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Newshour: 11/03/2024 21:06 GMT: Caribbean leaders hold emergency meeting on Haiti

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Caribbean leaders hold emergency meeting on Haiti

11/03/2024 21:06 GMT

11/03/2024 21:06 GMT: Caribbean leaders hold emergency meeting on Haiti

BBC World Service - Newshour, Caribbean leaders hold emergency meeting on Haiti

Gang violence is dragging Haiti into anarchy

Gang violence is dragging Haiti into anarchy.

The US State Department says it's trying to expedite the deployment of a UN- backed multinational police force to Haiti where gang violence is dragging the country into anarchy. A resident of the capital, Port-au-Prince, tells us that he has a bag packed ready to flee, if the gangs show up in his neighbourhood. And we speak to Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations, who is at the Caribbean Community meeting in Jamaica, about what needs to happen to stop the violence.

Also in the programme: a rare interview with a man who gave up being a farmer to become the commander of a rebel group fighting the military junta in Myanmar; and the Oscar winner who said "I wish I never made this film".

(Photo: Police patrol a street after authorities extended the state of emergency amid gang violence that has threatened to bring down the government, forcing thousands to flee their homes, in Port-au-Prince. Credit: REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol)

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