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 | | The arrests came at the request of Wilfrid Thomas, a local grandon (large land-owner) who, according to Mouvement Paysan Marceline Saut-Mathurine Camp Perrin (MOPEMS), a peasant organization, originally stole the land from the peasants in 1985. |
 | | Thomas held onto it until the 1990 election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, when the peasants re-occupied it. |
 | | It is not a question of Wilfrid Thomas or whoever, it is a question of a person who owns land, and the Commissaire, a representative of society, confirmed that, to avoid thievery. |
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