 UNITED NATIONS - UN peacekeepers in Haiti will keep uppressure on violent gangs in Port-au-Prince, the UN special representative for Haiti said Monday. Speaking in the wake of several clashes between peacekeepers and armed gangs in the Haitian capital, Edmond Mulet called the UN operations “very positive” and said the action was designed to counter criminal, not political, violence.
“Everybody in Haiti is asking us to continue,” he said. “The aim is to arrest these people and for them to face justice eventually, and we will continue with these actions right now”.
| Face justice 'eventually'? I guess that means Carla del Ponte will have a new gig ... |
Mulet added: “I don’t think right now that the violence in Haiti is politically motivated or related. It could have been in the past."
| Nope, nothing but common criminals, the lot of them ... |
The representative of the UN secretary general in Haiti, Mulet said the rules of engagement for the several thousand UN-uniformed soldiers and police in the country since 2004 are “very clear.” “We would never ever shoot at people before being shot at,” he said. “We only shoot at people who shoot at us.”
| "Assuming we're still alive after the first shot." |
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