"We are a people of 12 million being held hostage by about 2,000 bandits", Haitian Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy told FRANCE 24 in an interview when asked about gang violence in the country. She vowed that the Haitian government "will not back down" against armed gangs, in the wake of a massacre by the "Gran Grif" gang that left 177 people dead, including children, in a small town on October 3. But "the international community needs to understand that the support we need needs to come now," she insisted.
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