Son's Detention". AP News.
- ^ a b c "POWER IN THE SHADOWS IN HAITI". The Washington Post.
- ^ Keating, Joshua E. (March 29, 2012). "Foreign Policy: Trained in The U.S.A." NPR.
- ^ Whitney, Kathleen Marie (1996). "Sin, Fraph, and the CIA: U.S. Covert Action in Haiti". Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas. 3 (2): 303–332 [p. 320]
- ^ Reding, Andrew. "Democracy and Human Rights in Haiti" (PDF). Internet Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2007.
- ^ "Des funérailles pour bientôt". Le Nouvelliste. December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022.
- ^ "Décès du général de brigade Philippe Biamby". Radio Kiskeya.
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