Five Months After Aristide, Mayhem Rules the Streets
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 04:28AM
TheSpook
As the charges and suspicions filter
through the city like the sticky summer air, though, one thing is
certain - mayhem is reaching ever higher levels, with murders, rapes
and bus robberies becoming routine. In the five months since Mr.
Aristide was driven from power, a tense inertia has spread over efforts
to police this shattered society, allowing armed factions and marauders
to move in. Despite the United Nations peacekeeping force of 2,300
soldiers spread across the country, and despite a surface quiet in
major public places, any number of groups are vying for street control
- the old guard police, the rebels, the Aristide supporters and
freelance thugs. [more]
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