Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Haiti: Police supposedly fired upon by UN peacekeepers; major politician kidnapped

-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. Haiti’s national police accused UN peacekeepers of shooting and injuring two police officers in a dangerous slum outside Port-au-Prince. Nearly eight thousand UN peacekeepers have been in Haiti since the removal of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide in June 2004. Meanwhile, a senior official from Aristide's Lavalas Family party was kidnapped earlier this week. (Reuters)

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