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| Protests over food prices paralyze Haitian capital |
| 2008-04-09 |
| Haitians erected fiery barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices, which have killed five people, paralyzed the impoverished nation's capital. Some demonstrators in the city carried empty plates to show the government they had nothing to eat. U.N. peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to control the angry mob after the protesters used large steel garbage containers as battering rams to try to smash the gates of the palace in downtown Port-au-Prince, witnesses said. |
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