Port-au-Prince, Mar 15 : US troops shot and killed two people in Port-au-Prince as a top US General said that establishing stability in Haiti would take time. The two Haitians were gunmen, according to the United States, but local people said the men were bystanders. The deaths bring to six the number of Haitians killed by US troops since their arrival as part of Haiti`s International Peacekeeping Force.
Meanwhile, General Richard Myers yesterday warned that it will take time to restore stability in Haiti after the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. General Myers, Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said violence would not be tolerated and would be ``dealt with`` forcefully.
Gerard Latortue, Haiti`s new Prime Minister, yesterday criticised Jamaican plans to allow Aristide to visit the country next week as ``an unfriendly act``. Along Haiti`s border with the Dominican Republic, Haitian rebels released yesterday 30 people they took hostage in the Dominican Republic on Friday, the head of the Dominican Republic`s border troops in the community of Dajabon, said.
Colonel Ramon Garcia said in return that the Dominicans released a Haitian who had been arrested the day before in connection with the killing of two Dominican soldiers in February.
Bureau Report