“This is the face of Haiti today: a country at war, a modern-day Guernica, a human tragedy.” From the podium of the UN General Assembly, Haiti’s transitional leader delivered a stark plea to the international community.
At the heart of his speech was the urgency of breaking free from spiralling violence, alongside a call to close what he described as two centuries of historical injustice.
Laurent Saint-Cyr painted a bleak picture: murders, gang rapes, famine and more than a million people displaced.
“It is a war between criminals who want to impose violence as the social order and an unarmed population struggling to preserve human dignity,” he said.
Armed gangs now control much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and continue to spread terror nationwide.
