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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

UN calls for foreign intervention in Haiti as violence surges

A parent, carrying his child after picking him up from school, runs past police carrying out an operation against gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, earlier this month.
A parent, carrying his child after picking him up from school, runs past police carrying out an operation against gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, earlier this month. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP

The United Nations has called for the deployment of an international “specialized support force” to impede Haiti’s accelerating tumble into extreme violence after more than 530 people were killed in the opening weeks of this year.

“Clashes between gangs are becoming more violent and more frequent,” the spokesperson for the UN human rights office, Marta Hurtado, warned on Tuesday, voicing “grave concern” that the security situation was spiraling out of control.

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