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After deploying to Haiti in 2010 to help the survivors of the earthquake that leveled the small Caribbean country and killed more than 300,000 people, a small group of dedicated humanitarians founded Boots on the Ground (BOTG-NGO) as an international humanitarian aid organization, to provide those in need with assistance required to sustain ...
- Canada Doesn't Have The Numbers
- Gang Leaders with Big Ambitions
- 'A Fish, Disappearing Into A School of Fish'
- Not Just Shaking Hands
- A City Made For Gang Warfare
- Innocent Bystanders in The Crossfire
If intervention is off the table for now, that would come as a relief to Canada's Armed Forces. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre said this month he doubted Canada could pull off such a mission right now, given its commitments in Europe. The mission is exactly the kind that professional militaries try to avoid. It involves shadowy enemies ...
Port-au-Prince is a mountainous city built around a bay, with about three million inhabitants and some of the world's most crowded shantytowns. It is controlled by a patchwork of dozens of gangs, several of which have grouped together into larger alliances such as G9 and GPep. The country's biggest gangleaders — people like Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizi...
For any outside force, the great challenge will be identifying who is and is not working for the gangs, said John McLearn, who faced the same difficulties as a Canadian infantry officer in Afghanistan. "Your forces have to be there long enough and be familiar enough to to be able to pick out the wheat from the chaff," he told CBC News. In Afghanist...
Bowes said it's very hard to work out who is who in a foreign environment on a short deployment. "It's just not shaking hands on a corner of a street," he said. "It's actually understanding who's a force for good, who's not, who are part of gangs, who are affiliated with gangs, who are maybe not affiliated but certainly under the stress of gangs an...
The geography of Port-au-Prince would make things even harder, said David Redpath, an urban warfare expert who is now senior wargames designer for the Canadian Forces. CBC news reached Redpath at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. "You need to put a lot of troops on the ground in order to secure any sort of area," he said. "If I put a c...
Redpath agreed that the biggest problems facing any intervention force would be human. "The ability of an urban guerrilla, or a gang member in this case, to just disappear and blend in is absolutely the advantage that they have," he said. "I'm not going to hand over my son to a bunch of Canadian troops who come looking for him. I'm going to protect...
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15. Mai 2024 · ‘Expect the first boots to hit ground in Haiti. This time we are serious,’ said a senior official in the Ministry of Interior and Administration of National Government. The elite officers are drawn from Kenya’s police Recce Squad, Rapid Deployment Force and Special Operation Group.
Boots on the Ground (BOTG-NGO) is a 501c3 humanitarian, disaster response, and veterans organization that deploys around the world to help those in need.
12. März 2024 · ‘Haiti needs more than just boots on the ground’. Media reports on Monday said Kenya is now pausing its plans for the support force following the resignation of Mr. Henry, who had in October...
Boots on the Ground (BOTG-NGO) is a 501c3 non-profit humanitarian, disaster response, and veterans organization.
4. Okt. 2023 · Alfred Mutua, Kenya’s minister of foreign and diaspora affairs, told the BBC that he expected to have boots on the ground by the first of the year. He also expects the mission to train Haitian...
