(25 Jul 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince - 25 July 2023
1. Various of displaced people seeking refuge around the U.S. Embassy
2. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Melanie Limose, displaced:
“We don’t have any where to stay. The bandits kicked us out of our home. They rape us even if we are old, even the little ones they rape them also, I had to run to come here last night. I had a fever, I was trembling I never experienced anything like this. We are in misery.”
3. Various of women with children, elderly people, men outside the U.S. Embassy
4. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Darline Daphnis, displaced mother of three:
“There is no authority who came to talk to us, no one came to take their responsibility to saying any word to us, but we are here because the bandits kicked us out, yesterday I want to go see if I could take some clothes for the children, the bandits made me run under the bullets.”
5. Various of women feeding their children, others sleeping and people seeking refuge
6. Various of police patrolling neighborhood affected by gang violence
7. Wreckage of burned truck
STORYLINE:
Gang violence in Haiti’s capital on Monday forced families to flee their homes and seek refuge at the gates of the U.S embassy.
A heavy gunfight began on Monday evening and continued until Tuesday morning with residents blaming the Kraze Barye (Breaking Barriers) gang. It has been operating in and out of the Tabarre neighborhood since the beginning of the year.
There has been no official confirmation from the police or any other authorities regarding which gang was involved or whether people were killed or wounded.
The U.S embassy compound in Port-au-Prince occupies a whole block in Tabarre and is heavily fortified. For people fleeing their homes, it acts as a temporary safe space.
Families, including children and the elderly, camp on the grass in front of the embassy's main entrance, while consular services remain open on the other side of the building.
Police officers with armored vehicles and holding assault weapons went into Tabarre on Tuesday morning. It is unclear if the area is safe again, and when the families at the embassy will be able to return to their homes.
A U.N. Security Council report released in April said that “gang expansion into areas previously considered safe… has been alarming.”
More than 165,000 Haitians have fled their homes with nowhere to turn, amid the surge in gang violence.
AP video shot bv Pierre Luxama
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