Haitians fear that bloody uprising may not be over

BEFORE a raging fire, rebel fighters in this bleak western town offered metal scraps to a voodoo war god, portending still more violence for Haiti.

Although rebel leader Guy Philippe has pledged his fighters will disarm, many insist they will not give up their weapons until militant supporters of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide do the same.

Rebels who choose not to show their weapons in public openly admit they have stashed them. At a street corner where an offering of metal and herbs burned for Ogun Feray, the war god, reminders abound that Haiti's bloody uprising might not be over.