Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, asked the international community an “specialized armed force” in order to stop endemic insecurity and the humanitarian crisis that affect the gangrenous country.
Le Monde with AFP
The day after an appeal from Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General (UN), to the deployment of an international armed force in Haiti to help a “paralyzed” country, thousands of Haitians have demonstrated, Monday October 10, in Port-au-Prince, to protest against the government.
The demonstration in the capital was enamelled with violence, scenes of looting and the police used tear gas to disperse the crowd, noted a correspondent from the France-Presse agency (AFP).
Several people were shot and a person was killed, also noted the AFP correspondent. The organizers accused the police of being behind this death. “This young girl did not represent any threat. She was killed by expressing her desire to live in dignity,” denounced a fortunate protester who wished to keep anonymity.
“interference” of the States- United and Canada
“The United States and Canada do interference in Haiti’s internal affairs,” said another demonstrator. “We certainly need help to develop our country. But we do not need boots. In addition, this government has no legitimacy to request military assistance. We oppose this option,” a- he added.
Haiti has been the theater for several weeks of violent demonstrations and looting, after the announcement by Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, of an increase in fuel prices. Demonstrations calling for its resignation, and which are now opposed to its call for international aid, also take place in other cities in the country.
The Haitian government has formalized its request to the international community on Friday for an “specialized armed force” in order to “stop, throughout the territory, the humanitarian crisis” caused by the action of the gangs, which gangrene the Country.
Sunday, UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, “urged the international community (…) to examine in an emergency” this request. He denounced in a letter to the members of the Security Council “the criminal bands which took control of strategic infrastructure, such as the international port of Port-au-Prince and the main fuel terminal in the [Varreux]”.
To this situation of hydrocarbon shortage is added the resurgence of cholera, three years after the end of an epidemic which had killed more than 10,000 people. Already 32 confirmed cases of the disease and sixteen deaths have been identified for the period of 1 er on October 9, according to a report given Monday by the Haitian Ministry of Public Health, which also cites 224 suspicious cases , especially in the civil prison of Port-au-Prince, the largest prison center in the country.