In January Haiti was hit by a massive magnitude-7.0 earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, and killed more than 220,000 people, including 101 staff members of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH); more than a million Haitians were also displaced.
Members of the Brazilian Battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the U.S. Army distributing supplies in Cité Soleil, a slum of Port-au-Prince.
Among those killed by January's catastrophic earthquake in Haiti were 96 troops of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which had been formed in 2004.
The United Nations mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and a joint Organisation of American States/Caribbean Community election observer mission had given an initial endorsement of the vote, despite acknowledging irregularities.
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) now operates in the country.
Préval has so far kept a fairly tight lid on unrest in Port-au-Prince; he has been helped by the presence of eleven thousand uniformed, blue-helmeted soldiers from MINUSTAH.
The day before Jean's rejection was announced, MINUSTAH arrested sixty-eight people in the shantytown where he was most beloved, in what MINUSTAH officials called a standard operation.
"That is, [a Minustah soldier] was carrying the cholera strain.
After calling the UN's headquarters in New York and the Minustah base in Port-au-Prince dozens of times, they were told that Minustah's Claims Unit would receive their petition and the sheaf of claims forms accompanying it.
THERE are few chinks in the legal armour of Minustah, the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti.
In mid-June, following joint Minustah/PNH operations over several weeks, the Minustah's regional police commander, Jean-Jacques L'Hour, announced that 54 arrests had been made, and the former "no-go" areas of the city, Raboteau and Jubilee, were now freely accessible.
