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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 15-16, 2004

                     
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Anti-Aristide protesters march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                

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A local resident(L) watches Haitian police run up an alley in search of people who had been throwing stones during an anti-Aristide demonstration in Port-Au-Prince(AFP/Thony Belizaire)
                   

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Two Haitian police officers flee from stones hurled at a car by a mob of Haitian men participating in a march by opponents of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in Port-Au-Prince(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
                               
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Students chant anti-Aristide slogans during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb.15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, more than 1,000 protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday as exiled paramilitary forces joined rebels in a bloody uprising that has killed some 50 people. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                 
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A police officer surrounded by media takes cover while protesters throw rocks during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday, Feb.15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                      
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A protester is detained by police during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. (Ap Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                                     

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An opponent of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide holds a poster, showing the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, prior to taking part in a protest march. The poster with words in French read: Our Mother of Perpetual Care, Patron of Haiti. The political crisis threatening to unravel Haiti's social fabric continued, with new protests in the capital city against the government of beleaguered President Jean Bertrand Aristide.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
                                 
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A man prays in the middle of the street during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                 
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An group of protesters are detained by the police after an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday as exiled paramilitary forces joined rebels in a bloody uprising that has killed some 50 people. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                              
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A police officer runs to take position during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Sunday, Feb.15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                              
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Anti-Aristide protesters throw rocks at government supporters during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. Defying government loyalists, protesters demonstrated against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                      
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A child cries after police led him away to safety with his father, third from right, after a crowd accused the man of being an Aristide supporter during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. The man, unidentified, denied the allegation. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                              
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A police officer leads away a man holding his crying child to safety after a crowd accuses the man of being an Aristide supporter during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. The man denied the allegation from the crowd. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                             

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People on a terrace stand before riot police during a protest by opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, February 15, 2004. (Reuters Photo)
                           
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An unindentified person walks through a burned down house of an allegedly anti-Aristide supporter in Saint Marc, 45 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti Monday, Febr 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                 
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Two unidentified policemen rest in the police station in Saint Marc, Haiti, 45 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 (Ap Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                        
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