Operation Uphold Democracy

Operation Uphold Democracy
	; Soldiers of C Company, 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry, 10th Mountain Division securing Port-au-Prince Airport on the first day of Operation Uphold Democracy.
Date	19 September 1994 – 31 March 1995; (6 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location	Haiti
Result	Military regime in Haiti deposed
Belligerents
United States; Poland; Argentina; CARICOM Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Guyana; Jamaica; Trinidad and Tobago;	Haiti
Commanders and leaders
Bill Clinton; George A. Fisher Jr.; Sławomir Petelicki; Enrique Molina Pico; Jean-Bertrand Aristide	Raoul Cédras; Michel François; Émile Jonassaint; Robert Malval
Strength
25,000 total troops	Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 killed, 1 wounded	301 killed

Operation Uphold Democracy was a multinational military intervention designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The operation was effectively authorized by the 31 July 1994 United Nations Security Council Resolution 940.

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