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According to WikiLeaks Haiti, Haitian business organizations and members of the country's elite used the Haitian police as their own private army after the 2004 coup D'Etat that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

This was based on secret US Embassy cable. It reported that Fritz Mevs told the Embassy that the president of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce, Reginald Boulos, had distributed arms to Haiti national police and had called on others to do so in order to provide cover to his own actions.

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According to WikiLeaks Haiti, Fritz Mevs asked the U.S. Embassy if the U.S. would oversee a program under which the private sector in Haiti could legally buy guns for Haitian National Police. Fritz Mevs did not trust either MINUSTAH or the Haitian National Police to properly control the issuance of weapons.

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