According to a report, the trip out of Port-au-Prince involves trying to avoid gunmen and gang checkpoints. Reportedly, more than 360,000 people have been displaced, many have come to Cap-Haitien in the north where there is no gang violence.
According to the report, Phanel Pierre made the journey by bus six months ago, leaving his seven bedroomed house he now lives in a tiny breeze block shack with his wife, two children and his mother in law. Reportedly, he was a business man which made him a target for the gangs. According to the report, they destroyed his business, ransacked his house and tried to kidnap him; his children haven’t been able to enrol in school in their new city.
Reportedly, he said, we need a long term intervention, not just one or two thousand police, referring to the planned deployment of a kenyan led security force in Haiti.