The situation in Haiti's Port-au-Prince slum of Cité Soleil does not sound good:

Jordanian peacekeepers backed by Haitian police set up 21 checkpoints at entrances to the slum and searched cars and pedestrians entering and leaving the area for illegal guns, said Lieutenant-Colonel Elouafi Boulbars, a UN military spokesman. Troops in armoured cars rumbled along the slum's edge before starting a slow incursion into the densely populated area....The operation, the first major offensive by UN forces in the capital, came amid a surge in violence that has killed hundreds since September, including two UN peacekeepers. The 7,400-member Brazil-led UN force has vowed to confront armed groups after being criticized for inaction more than a year after an uprising ousted Mr. Aristide....disarming the gangs in the winding streets of Cité Soleil will be far more difficult for UN peacekeepers than dealing with the former soldiers - bands of aging, loosely organized men armed with rusty rifles. "It's like going into an urban jungle," UN spokesman Damian Onses-Cardona said. "You cannot enter Cité Soleil with tanks. It requires a more targeted action."