Guy Philippe

Guy Philippe ( * February 29, 1968 ) is a former officer and police chief and now rebel leaders in Haiti.

The toppled and geflohende former State President Dent Jean Bertrand Aristide was once Philippe conveyor. He sent him during his first term in 1991 with another young officer cadets for training at a military academy in the Ecuadorian capital Quito. The coup against Aristide and the rule of dictator Raoul Cedras experienced Philippe in Ecuador. He only returned to his homeland after the U.S. had Aristide in 1994 allowing the return from exile.

After Aristide disbanded the army, Philippe rose in the police force quickly. In 1995, he became the police chief of Cap Haitien. The break with Aristide took place in the parliamentary elections in May 2000. Allegedly Philippe had seen with his own eyes how the elections were falsified.

In October 2000, Philippe took off in the neighboring Dominican Republic. From this point on, he was blamed for various conspiracies and attempted coups in Haiti. Aristide claimed that Philippe was also active in the drug trade, but what this denied.

Philippe returned 14 February 2004 from the neighboring Dominican Republic state back to which he had fled in late 2000. Eight days after his return to Haiti with the help of his militia, he succeeded in taking from Cap Haitien, the second largest city in the country and then in Port-au -Prince. He forced so Aristide to flee Haiti. In this uprising, several hundred people were killed.

Philippe indicates himself that his political model of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.