[Excerpt: The area is the most dangerous slum in the capital, says the BBC's Claire Marshall in Port-au-Prince, and is a stronghold of support for the ousted Haitian leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.....The soldier's death underlines how unstable Haiti still is, our correspondent adds.]
http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/americas/4447097.stm Last Updated: Friday, 15 April, 2005, 04:55 GMT 05:55 UK UN peacekeeper shot dead in Haiti A United Nations peacekeeper from the Philippines has been shot dead in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The soldier was killed near the Cite Soleil slum, an area of the city where UN troops have clashed with gangs. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs described the death as a "great loss", but said it would not withdraw its peacekeeping contingent. The UN delegation is assessing the security situation in Haiti ahead of elections later this year. According to UN officials, the peacekeeper was killed as UN troops prepared to set up a checkpoint at the entrance to City Soleil, in an effort to control the movements of gang members. He is the third soldier to be killed since the UN mission in Haiti began a year ago. According to General Augusto Helenoribeiro, the Brazilian commander of the UN forces, the soldiers came under heavy gunfire, and they shot back. Militant groups The area is the most dangerous slum in the capital, says the BBC's Claire Marshall in Port-au-Prince, and is a stronghold of support for the ousted Haitian leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The soldier's death underlines how unstable Haiti still is, our correspondent adds. In a meeting with the visiting UN mission on Thursday, interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue asked council members for more international help in disarming the militant groups. Options said be under consideration by the Security Council delegation include plans to expand the peacekeeping operation to include more police and international observers for the elections. It has recommended that the mandate for its 6,700-strong peacekeeping mission be extended when it expires in June. The team also said urgent changes were needed in the justice system, which it said allows hundreds of prisoners to remain in jail for months without charge. enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/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: osint@yahoogroups.com 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/
