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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (DECEMBER 16, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE NEAR FORMER PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE'S HOUSE LOOKING AT UN SOLDIERS

2. POLICE VEHICLE LIGHTS

3. UN SOLDIERS SEEN THROUGH HAITIAN POLICE VEHICLE WINDSHIELD WITH BULLET HOLES

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRAZILIAN UN PEACEKEEPER COMMANDER CARLOS CHAGAS, SAYING:

"Yesterday, the former military has occupied the old house of former President Aristide and we received the request for support from the Haitian government to re-occupy the house and right now we have the Brazilian brigade from the military force that's on the scene. We have started the negotiations phase to address the situation. We, as much as possible, we will address a peaceful solution to this situation."

5. UN VEHICLE FULL OF BRAZILIAN PEACEKEEPERS ARRIVING AT ARISTIDE'S HOUSE

6. UN PEACEKEEPER LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS

7. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LISTENING TO RADIO IN NEIGHBORHOOD

8. VARIOUS OF HAITIAN POLICE SWAT TEAM DRIVING BY

9. BRAZILIAN PEACEKEEPER AND UN VEHICLE NEAR ARISTIDE HOUSE

10. PEACEKEEPERS HANDS ON WEAPON

11. UN HELICOPTER OVERHEAD

12. UN PEACEKEEPER ON ROOF LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS

13. PULL-OUT FROM IN FRONT OF ARISTIDE'S HOUSE

14. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) BRAZILIAN COLONEL CARLOS BARCEOLOS SAYING:

"We have heard that we are going to receive a document from the government ordering them to leave the house."

15. HAITIAN POLICE HANDING PAPER TO HEAD OF UN PEACEKEEPING FORCES IN HAITI GENERAL HELENO

16. HELENO ON THE PHONE WALKING WITH PAPERS IN HIS HAND

17. FORMER HAITIAN SOLDIERS LOOKING OUT WINDOW IN HOUSE ON ARISTIDE'S PROPERTY

18. (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED FORMER SOLDIER, SAYING:

"We're the ones who fought to put this government in place. What right does La Tortue have to do this?"

19. FORMER SOLDIERS LOOKING OUT WINDOW

20. UN SOLDIERS WHO'VE TAKEN OVER BUILDING NEAR ARISTIDE'S HOUSE

21. UN PEACEKEEPER ON ROOF WITH AUTOMATIC WEAPON

22. WOMEN WITH WATER ON HEAD WALKING BY WITH PRO-ARISTIDE POSTER NEARBY

23. MEN WEARING PRO-ARISTIDE T-SHIRTS AT A COMMEMORATIVE ALTAR READING PRESS RELEASE

24. (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED HAITIAN SUPPORTER, SAYING:

"Today makes 14 years since the Haitian people started their struggle for better living conditions. No Aristide, No peace. Long live Aristide!"

25. MASKED MAN HOLDING SWORD AND AK-47 NEXT TO COFFIN OF DEAD GANG LEADER "DREAD MACKENZIE"

26. ARISTIDE STICKER ON GUN WITH PEOPLE SINGING

27. GANG LEADER'S MASKED FACE

28. PEOPLE SINGING WHILE GANG LEADER FIRES INTO AIR

29. PEOPLE CHEERING AND YELLING 'LONG LIVE ARISTIDE'

30. MOURNERS WITH GUNS CARRYING COFFIN RUNNING THROUGH AN ALLEY

31. DRUMMERS ACCOMPANYING FUNERAL PROCESSION

32. MOURNERS CARRYING COFFIN WALKING DOWN STREET WITH POSTERS

33. MASKED GANG MEMBER WITH PISTOL IN PROCESSION

34. MOURNERS CARRYING CIRCLE TURNING AROUND

35. MOURNERS CARRYING COFFIN CROSSING AN OPEN SEWER

36. MOURNERS WALKING BY AS ONE SAYS "ARISTIDE 5 YEARS" (HIS ORIGINAL TERM)

38. PULL-OUT FROM MOURNERS GOING UP HILL YOUNG BOY 'ARISTIDE HAS TO COME BACK. THE DAY HE COMES BACK, THE COUNTRY WILL BE GOOD AGAIN. WE WANT PEACE BUT ARISTIDE HAS TO COME BACK.'

39. UN TANKS GOING DOWN A HILL IN NEIGHBORHOOD

STORY: Tensions rose in Haiti on Thursday (December 16) as troops surrounded the house of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide on the 14th anniversary of his first election to office.

One day after members of Haiti's defunct army took over the residence with plans to use it as a military headquarters, hundreds of Haitian police and UN peacekeepers surrounded it and initiated talks with the rebels urging them to abandon it.

Headed by Ramiffain the Ravix, the former soldiers are all members of the army which was disbanded in 1995 by then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who is currently exiled in South Africa.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has faced simmering tensions since Aristide was driven out on February 29 by an armed revolt and U.S. and French pressure to quit.

Pro-Aristide gangs retain control of many of Port-au-Prince's sprawling slums and the former soldiers who opposed him remain in charge of several towns, demanding the re-establishment of the army and years of back pay.

In one such area of the Bel-Aire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Aristide gangs buried a gang leader in an area closed off to police.

As hundreds of masked and armed gang members ran along his coffin, the group buried 'Dread MacKenzie' who was killed by a rival gang last week.

Aristide loyalists expressed their displeasure with the interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue during the funeral.

Hundreds of supporters demanded Aristide's return on Thursday (December 16), the 14th anniversary of Aristide's first election to the presidency.

The interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue does not have the resources or police to impose order, and the Brazilian-led force of around 3,000 soldiers is at less than half the strength authorized by the U.N. Security Council.

Lavalas members say the interim authorities have targeted them for supporting Aristide, who is now in South Africa but the government and Washington blame the violence on Lavalas.