Reuters: U.N. troops storm Haiti slum, in gunfight with gang

[Eugene]

U.N. troops storm Haiti slum, in gunfight with gang

By Joseph Guyler Delva
Reuters
Friday, February 9, 2007; 1:41 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Hundreds of U.N. soldiers stormed a slum neighborhood
in Haiti's capital on Friday to try to wrest control from a criminal gang, prompting a
gunfight that killed one person and wounded several others, including two peacekeepers.

More than 700 U.N. troops from seven nations moved into the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-
Prince around 3 a.m. to arrest a feared gang leader known as Evans and take over territory
occupied by his armed gang.

"The gangsters shot thousands of rounds at our troops when we entered the slum this
morning," the Brazilian U.N. troops' commander, Col. Barrosso Magno, said from the scene.

"We know that one person was killed and several others wounded."

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020901200.html

[Redstone]

1. Good. This is a positive for the average Haitian.

Redstone

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

2. i wonder what the real story is..

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[Laughing Mirror]

4. I dunno ... too many rich people getting kidnapped in Haiti?

Ransoms too steep for them to pay so send in the UN to kill their captors?

The venerable old Washington Post has that science of propaganda down to an art, a very profitable art.

[MrPrax]

3. Good timing...

The Haitian people just two days ago had http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/2_9_7/2_9_7.html">massive demonstration against the UN occupation of the illegal government -- nearly a 100,000 apparently.

Totally unrelated, I am sure...

So the UN is storming Cite Soleil again...?
They just massacred a bunch of women and children there just last Christmas?

"...According to residents of Cite Soleil, UN forces attacked their neighborhood in the early morning hours of Dec. 22, 2006 and killed more than 30 people including women and children. For many this was a repeat of UN military operations on July 6, 2005 when more than 26 people were killed in a successful assassination attempt on Emmanuel "Dred" Wilmer and four of his closest followers. Wilmer was openly hostile to the UN military occupation of his country and opposed the ouster of the constitutional president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He led armed resistance and inspired others to do the same against the brutal Haitian police and the irreparably corrupt legal system.


This time the target was a purported kidnapping gang led by a young man named Belony. The military operation was said to have been personally sanctioned by President Rene Preval, who was elected last year with support from Aristide's Lavalas movement. Tens of thousands of Lavalas supporters paralyzed the capital for more than a week to challenge the 76 million dollar UN-sponsored elections fiasco. The UN-backed Provisional Election Council(CEP) attempted a ballot counting fraud meant to keep Preval from assuming office..."

ZMag

...oh and you guessed it -- The UN was out to get the terrorists gangsters in December too...

[Robbien]

5. Poor poor Haiti

What did they ever do to deserve the damage we are doing to them?

[PLF]

6. They rebelled against slavery