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Chilean troops arrive in Haiti for peace mission
DATELINE: SANTIAGO

A group of 153 marines from Chile arrived Friday in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, to join the battalion of the South American country in the UN Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti.

The Defense Ministry of Chile said in a statement that the contingent will replace an equal number of troops deployed in Haiti since December 2004.

Santiago, Dominican Republic, May 16 (EFE).- Dominican authorities in recent days have deported more than 3,000 Haitians in one of the biggest such sweeps in decades, authorities said Monday.

"There are thousands. More than 3,000," the top Dominican migration official in the northern part of the country, Juan Isidro Perez, told EFE as he directed the repatriation operations, which have been criticized by human rights organizations.

The massive repatriations come a week after a Dominican man was murdered in the northwestern town of Hatillo Palma, allegedly by Haitians, an incident that unleashed the rage of local Dominicans and obligated the Haitian residents to flee the town.

Gunfire Kills 5 in Haiti Demonstration
Thursday April 28, 2005 3:31 AM

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Police fired on protesters demanding the release of detainees loyal to Haiti's ousted president Wednesday, killing at least five demonstrators, U.N. officials and witnesses said.

Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush's crusade for "freedom"
By Bill Van Auken
12 March 2005
World Socialist Website

Dozens of Haitian men, women and children drowned when their rickety homemade craft went down in the waters of the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Some 50 people had crowded onto the boat, which sank under their weight.

Three survivors made it ashore to tell of the disaster, while officials reported recovering nine bodies, which were buried in a mass grave. "There’s nothing we can do," said Cap-Haitien Mayor Apile Fleurent. "We’re just waiting to see how many bodies are brought in by the waves."

Haiti Visit
By Yves Engler
Znet
While many Canadians know that on Feb. 29, 2004, Haiti's democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sent into exile, few of us realize what most Haitians believe—that Aristide was in fact overthrown by a U.S., France and Canadian-orchestrated coup d'état.

Agence Haitienne Presse [AHP] News - February 28, 2005 - English translation (Unofficial)
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Editorial: February 29, a troubling anniversary...
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Today marks practically one year since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
forced to leave the National Palace under pressure from certain countries in
the international community who claimed they were acting out of a desire to
avoid a blood bath in Haiti.

Last Tuesday the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami Law School issued a groundbreaking human rights report, based on wide-ranging interviews with businessmen, grassroots leaders, gang members, victims of human rights violations, lawyers, human rights groups and police and officials from the UN and the Haitian and U.S. governments, and observations in poor neighborhoods, police stations, prisons, hospitals and the state morgue. The report examines the violence committed against Haiti's poor majority, and shows how institutions that should protect the poor- the police, the government, the UN, the public health system- are actually contributing to the violence.