In Brazil, a funeral service was conducted Wednesday for Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, the former commander of the UN force in Haiti. Lt. Bacellar was found dead in his Port-au-Prince hotel room Saturday with a gunshot wound to his head. UN officials are calling his death a suicide. He had recently clashed with his UN superiors and Haitian business leaders over his opposition to crack down the poor neighborhood of Cite Soleil. Meanwhile, Brazilian Ambassador Paulo Cordeiro de Andrade Pinto told the Associated Press investigators want to probe other possibilities before confirming Lt. Bacellar’s death as a suicide. Pinto declined to say what those possibilities were.
Brazil Holds Funeral for Slain UN Commander
HeadlineJan 12, 2006