Former soldiers are filling power vacuum in Haiti
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PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti -- Dozens of soldiers in camouflage fatigues control security in this coastal city of 125,000 people. They carry automatic weapons, and their base is a former police headquarters with a freshly painted sign that reads, &quot;General Headquarters of the Haitian Armed Forces.&quot;
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U.N. troops, backed by armored vehicles and helicopters, fought their way into a lawless slum in the Haitian capital on Tuesday in their first attempt to end a killing spree by warring street gangs.
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Some 100 former soldiers who helped lead a revolt against ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide seized his abandoned residence on Wednesday and said they would make it their headquarters.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Oct. 6, 2004 - UN peacekeepers and Haitian police in armored personnel carriers moved in on a downtown slum blocked by loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, taking action Wednesday to halt a new urban offensive.
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By Joseph Guyler Delva GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with theU.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturdaywhen peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdownon armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Former soldiers who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a revolt said Wednesday that reinforcements are advancing on Haiti&#39;s capital to stop violence that has killed at least 46 people.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A Haitian rebel leader  has called on ex-soldiers, who helped oust former president  Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to launch a guerrilla war to unseat the  interim government that replaced him.
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Ex-soldiers who helped topple former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday vowed to end escalating street warfare in the Haitian capital while
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gunfire erupted in a slum teeming with loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide yesterday, sending people scattering through the trash-strewn streets following days of political clashes that have left at least 14 dead.
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Bands of former soldiers and armed residents looted police arsenals, set bonfires and fired shots into the air amid escalating chaos in this impoverished Caribbean nation.
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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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UN troops and Haitian police seal off a house in Port-au-Prince occupied by former members of the army.
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Using armored cars and earth movers, U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police moved into an area early Sunday controlled by militants loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, protecting workers removing burned out cars used as road blocks.
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Ex-soldiers who ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a deadly revolt said reinforcements are advancing on the capital to halt violence that has killed at least 48 people - a move that threatens conflict with
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WASHINGTON -- Human rights violations and outright atrocities are growing more rampant by the day in Haiti as police, former soldiers, and rebel groups wreak havoc in a violent struggle that local authorities and United Nations peacekeepers appear unable to control, according to US officials, foreign diplomats, and local human rights monitors.
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Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum that has become a flashpoint for unrest, using bulldozers to remove a barricade of torched cars that had blocked traffic in the capital.
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Dozens of demobilized soldiers have taken over the home of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a Port-au-Prince suburb.