U.N. Troops, Ex-Haitian Troops Face Off

[Freddie Stubbs]

AMY BRACKEN
Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Several hundred U.N. troops and Haitian police surrounded the estate of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Thursday in a showdown with a band of former soldiers who seized the abandoned compound.

Haiti's interim government warned that the rebels must leave the estate in the suburb of Tabarre because it belongs to the state, but the men refuse to go.

"The transitional government will take all necessary steps to put an end to this intolerable situation with the assistance of the ... U.N. stabilization force," the government said in a statement issued through the U.N. peacekeeping mission.

The dozens of ex-soldiers, members of three-week rebellion that ousted Aristide in February, refused to leave after taking over the compound on Wednesday, said former Sgt. Remissainthe Ravix, their spokesman.

more: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/10426733.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

[htuttle]

1. Wow, look at all the chickens...

...coming home to roost.

[DeaconBlues]

2. What ever happened to the story that Aristide was "escorted" out of the

country by the U.S. military? That story sure did fade fast.

[el_gato]

3. this just proves the U.N. is a stooge of the neo-colonialists

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. How exactly does this story prove that?

:shrug: