VIDEO - Protest of the opposition on February 5

Just one day before the term of President Michel Martelly the Haitian population doesn't know who will replace him. In the meantime, daily protests continue in the streets of the capital. Here is a video of the protest of the opposition on February 5.

Anti-government protests turned violent in the capital Port-au-Prince on February 5th, 2016. A violent mob stoned one ex-army man to death, just two days before President Michel Martelly was due to leave his office, leaving no elected successor, because the squabbled politicians of the country failed to complete the recent election process with a runoff. In last November, President Martelly re-instated the former army disbanded during Aristide's presidency. President Aristide disbanded the army in 1995 during his presidency in an attempt to end its dominance in the Haitian power game. The deceased was a former army captain named Neroce Ciceron, wearing a military outfit associated with a military group disbanded in 1995. He was a team member of the army group that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a US-backed military coup in 2004. Although Martelly had repeatedly said, that the military would be revived to protect the border, coastlines and the country's few remaining forests, Neroce Ciceron was a part of the ex-military people who were rallying in support of both the outgoing President Michel Martelly and his hand-picked candidate Jovenel Moïse for the next presidential race. The protesters were angry with the army people. One of them said, the former military killed us in 2004. We are ready to fight them today.

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