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I'm the witch; you're the world.

— "Last Midnight", Into the Woods

UN Accused of Shooting Protester at Fr. Jean-Juste's Funeral

A large banner waved overhead declaring "[Father] Jerry you left us but the struggle continues" as thousands of mourners streamed out carrying Jean-Juste's casket sparking an impromptu pro-Lavalas demonstration.

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The procession and demonstration were suddenly interrupted by gunfire that could be heard from around the corner. Witnesses report that Brazilian soldiers with the UN military mission opened fire after attempting to arrest one of the mourners. The UN has since denied the shooting and claim that the victim had been killed by either a rock thrown by the crowd or a blunt instrument. Eyewitnesses on the scene have countered that the UN is trying to cover-up the affair as it promises to heighten tensions before Sunday's elections.

— Haiti: UN Peacekeepers Open Fire on Jean-Juste Funeral Protest

A Haitian television station broadcast video Friday that provided new details on a deadly confrontation between U.N. peacekeepers and mourners for a popular priest allied with former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

The Thursday clash, in which a young man was killed, could exacerbate tensions between Haitians and the 9,000-member international force that has been in Haiti since an uprising forced Aristide into exile in 2004. Protesters incensed with the presence of foreign troops burned a U.N. vehicle in a nearby neighborhood the day before.

The video did not appear to show what happened to the man, showing only some U.N. soldiers arresting another man and firing shots into the air.

The station, Radio Tele Ginen, did not comment on the video, but quoted lawmakers and witnesses repeating charges that Brazilian soldiers fired a bullet that struck the man in the face and killed him.

U.N. police spokesman Fred Blaise reiterated the United Nations' position that the soldiers did not kill the marcher. He said the fatal injury was caused by a blunt object such as a rock, not a bullet. He did not say what evidence the U.N. used to reach that conclusion.

The U.N. earlier acknowledged its soldiers fired warning shots, but Blaise said he did not know if they used live ammunition or rubber bullets [...].

— Google News

I wouldn't be surprised if this got pretty ugly.