Saturday, April 5, 2008

Haitians riot over prices, attack U.N. peacekeepers (Reuters)

More food riots. This time in Haiti

An injured woman is helped after gun shots were heard during a police campaign to move at least 9,000 street market sellers to a new fixed market location at the zone of Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince April 4, 2008. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)Reuters - Protesters angry over rising living costs
rioted in the southwestern Haitian town of Les Cayes, burning
shops, shooting at peacekeepers and looting containers in a
U.N. compound, the United Nations said in a statement on
Friday.

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