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01.02.2006
Peace Promised During Haiti's Elections

(Quelle: Washington Post) U.N. and Haitian authorities pledged Thursday to prevent violence from disrupting next week's elections, as an aid agency warned that fighting inside gang-controlled slums threatens to scare people away from the polls.Lt. Gen. Jose Elito Carvalho de Siqueira, the commander of U.N. peacekeepers, said international troops and police will work with Haitian authorities to make sure people can vote in the first election since a rebellion forced the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide nearly two years ago.

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23.01.2006
New UN military chief in Haiti vows stabilization

(Quelle: Reuters AlertNet) Brazilian Gen. Jose Elito Carvalho Siqueira said the U.N. troops were not an occupation force and had no plan to violate the rights of innocent people living in volatile slums, as several human rights groups have charged. … An earlier statement by the U.N. envoy to Haiti, Juan Gabriel Valdes, about a large-scale military operation being contemplated at the beginning of this month to flush armed gangs out of Cite Soleil, predicted 'collateral damage.' It prompted several human rights groups to accuse the United Nations of preparing a massacre in the slum.

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23.01.2006
Fear and death ensnare UN's soldiers in Haiti

(Quelle: New York Times) Uncertainty remains among the highest level organizers of the elections about whether a fair vote is possible in the corrupt and deeply polarized political atmosphere here. The postponement has led to finger-pointing all around. The interim government blames the international community for the delays, saying it failed to deliver voter cards and train enough poll workers. The United Nations blames the interim government, accusing its leaders of stalling in fear of losing power.

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16.01.2006
Two UN peacekeepers killed in Haiti

(Quelle: New York Times) Gunmen killed two Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers and seriously wounded a third Tuesday at a checkpoint in a slum in Haiti's capital that is a stronghold for supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a spokesman said. The shootings in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince occurred three weeks before long-postponed presidential and legislative elections to replace the interim government imposed after Aristide fled the country.

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14.01.2006
Annan condemns slander campaign against UN mission, senior envoy in Haiti

(Quelle: UN News) Secretary-General Kofi Annan has registered his opposition to a campaign of defamation against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) as well as his senior envoy to the country. In a letter to Prime Minister Gérard Latortue, Mr. Annan rejects the slander in recent weeks as “unacceptable.” … The Secretary-General also urges the Prime Minister to publicly condemn the campaign to discredit the envoy and the mission, warning that it could threaten the security of MINUSTAH as well as the holding of free and fair elections.

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12.01.2006
Brazil looks for way out of Haiti mission

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Brazil jumped at the chance to lead the U.N. force 18 months ago to show it was a regional power worthy of a seat on a revamped U.N. Security Council. … Brazilian officers who hoped to mediate solutions with Haitians as fellow Latin Americans face pressure from other U.N. member forces to go into combat against armed gangs. Peacekeepers say they are seen as foreign occupiers or proxies of the United States, which helped engineer Aristide's flight.

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09.01.2006
Haiti capital paralyzed by strike over kidnappings

(Quelle: Reuters Alertnet) The Haitian capital was paralyzed on Monday by a general strike called to protest a wave of kidnappings and what some Haitians see as U.N. inaction in the face of out-of-control crime. Organized by business leaders who have been urging the U.N force to be more muscular in cracking down on slum gangs as the country struggles to organize elections, the strike emptied shops and streets. Police sources say 1,900 people have been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince in the past 10 months, despite the presence of 9,000 U.N. troops and police.

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09.01.2006
Banden, Entführer und eine korrupte Polizei

(Quelle: FAZ) Der chilenische Chef der Minustah, Juan Gabriel Valdes, hat die zuletzt sprunghaft angewachsene Zahl von Entführungen mit den bevorstehenden Wahlen in Verbindung gebracht: Drogenhändler und politische Gruppen nähmen mit dem Lösegeld Einfluß auf den politischen Prozeß. … Die Regierung in Washington, die trotz des großen Engagements Brasiliens weiter über den entscheidenden Einfluß in Haiti verfügt, ist offenbar jetzt zum Schluß gekommen, daß baldige Wahlen eine Voraussetzung für die Schaffung einigermaßen geordneter Verhältnisse sind - und nicht umgekehrt.

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08.01.2006
Haiti sets new date for elections

(Quelle: ISN) Haiti’s elections for a new president, prime minister, and parliament have been delayed four times since November. Interim leaders said there were not enough polling stations or election workers to conduct the balloting and blamed the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) for not living up to their commitments to prepare voting stations and register voters ahead of the election. … The new date for elections is 7 February.

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08.01.2006
Haïti confronté à une nouvelle vague de violences

(Quelle: Le Monde) La mort violente, samedi 7 janvier, du général brésilien qui commandait les troupes des Nations unies a alourdi l'atmosphère à Haïti, où les autorités, pressées par la communauté internationale, viennent d'annoncer un nouveau calendrier électoral. Reporté à quatre reprises, le premier tour des élections présidentielle et législatives est prévu le 7 février. C'était la date limite fixée par le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU et par l'Organisation des Etats américains lors de réunions tenues le vendredi 6 janvier.

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