Rebels Take To Mountains
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) S.’-NTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic), Aug. 19. Rebel forces seeking to overthrow the Haitian dictator, Dr. Francois Duvalier, captured the mountain city of Mont-Organise but were driven out-in heavy fighting and are now conducting guerrilla warfare, a rebel communique said. It said the military garrison and civilian population of the city acclaimed the “liberation forces’’ with shouts of “Down with Duvalier. down with Tonton Macoute (his secret police), down with the dictatorship, down with the assassins.’’ The official spokesman of the rebel forces in exile, Mr Paul Verna, released the communique in Santo Domingo. He said rebel troops shot down a Haitian Air Force plane yesterday when it attacked a position they held in the mountains. The communique claimed that rebels had executed 100 members of the Tonton Macoute before they retreated into the mountains in the face of a heavy Government bombardment.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 6
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