Photos: Haitian Camp Dwellers Evicted
Many in Haiti are left homeless as hurricane season begins.
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Evicted Before Hurricane Season - As hurricane season starts, the mayor of one large Haitian city in the Port-au-Prince region is evicting people made homeless by last year’s quake from temporary camps. The settlements, according to Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas city, have become staging areas for robberies, rapes and other crimes and just aren’t safe. So in recent weeks, he has ordered police and security guards to clear the encampments, leaving hundreds of residents with no place to go. To make matters worse the area has been pounded by pouring rain.(Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Nowhere to Go - Elise Antoine, 27, sits in his tent after being evicted from the Ecole Foyer Saint Famille camp for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake. "We don't know where we're going to go," he told the Associated Press. Mayor Jeudy ordered police and security guards to clear at least three camps last week in this city at the edge of downtown Port-au-Prince. "We can't give people a public square as a gift to set up tents favorable to gang activity," Jeudy said in a radio interview.(Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Mayor: Crime Too Much to Handle - Jeudy ordered police and security guards to clear at least three camps last week in this city at the edge of downtown Port-au-Prince. The encampments cleared last week were in two public plazas and on the grounds of a Catholic school with several hundred families in each. Guards sliced up tents and tarps and tossed people's belongings aside in early-morning raids, several witnesses told The Associated Press. Rosemene Jean Baptiste, 33, lies in her tent after being evicted.(Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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More Evictions Expected - A spokesman for the mayor said they will move 250 families from a soccer field and sports center in Delmas so that the public can use it once again. Here, children play in a camp located at the field of the Dadaou Sports Center in Port-au-Prince.(Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Options - Camp dwellers at Ecole Foyer Saint Famille say their former neighbors moved to other camps or begged to move in with others. A dozen of them stayed because they didn't want to live in an alien neighborhood, so they sleep on muddy scraps of cardboard under a blue tarp. Here, a woman carries a suitcase after being evicted from a camp.(Photo: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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