U.N. pushes deeper into Haitian slum
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On the dusty streets of Haiti's largest slum, young men in baggy clothes lounge outside bullet-pocked shacks, listening for the rumble of armored vehicles carrying U.N. peacekeepers.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police seized the last remaining gang stronghold in Haiti's largest slum on Wednesday, the latest in a series of military crackdowns aimed at stabilizing the impoverished and divided Caribbean nation.
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Gunmen raided homes and stole food from Haitians outside aid distribution centers as U.N. troops struggled on Friday to maintain order in the chaos left by floods in which 2,000 people may have died.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE  - The U.N. peacekeeping force in  Haiti should reach its full strength of more than 8,000  soldiers and police by the end of November, the United Nations  special envoy to Haiti said on Friday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hundreds of UN soldiers stormed a slum neighborhood in Haiti's capital yesterday to try to wrest control from a criminal gang, prompting a gunfight that killed one person and wounded several others, including two peacekeepers.
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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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Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest slum Friday to arrest gang members and take control of the area &#151; sparking a gun battle that wounded at least two soldiers, the top U.N. commander said.
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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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The U.N. said Friday that it had confined a group of peacekeepers to their base in Ivory Coast after receiving allegations of widespread sexual abuse, the latest in a string of accusations of sexual violations by U.N. forces around the world.
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UN peacekeepers beefed up security on Thursday in a Haitian city where more than 1,000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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Haitian police and UN troops moved into a slum neighborhood on Sunday and cleared street barricades that paralyzed a part of the capital.
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The UN peacekeeping force in Haiti should reach the planned 8,000 or more by the end of November, Haitian radio reported Saturday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,  - Armed UN peacekeepers and Haitian police evicted former soldiers who were occupying ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide&#39;s luxurious mansion here.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - 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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UN peacekeepers worked Saturday to contain violence in Haiti caused by protesters calling for the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Haitian Police take position and shoot from a street close to one the main entrances to the pro-Aristide slum of Bel-Air, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday Oct.15, 2004.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti_U.N. peacekeeping forces circled Haitiâs capital Thursday, a day after sporadic violence marred US Secretary of State Colin Powellâs visit.