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’We’d rather die than disarm’: Haitian ousted military

LES CAYES, Haiti, March 9 (AFP) - "I’d prefer to die in prison than disarm!" cried former Sergeant Jean Denis, who lost his army job in 1995 when then-president Jean Bertrand Aristide disbanded Haiti’s armed forces.

"I’m a military man, I’m a military man in my country. A military man is a military man until he dies," said Denis.

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