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===End of operations=== [[File:DD-SD-99-03743.jpg|thumb|President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 1994]] Jean Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti in October 1994 after 3 years of forced exile.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Von Hippel|first1=Karin|title=Democracy by Force|url=https://archive.org/details/democracybyforce00hipp|url-access=limited|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=United Kingdom|pages=[https://archive.org/details/democracybyforce00hipp/page/n109 96]}}</ref> Operation Uphold Democracy officially ended on 31 March 1995, when it was replaced by the [[United Nations Mission in Haiti]] (UNMIH). U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] and Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide presided over the change of authority ceremony. From March 1995 until March 1996, 2,400 U.S. personnel from the original Operation Uphold Democracy remained as a UNMIH-commanded support group under the aegis of [[Operation New Horizons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/new_horizons.htm|title=''Operation New Horizons'', globalsecurity.org 05.07.2011.|author=John Pike|access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> A large contingent of U.S. troops (USFORHAITI) participated as peacekeepers in the UNMIH until 1996 (and the U.S. forces commander was also the commander of the U.N. forces). U.N. forces under various mission names were in Haiti from 1995 through 2000. Over the course of the operation one U.S. soldier, a special forces staff sergeant, was killed. The soldier died after being struck by gunfire at a roadside checkpoint.<ref name="latimes 1995">{{cite web | title=U.S. Soldier Dies, Another Hurt in Gunfight in Haiti | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=1995-01-13 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-13-mn-19558-story.html | access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref><ref name="Girard2004">{{cite book|author=P. Girard|title=Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7e3FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|date=9 December 2004|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-4039-7931-5|pages=127–}}</ref> Three [[Argentine Navy]] corvettes of the {{sclass|Drummond|corvette|4}} joined the mission to force the commercial embargo of Haiti.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.tau.ac.il/eial/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=504&Itemid=216|title=''con el propósito de asegurar el cumplimiento del embargo comercial, dispuesto por el Consejo de Seguridad, por medio de las corbetas ARA Grandville, ARA Guerrico y ARA Drummond.''|access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref>
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