U.N. peacekeepers raid Haiti’s largest slum

Gun fights broke out when over 500 U.N. peacekeepers rushed a massive slum outside of Haiti’s capital earlier today. The raid in Cite Soleil may have caused at least one fatality though its aim was to curb violence by local gangs. According to a U.N. spokesman the raid in Cite Soleil was the biggest since troops were deployed there after the coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristede in 2004.

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Image- haitiaction.net (2005 photo of a U.N. outpost in Cite Soleil)