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PM says Haiti in state of anarchy

Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune told local media on Wednesday that Haiti is now in the state of anarchy and the situations are not optimistic.

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Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune told local media on Wednesday that Haiti is now in the state of anarchy and the situations are not optimistic.

Reports quoted Neptune as saying that there is no parliament orpresident in Haiti at present, and government staff are all hidingaway.

Neptune admitted that although he still stays in office room, he can only move within a limited area.

Haitian rebels announced on Tuesday that Neptune be arrested before a crowd. But the plan failed because US Marines, who entered the violence-torn country as part of a multinational force,guarded his home.

Aristide resigned Sunday under mounting pressure from foreign nations, rebels and political opponents, and flew into exile aftera two-week rebellion that has wrecked the Caribbean nation.

According to Haiti's constitution, Supreme Court chief justice Boniface Alexandre assumed interim power after Aristide's exile, but never appeared in public since taking office.

By now, around 130 people have been killed since the crisis broke out in Haiti on Feb. 5.

Panel set up in Haiti to pick new prime minister

A three-person panel was set up on Wednesday to work closely with Haiti's interim president Boniface Alexandre, according to reports from Port-au-Prince.

The reports said the panel included opposition representative Paul Denis, a member of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Family party and the chief of the UN Development Program'sHaiti office, Adama Guindo.

The trilateral body will choose a seven- to nine-person councilof "wise men" to select a new prime minister and government.

The reports quoted opposition representative Denis as saying that Haiti's main priority is to form a government and fill the power vacuum created by Aristide's departure.

The power vacuum was the basic reason for the spiraling chaos in Haiti, he said, adding that the tense situation "worried us very much."

At least 10 people were killed in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday as violence erupted between Aristide supporters and the opposition.

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