 | Not half as outraged as the poor guys who got shot up, I'll bet. |
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed sorrow and outrage over the deaths of two peacekeepers in Haiti who were killed by groups using human shields. According to a statement released Monday by a spokesman at U.N. World Headquarters in New York, one soldier from Sri Lanka was killed and three others wounded Sunday morning while carrying out joint operations with Haitian National Police to gain control of a police station that had been overtaken southwest of Port-au-Prince. Later the same day, a Nepalese soldier was killed while manning a checkpoint in central Haiti, said U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard. The attackers used women and children as shields while firing indiscriminately on peacekeepers. "The secretary-general is outraged that armed groups are using civilians as human shields and by these cowardly attacks," the statement read. The Nepalese troops later regained control of another police station that had been illegally occupied. The United Nations remains committed to improve the security situation in Haiti, the spokesman said. |