Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide staged a massive demonstration Tuesday in the capital Port-au-Prince to demand the return of their leader, reports reaching here said.

The demonstrators blocked one of the main roads to the capital with improvised barricades and burning tires.

Police forces tried to disperse the protesters, who responded with barrages of pelted stones.

The international peacekeeping forces deployed in Haiti Tuesdayshot at a taxi that disobeyed an order to stop, killing the driverand wounding a passenger in the capital of Port-au-Prince

The incident cast a shadow on the country's situation, when themultinational force assured in a statement that order and security were returning to Haiti.

The United States and France deployed military forces in Haiti to restore order while former supreme court chief Boniface Alexandre was officially appointed interim president on Monday.

Aristide, who was forced to leave Haiti on Feb. 29 and currently in exile in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, insisted on Monday that he was still Haiti's president.