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Caribbean & Central America - 19 October 2004
Violence flares up in Haiti
On 30 September supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide launched a series of violent protests to demand the return of their exiled leader. In the ensuing two weeks more than 50 people died, mainly in clashes between the so-called chimí¨res and the national police. The interim government of Prime Minister Gérard Latortue looks shaky; the UN stabilisation force, Minustah, which is supposed to be restoring order to Haiti, looks out of its depth; and the former soldiers that were
instrumental in bringing down Aristide in February have converged on Port-au-Prince requesting that the government unleash them on the chimí¨res.
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