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October 11, 2022

Protesters Reject Call for Deployment of Foreign Forces to Haiti
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In Haiti, several people were shot Monday - at least one of them fatally
- after police fired tear gas on thousands of protesters who took to the
streets of the capital Port-au-Prince. Protesters demanded the
resignation of the U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry and called on
the government to reverse its decision to seek foreign military
assistance.

Jean Levelt: "Unemployment, the high cost of living, insecurity - it is
all for these reasons that I am in the street. I take to the streets to
say no to the occupation."

The United Nations is urging the activation of a "rapid action force" to
Haiti to combat armed gangs that have blockaded the main terminal in
Port-au-Prince, blocking imports of food, fuel and other necessities.
This comes amid warnings of a looming public health disaster after a new
outbreak of cholera emerged this month. In 2010, U.N. peacekeepers
inadvertently sparked a cholera outbreak that killed 10,000 people, and
U.N. forces in Haiti have been accused of sexual violence.


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