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UN Deploys Haitian Police as Peacekeepers in Chad

  • Posted on: 19 March 2009
  • By: Bryan Schaaf

Usually when you read an article about peacekeepers in Haiti, it concerns how many are on the ground.  In a bit of a role reversal, the Miami Herald reported that the United Nations will deploy a group of Haitian police as peacekeepers to Chad.  The yearlong assignment involves monitoring Chadian police responsible for refugees from the war in neighboring Darfur.