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Opponents to the government of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide shout and show red cards which read 'Down with Aristide' during a rally in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002. Opposition leaders rallied for a new government, a year after Aristide's supporters torched opposition offices and gunman stormed the National Palace. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
                           
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Opponents to the government of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide shake tree branches while chanting 'Down with Aristide' during a rally in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002. Opposition leaders rallied for a new government, a year after Aristide's supporters torched opposition offices and gunman stormed the National Palace. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
                           
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Evans Paul, center, a leader of the Democratic Convergence opposition coalition, arrives at an opposition meeting commemorating the one year anniversary of attacks by pro-government mobs on opposition political party headquarters and homes all over the country, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002. One year ago, armed men attacked the National Palace. The Jean-Bertrand Aristide government called it a 'coup d'etat' but subsequent investigation by the Organization of American States (OAS) determined it was carried out with police complicity. Government officials encouraged and assisted the mob attacks which followed, the OAS said. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                  
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Supporters of the opposition Democratic Convergence shout 'Judge Aristide!' in front of a banner that says 'We are fed up!' at the burned-out Convergence headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002. The rally marked the one-year anniversary of attacks by pro-government mobs on opposition political party headquarters and homes all over the country. The attacks by government supporters followed the storming of the National Palace by gunman earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                     

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Supporters of the democratic opposition demonstrating in Port-au-Prince, Dec. 17, 2002. They want monstruous Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of the national palace.
                                 

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Evans Paul (with microphone in hand), a leader of the Convergence Democratique or democratic opposition, is disgorging a multitude of extremely unpleasant words that he has for chief bandit Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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