Haiti Revolt February 2004

 
 
 

Police chase rock throwing demonstrators in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 15.	Police chase rock throwing demonstrators in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 15.

 
 

Members of the armed resistance of Gonaives,       control access to the city at the south edge of town,       where a roadblock is still in place on Feb. 14. The       government has requested that they allow food       and emergency personnel to pass through.	A Haitian police officer questions a suspect after      rocks were thrown at the police. Violent demons-      trations have spread to 10 Haitian cities and towns.      Reports by Haitian media and human-rights groups      have put deaths as high as 50 by Feb. 15.

 
 

Barricades are set up throughout the littered      streets of Gonaives, which is controlled by the      Anti-Aristide Resistant Front . The writing reads:     “Down with Aristide Assassin.”