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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Haiti's Prime Minister Gerard Latortue is bitterly objecting to the US State Departments instructions for its non-emergency personnel to leave the strife-torn Caribbean nation, amid security concerns.
The US State Department urged US citizens to leave Haiti or not to travel there, amid violent crime including carjackings, kidnaps and assault. It also instructed non-emergency personnel at the U.S. embassy in Haiti to leave the country.
The State department warning came after gunshots were fired by snipers at a US Embassy van in the capital Port au Prince last Wednesday.
In 2004 U.N. peacekeepers were deployed to try to stabilize Haiti after its elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was driven out in February last year amid an armed revolt.
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