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HAITI-UN-UNREST
TO GO WITH AFP STORY HAITI-UN-UNREST
Brazilian Gen. Floriano Peixoto speaks during an AFP interview in Port-au-Prince on June 18, 2009. One person was shot dead June 18 during demonstrations supporting former president Jean Bertrand Aristide which erupted at a funeral service for a well-known priest.Thousands of people had turned out Thursday for the funeral of priest Gerard Jean-Juste, who was close to Aristide and died two weeks ago in Florida. "It seems that one person was killed close to the cathedral. The first reports we have show that the soldiers fired in the air," said Sophie Boutaud de la Combe, spokeswoman for the UN forces in Haiti."The blue helmets were apparently attacked by stone-throwing demonstrators from different parts of the town center," she added. However the commander of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Brazilian General Floriano Peixoto, did not believe that the deadly bullet was fired by any of his soldiers."The truth is I do not believe... that the soldiers fired on the people with live ammunition," Peixoto told AFP soon after the incident."All the soldiers involved said that they did not fire on the people," he said. AFP PHOTO Thony BELIZAIRE
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Port-au-Prince, 94, HAITI |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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THONY BELIZAIRE |
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18 Iunie 2009 |
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