Haiti cops have conducted an operation in a capital neighborhood controlled by the notorious gang leader Jimmy Cherizier (left) that left several criminals dead, an official said today.
Haiti cops have conducted an operation in a capital neighborhood controlled by the notorious gang leader Jimmy CherizierPolice have struck back against a feared Haitian gang leader who promised 'civil war', as violence in the Caribbean country showed no sign of abating.
National police units entered the Delmas neighborhood on Friday evening with the aim of unblocking a road, said Lionel Lazarre of the Haitian police union. Pictured: Police officers during an operation in the surrounding area of the National PenitentiaryOfficers also tried to regain control of the capital's main port in another operation this morning.Ongoing violence has meant the port has been shut since March 7.
Officers also tried to regain control of the capital's main port in another operation this morning. Pictured: A protestor in the streets of Port-au-Prince The Prime Minister resigned on March 11 but is not in the country after he travelled to Kenya last week to negotiate a UN-backed multinational police mission in an attempt to stabilise his country.
The country has a long, brutal history of foreign interventions, from a 20-year American occupation in the early 1900s to a deadly cholera outbreak linked to a UN peacekeeping mission in the 2010s.The violence also has left more than 15,000 people homeless, in addition to some 300,000 Haitians who lost their homes to gang wars in recent years.
Food shortages are also hitting the area and some 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than 4 million require food aid according to aid groups.
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