AMMAN - Gunmen in Haiti on Saturday shot dead two Jordanian UN peacekeepers, the official Petra agency reported. ‘A Jordanian UN peacekeeping patrol was targeted by unknown gunfire in Haiti. A lieutenant and a corporal died,’ it said, quoting a Jordanian official who did not elaborate. ‘The Jordanian government, which deplores the death of the two martyrs, will continue to assume its humanitarian role in restoring world peace and security,’ he said.A 7,500-strong UN peacekeeping force was sent to maintain order after the February 2004 ouster of president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Jordan has around 1,497 soldiers in the force, half of which are deployed around the violence-wracked shantytown of Cite Soleil in the capital Port-au-Prince. At least six Jordanian soldiers have been killed in the lawless Caribbean nation since they were deployed in March 2004.
Last month thousands of Haitians protested in the streets of Cite Soleil demanding the withdrawal of United Nations forces.
| I'd go along with that. All UN and other foreign troops out. Then cordon off the place and let the Haitians settle it. No one goes in, no one gets out, until they learn to be civilized. |