[Excerpt: The protest in favour of the ousted Haitian leader comes a year after he left the country for a life in exile.....Police first fired tear gas to try to disperse the demonstrators and then reportedly shot into the crowds.]
http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/americas/4306493.stm Last Updated: Monday, 28 February, 2005, 21:57 GMT Two killed in Haiti protest clash By Claire Marshall BBC News, Port-au-Prince Haitian troops fire tear gas in Port-au-Prince Police fired tear gas into the crowd Two people have been killed and several others injured after shooting erupted during a pro-Aristide march in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The protest in favour of the ousted Haitian leader comes a year after he left the country for a life in exile. Police first fired tear gas to try to disperse the demonstrators and then reportedly shot into the crowds. Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti after several months of protests and an armed rebel uprising against him. The crowd of several hundred supporters waved posters of the former leader and carried banners calling for his return as they marched through a pro-Aristide slum in Port-au-Prince. UN peacekeeping troops lined part of the route. As the crowd headed in the direction of the national palace they encountered a police roadblock. Explosive tensions The police first fired tear gas to try to disperse them. Then, according to witnesses at the scene, they shot bullets into the throng of people. One man was shot in the head. Refusing to let his body be removed by a UN ambulance, a group of people soon surrounded the corpse and draped it in the Haitian flag. A second body was taken by local residents into a nearby alleyway. This violence comes almost a year to the day after Mr Aristide was toppled. It shows the explosive tensions which still exist in Haiti between those who forced him out and those who want him back. enditem UNRESTRICTED ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
