The United Nations said Thursday the Brazilian general who
commanded the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti committed
suicide.
Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, was found dead of
a gunshot wound Saturday at his hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's
capital.
"The UN Mission in Haiti now says that the official cause of
death of Lt. Gen. Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, the
late force commander, was suicide," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric
said. "That was also the conclusion of the Brazilian
investigation."
A senior UN official told The Associated Press on Saturday that
the general shot himself in the head.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva led a ceremony in
Brasilia, the capital, on Wednesday honoring Bacellar, whose body
was then was flown to Rio de Janeiro for burial. He left a widow
and two sons who live in the United States.
Dujarric said he had no details on why Bacellar committed
suicide.
(Chinadaily.com via agencies January 13, 2006)
