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Chief U.N. peacekeeper warns gangs to disarm

UNITED NATIONS (Associated Press) - Haitian gangs should accept a U.N. offer to disarm and return to civilian life or else peacekeepers will deal with them "with firmness," the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti said Tuesday.

Juan Gabriel Valdes said the mission, known as MINUSTAH, was stepping up action to ensure that militias and gangs do not disrupt elections set for later this year. Sunday, two U.N. soldiers were killed in Haiti, one of them as peacekeepers raided a police station occupied by former soldiers.

Valdes said the U.N. mission was offering armed gangs in shantytowns the chance to turn over their weapons and return to civilian life. He said the mission already was working toward that goal with armed groups, some of them former Haitian military

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Chief U.N. peacekeeper warns gangs to disarm

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Haitian gangs should accept a U.N. offer to disarm and return to civilian life or else peacekeepers will deal with them "with firmness," the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti said Tuesday.

Juan Gabriel Valdes said the mission, known as MINUSTAH, was stepping up action to ensure that militias and gangs do not disrupt elections set for later this year. Sunday, two U.N. soldiers were killed in Haiti, one of them as peacekeepers raided a police station occupied by former soldiers.

Valdes said the U.N. mission was offering armed gangs in shantytowns the chance to turn over their weapons and return to civilian life. He said the mission already was working toward that goal with armed groups, some of them former Haitian military

The English language is very precise. What is said is what is meant and someone is definitely playing with words when the words are meant to be played with.

In this article, they are playing with the words "gangs" and "former soldiers" interchangeably.

Gang members should return to civil life? What was that?

Let?s wait and see. The blan is going to have his election no matter what. It is left to us Haïtians to take the ball and run with it.

[HABEASCORPUS]

Des gens habitués au partage du butin facile, provenant de racket, kidnapping, trafic de drogue, pendant 16 ans, ces gens vont rendre leurs armes et retourner travailler comme mécaniciens, boss-macçon, chauffeur de camionette.

Petits petits petits! Coucou! Petits petits petits! Tu veux des surettes ?

De qui se moque-t-on?