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STORY: HAITI / DEMONSTRATION
TRT: 1:24
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 18 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, street littered with stones
2. Close up, tires on fire
3. Med shot, a man adds a tire to the fire
4. Wide shot, a container in the street
5. Wide shot, a container and a pile of garbage as a barricade
6. Med shot, Haitian policeman with gun in hands
7. Wide shot, Haitian policeman walking by the wall
8. Wide shot, bulldozer cleaning up the barricades
9. Various shots, people running down the street chanting “aba MINUSTAH, aba Preval” and Haitian police surrounding them
At a demonstration in Port au Prince today (18 November), some 30 to 50 men burned tires along one of the main avenues in the city chanting “aba MINUSTAH, aba Preval.” (“down MINUSTAH, down Preval”)
Haiti’s police, present at the scene, did not intervene.
The demonstration in the capital follow acts of violence against local and United Nations (UN) security forces in Haiti’s Cap-Haitien and Hinche.
According to the UN Mission in the country (MINUSTAH), the incidents have been politically motivated and aimed at creating a climate of insecurity on the eve of elections.
Earlier this week, six MINUSTAH personnel in Hinche were wounded. At Quartier Morin in the northern department, armed demonstrators reportedly opened fire on peacekeepers.
One of the demonstrators was killed when he was hit by a bullet fired by a UN peacekeeper who shot back in self-defense. An investigation is under way to determine the exact circumstances of the death.
The elections are scheduled for 28 November. The Caribbean country is still reeling from January’s quake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people and displaced about 1.3 million others. In addition, a recent cholera outbreak has made over 12,000 Haitians ill and claimed the lives of an estimated 900 people.
