Haitian prime minister meets Kenyan police officers ahead of UN-backed deployment

(26 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 26 June 2024
1. Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille and National Security Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kenya, Monica Juma, arriving
2. Conille and Juma speaking
3. Various of Conille and Juma greeting and talking to policemen
4. Conille and Jume greet policemen
5. Various of Kenyan policemen watching
6. Various of Juma addressing Kenyan policemen
7. Various of armed Kenyan policemen
8. Various of Conille and Juma with Kenyan policemen posing for photos


STORYLINE:
A couple of hundred Kenyan police officers met Wednesday with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille as they prepared to deploy in the upcoming days.

Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to battle gang violence choking the Caribbean nation.

The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived Monday.

Later, police and soldiers from the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad, and Jamaica will join them, making a total of 2,500 personnel.

Previous interventions have gone awry. The U.N.'s 2004-2017 peacekeeping mission was marred by allegations of sexual assault and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people.

Prime Minister Garry Connile said during the visit that the Kenyan president and the Kenyan population were "behind us,"

But Kenya itself is in great turmoil as thousands of protesters stormed Kenya's parliament on Tuesday to protest tax proposals.

Human rights groups say that 20 people were killed in the protest.

On Wednesday, Kenyan President William Ruto said he won't sign the finance bill into law.

Rights groups and others have questioned the use of Kenyan police, pointing out the years of allegations against officers of abuses, including extrajudicial killings.

AP Video shot by Pierre Luxama

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