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The aftermath of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his murderous regime's end - March 15-17, 2004

                           
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Haitian police inspect guns that were handed over by supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                                   
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A French soldier tries to control the crowds during a disarming ceremony of supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                           
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A French soldier stands guard during the disarming ceremony of supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                                    

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A Haitian policeman tries to control the crowds during a disarming ceremony of supporters of Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                           
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A French soldier watches on top of a car during a disarming ceremony of supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
                               

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Supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide hand over their guns to Haitian police during a disarming ceremony in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                            
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A French soldier stands guard while a supporter of Ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide holds up an image of Aristide during a disarming ceremony in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                             
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Haitian police inspect guns that were handed over by supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of Aristide supporters handed over their guns to Haitian police and French peacekeepers.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
                                  

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Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue (C) speaks during an official ceremony for the installation of the multinational force in Haiti in Port-Au-Prince.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)
                                      

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US Marines set up defensive positions during a patrol in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
                                
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A man carries rifles to be handed over to the Haitian police during a disarming ceremony in the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. Four gangs of supporters of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide handed over their weapons to the police and French peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
                                      

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French soldiers march during an official ceremony for the installation of the multinational force in Haiti, in Port-Au-Prince. US, Canada, France and Chile have troops in Haiti as part of the multinational force(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
                            
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U.S. Marines detain a man during a night patrol in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in the early hours of Wednesday March 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
                                               
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Canadian troops arrive at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
                                                             
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U.S. Marines shine a light onto men that were briefly detained during a night patrol in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in the early hours of Wednesday March 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
                                   
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U.S. Marines guard the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a night patrol in the early hours of Wednesday, March 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
                             
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The interim President of Haiti, Bonface Alexandre, left and the new Prime Minister of Haiti, Gerard Latortue sit during the ceremony to announce their new cabinet at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
                              
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Haiti's interim President Boniface Alexandre, left, and the new Prime Minister of Haiti, Gerard Latortue, center, hand credentials to a new unidentified member of the newly formed cabinet at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday, March 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
                      
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U.S. Marine Brigadier Gen. Ron Coleman speaks to the Associated Press during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday March 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Pablo Aneli)
                       

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Two Haitian boys talk to a US marine posting guard at the city's port in Port-au-Prince. Troops from the US, France and Chile have poured troops into Haiti in an effort to stabilize the country after former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)
                                     
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U.S. Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., patrol the streets of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Monday March 15, 2004. (AP Photo/US Air Force, Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway)
                                   
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Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman while en route to Jamaica from the Central African Republic on a Jet, March 15, 2004. (Reuters/Katherin Kean/Democracy Now!)
                        

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Canadian (L) and Chilean soldiers (R) take part in an official ceremony for the installation of the multinational force in Haiti, 15 March in Port-Au-Prince. One day after a US Marine was shot and wounded, the new commander of the multinational force in Haiti said troops will increase their presence in the streets of Port-au-Prince, and warned they would not tolerate further violence(AFP/Yuri Cortez)
                            
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Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide looks out the window aboard an airplane en route from the Central African Republic to Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, March 15, 2004. Aristide returned to the Caribbean from African exile but only to temporary asylum in Jamaica, some 130 miles from Haiti. U.S. and Haitian officials had warned that Aristide's return to the region, could threaten a fragile stability, as an interim government is being installed. Aristide's wife Mildred sits behind him. (AP Photo/Radio Pacifica's Democracy Now!)
                        
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