US: Haiti Must Disarm Illegal Groups
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UNITED NATIONS - Haiti&#39;s interim government must disarm illegal groups to extend its control throughout the country and prepare for elections next year, the UN Security Council said Friday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's government and UN peacekeepers will launch a major campaign seeking to persuade hundreds of gangsters to disarm with promises of money, food, and job training, but top gang leaders will not be eligible, UN special envoy Edmond Mullet said yesterday. This is the most sweeping effort to persuade well-armed gangsters to stop violence since UN troops arrived ...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Enraged supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide armed themselves with machetes, guns, rocks, and bottles and roamed a downtown slum, threatening to behead foreigners after UN peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested dozens yesterday.
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A rebel leader said Tuesday that Haiti's U.S.-backed interim government must meet demands to rebuild the storm-devastated city of Gonaives or face a revolt like that which drove out President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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The United States urged all nonessential embassy personnel to leave Haiti, as fears of increased violence surged with supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand
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Nepali Maoists must show a fundamental change in their behavior and end violence and intimidation if they want Washington to take them off its list of terrorist organizations, the United States said on Friday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's U.S.-backed  government vowed on Friday to crush "terrorist" supporters of  exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as gunfire crackled in  the capital on the 10th anniversary of the end of a coup  against him.
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Former soldier and rebel leader Remissainthe Ravix holds up a poster of photos of alleged criminals during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004.
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Haitiâs American-backed government vowed to crush âterroristâ supporters of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as gunfire in the capital marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a coup against him.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan said they would give officials until Friday to meet their demands that the United Nations withdraw from the country and the US release Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum neighborhood yesterday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital.
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Human rights group Amnesty International called on US law enforcement agencies on Tuesday to suspend use of Taser electric-shock weapons, demanding an independent inquiry into the devices, which Amnesty says have contributed to more
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.    The failure of Haiti's U.S.-backed government to disarm the gangs that helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has created a climate of instability that further jeopardizes lives after the calamity Jeanne visited on Gonaives 10 days ago...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police launched a  hunt on Friday for rebel former soldiers accused of killing  four police officers, and Haiti's interim authorities said they  would crack down on the men they called bandits.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A radio ad urging   Haitians to reveal illegal weapons caches to the U.S. Embassy   has angered politicians and fueled debate on whether the   troubled Caribbean nation has become a tacit U.S. protectorate.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's prime minister on   Friday asked Washington to lift the 15-year-old arms embargo   that bars the troubled Caribbean country from buying U.S.   weapons for its ill-equipped police force.
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Spiralling political violence and looting in Haiti has overwhelmed UN peacekeeping forces and threatens to escalate further this weekend as former soldiers of the disbanded national army gather in the capital ready to take on street gangs loyal to the