Police station in Haiti attacked

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Armed opposition militants Monday attacked a police station in the Haitian city of Gonaives, but no one was hurt, a local journalist said.

The attackers belonging to the Arbonite Revolutionary Resistance Front first fired on the station from a passing car and then approached on foot, spraying the building with bullets, the reporter told AFP.

Two houses belonging to Gonaives police officers were also burned down.

In the capital, riot police dispersed a demonstration of about 200 students and teachers who were demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

The police intervened because authorities and the marchers could not agree on the route for the demonstrators to take.

Haiti has been rocked by internal unrest in recent weeks, with opposition members depending Aristide's departure.

Opposition leaders are to take part in talks in Nassau with members of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) on the crisis in the impoverished republic. 

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