Violence erupts at anti Aristide march

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(8 Mar 2004) • • 1. Wide shot of march in front of Presidential Palace, with huge crowd singing and dancing • 2. Plastic set on fire by marchers in front of Presidential Palace • 3. Haitian police in crowd during march • 4. Various of people running and taking cover in street AUDIO gunfire • 5. Long shot of photographer and residents carrying wounded policeman • 6. People running, then pan to wounded policeman on top of pick-up truck • 7. Pick-up truck driving away • 8. Close-up of people taking cover and policeman firing • 9. Police taking cover telling resident to lay on ground AUDIO gunfire • 10. Policeman shooting behind a post • 11. Residents carrying wounded policeman AUDIO gunshots • 12. Residents taking wounded policeman on top of pick-up truck • 13. Close-up bullet wound on policeman's foot • 14. Mid shot heavily armed police in street • 15. Residents and press taking cover behind a vehicle AUDIO gunfire • 16. Various of French APCs driving through streets • 17. Residents pointing to area of fighting to troops • 18. Residents carrying wounded man • 19. Wounded man inside a car • 20. Pan from residents to dead man on ground • 21. Various of dead man on ground, crowd around him • 22. Tracking shot of police patrolling, men raising their hands over their heads • • STORYLINE: • • U.S. Marines are investigating an attack on thousands of people celebrating the flight of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that killed at least five people, including a foreign journalist, and led Marines to return fire on gunmen. • • What protesters called a victory march began with a couple hundred people in Port-au-Prince's Petionville suburb. • • Haitian police were in the lead and a convoy of U.S. Marines in five Humvees mounted with machine guns and a tear gas launcher and two truckloads of French legionnaires were in the tail. • • It was a test of Haiti's shaky democracy in the aftershock of Aristide's flight - prompted in part by a monthlong popular rebellion - and of newly arrived U.S. and French peacekeepers. • • Aristide militants who have attacked protesting opponents in the past said they too would march Sunday to demand the return of the exiled leader who says he was forced from power by the United States. • • A confrontation seemed inevitable. • • Try Aristide! Jail Aristide! protesters yelled, demanding he stand trial for alleged corruption and killings committed by his militant supporters. • • As the number of protesters swelled to thousands, the peacekeepers got hemmed in. • • When marchers converged on the central Champs de Mars plaza, gunfire erupted. Many witnesses said they saw Aristide militants start the shooting. • • U.S. Maj. Richard Crusan said three Marines fired in the direction of the attack. We are unaware that any action was taken to other reports of shooting. We are still reviewing that information, he said. • • Among five people killed were Spanish television correspondent Ricardo Ortega. Dozens were injured, including South Florida photographer Michael Laughlin. • • On Monday, doctors struggled to treat dozens of people injured in Sunday's protest. • • There was not enough medication or staff to treat all those injured despite the dramatic arrival of a French Air Force helicopter - which landed in a crowded street - delivering emergency supplies to Port-au-Prince's main private hospital. • • Sunday's was the first armed action by U.S. forces sent a week ago to stabilize Haiti, and the worst attack since Aristide fled the country on February 29. • • Many of the victims were shot with high-velocity bullets from weapons like M-16s and M-14s, orthopedic surgeon Ronald Georges said. • • • • • • • • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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