Haiti's slums

From the Miami Herald:

The fight to restore stability in Haiti has narrowed down to a messy, low-grade war in the capital's most forsaken slum, Cité Soleil, where residents are regularly caught in gunfire between U.N. peacekeepers and partisans of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

The slum of 250,000 people is deserted of cars, whole blocks have burned and fallen to rubble and residents don't even flinch when machine-gun fire shatters the sleepy heat of an afternoon...

...No one knows how many people have died since March because neither police nor peacekeepers pick up the bodies, and residents say many of the dead are simply dumped in the hills north of the city.