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News from city soleil: jan 30,2009

Infact, city sloeil is the biggest popular area of Haiti. when the Ex-president Aristide was to the power, there were about 500.000 people were living down there. Right now, there are about 482.000 left. After forced departure of Aristide, city sloeil had known so many difficulties by Aristide's supporters who took up arms. a lot of people died, othres were obliged to give up their houses for going to lodge at their friends' or family's out of the city. And those who had no possibilities at all, were obliged to stay there. at that moment, there were only two police stations and bandits had forced the policemen to give up their post because they had bigger weapons than them. Both all of palice stations were burnt by the bandits. Many violences, rape, rob and kidnapping all over in the city. Some month later, Munistah was coming and getting control of the situation til now. Minustah is building a big police station to the center of city and they have project to build two more to assure the security of the population. Actually, the city is peaceful where everybody can move without problem and scare.

Now, the people respect one another and they are really happy to be quiet.

Written by jean Marcel.