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Jamaican students
protest penalties
on college tuition
Hundreds demonstrate against a decision to remove
students from registration lists for late payments
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Police
fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse
more than 800 students protesting
their university’s decision to take stu
dents off registration rolls for failing
to pay tuition on time.
The students blocked the en
trances to the University of the West
Indies in Mona, a suburb of the Ja
maican capital of Kingston, forcing
the suspension of classes. Six stu
dents were treated for tear gas inhala
tion, but there were no serious in
juries, police said.
Wednesday was the third day of
protests against the administration’s
decision to take 2,800 students off
registration rolls for failing to pay the
Jamaican $120,000 (U.S. $2,000)
yearly tuition by Sept. 3.
“If it takes marching around this
campus until the walls fall down, we
won’t stop,” said Damion Crawford,
president of the University Guild of
Graduates.
University officials had agreed to
extend the deadline to Oct. 16, but
students complained that still wasn’t
enough time. University officials
were meeting Wednesday to discuss
options, said Joe Pereira, an adminis
tration official.
About 11,000 students are enrolled
at the Mona campus, according to the
Web site of the university, which also
has campuses in Barbados and
TVinidad and Tobago.
Education Minister Maxine Henry
Wilson said the government would
not get involved in the dispute.
“We believe that the question of
timely fees rests with the administra
tors,” she said.
Aristide supporters
on beheading spree
in Haitian capital
U.N. makes 75 arrests for the deaths of at least 19
foreigners murdered by ex-president loyalists
BY AMY BRACKEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Enraged
supporters of ousted President Jean
Bertrand Aristide armed themselves
with machetes, guns, rocks and bottles
and roamed a downtown slum, threat
ening to behead foreigners after U.N.
peacekeepers and Haitian police arrest
ed dozens of people Wednesday.
As gunfire crackled and two helicop
ters roared overhead, peacekeepers in
armored personnel carriers moved into
Bel Air, hying to put down a campaign
by Aristide loyalists who have carried
out gory beheadings in imitation of
Iraqi insurgents.
Wednesday morning, the headless
body of a man lay in the street in La
Salines, a seaside slum. Last week,
three police officers were decapitated
when Aristide supporters stepped up
protests demanding his return from
exile in South Africa, launching what
they called “Operation Baghdad.”
One angry man in Bel Air thrust a
gun into the face of an Associated
Press reporter Wednesday, yelled ex
pletives against President Bush and
U.N. peacekeepers, then screamed:
“We are going to kidnap some Ameri
cans and cut off their heads. ”
At least 19 people have been killed
in Port-au-Prince. Relief workers say
the violence could paralyze attempts
to feed tens of thousands of people in
the northwest port city of Gonaives,
which .was devastated by TYopical
Storm Jeanne last month.
Aristide loyalists had sealed off
Bel Air, a warren of concrete homes
overlooking the National Palace in
Port-au-Prince. In Wednesday’s op
eration, U.N. troops and Haitian po
lice surrounded the district, search
ing cars and people at checkpoints
near torched cars that residents were
using to keep them out.
Police Director Renan Etienne said
they detained 500 people for ques
tioning during the sweep of Bel Air,
but found no weapons.
“They were all bandits .... They had
been firing at police,” Etienne said.
Police spokeswoman Jesse Coicou
said 75 people were arrested.
On Tuesday, a dozen young men
and children in Bel Air shot a man
and tried unsuccessfully to hack off
his head, accusing him of spying for
rebels who overthrew Aristide, said
Ninger Napoleon, a reporter for
Radio Antilles.
The troops and police withdrew
from Bel Air Wednesday morning,
leaving deserted streets to men and
boys armed with various weapons.
They lit bonfires to block roads with
torched cars, tires, mattresses and
old furniture.
“We demand Aristide’s return,”
they said.
Interim Prime Minister Gerard La
tortue — whom protesters have
threatened to behead also — accused
pro-Aristide street gangs of instigat
ing the violence. Aristide supporters
say the police started it by firing at
unarmed protesters.
“This threatens to paralyze all the
humanitarian efforts we have in Go
naives. It’s extremely serious,” said
Anne Poulsen of the U.N. World
Food Program.
She said the unrest had scared
away workers from the port, strand
ing 2,430 tons of food there.
The government has only 3,000
ill-equipped officers to police a
country of 8 million people, and the
Brazilian-led U.N. peacekeeping
force has 3,000 troops — well under
the 8,000 promised.
Associated Press writer Stevenson Ja
cobs contributed to this report from
Gonaives.