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

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

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

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Philippe Biamby". TRIAL Watch. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Coup Leader's Mother on Hunger Strike to Protest Son's Detention". AP News.
  3. 1 2 3 "POWER IN THE SHADOWS IN HAITI". The Washington Post.
  4. ↑ Keating, Joshua E. (March 29, 2012). "Foreign Policy: Trained in The U.S.A." NPR.
  5. ↑ 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]
  6. ↑ Reding, Andrew. "Democracy and Human Rights in Haiti" (PDF). Internet Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Des funérailles pour bientôt". Le Nouvelliste. December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Décès du général de brigade Philippe Biamby". Radio Kiskeya.


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