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In Gonaives and other cities, Haiti, violent protests, peaceful protests, 'criminal Aristide must go,' murders and burning since uncommonly chief bandit Jean-Bertrand Aristide brutally murdered his notorious criminal Amiot Metayer - February 7, 2004

                    

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People look at the lynched body of a police officer who was dragged from a hospital in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Aristide steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                     
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Porsainvil Edvard, 42, lies wounded in the face after police shot him in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police fought gunbattles with armed rebels Saturday as officers sought to retake Haiti's fourth-largest city from a loosely organized group of militants staging a revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                       
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An anti Aristide rebel beats on the corpse of a police officer with a machete in Gonaives, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Haiti's embattled president steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                           

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An anti Aristide armed rebel walks beside the corpse of a lynched police officer in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Aristide steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                           
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An anti Aristide rebel cuts off the ear of a police officer killed in action in Gonaives, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Haiti's embattled president steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                  

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An anti Aristide armed rebel walks beside the corpse of a lynched police force in Gonaives, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Haiti's embattled president steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                  
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An anti Aristide rebel shoots at the corpse of a police officer in Gonaives, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed Saturday with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Haiti's embattled president steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                             

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A rebel beats on the corpse of a police officer in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police clashed with rebels who have occupied this city for two days, and the insurgents promised to keep fighting until Haiti's embattled president steps down. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                      
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A police officer lies dead after exchanging fire with armed rebels in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Police fought gunbattles with armed rebels Saturday as officers sought to retake Haiti's fourth-largest city from a loosely organized group of militants staging a revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                           
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Armed rebels take position in Gonaives, Haiti, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004. Rebels with the Gonaives Resistance Front took the city of 200,000 people Thursday after a five-hour gunbattle with police. At least seven people were killed and 20 wounded. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                              
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Men and boys turn over a Haitian police vehicle officers abandoned as they tried to flee Gonaives, Haiti, when they were attacked by armed rebels while trying to re-take control of the town on February 7, 2004. Photo Reuters
                        
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