Canadian military aiding embassy in Haiti includes elite unit: sources
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Global Affairs says military members are currently working with the Canadian embassy in Haiti to assist with "contingency planning" as violence in the country escalates.
Members of Canada’s elite special forces unit are at the embassy in Haiti’s capital city, Global News has learned.
Members of Joint Task Force 2, the highly-trained counterterrorism unit, have been preparing to deploy for the past two weeks as escalating gang violence in Haiti reached dangerous levels, sources have said.
Some are now at the Canadian embassy in Port-at-Prince, sources say.
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) told Global News Friday that military members are currently working with the Canadian embassy in Port-au-Prince to assist with “contingency planning,” but did not offer further details.
The agency adds that the Department of National Defence (DND) will not speak to specific numbers of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel in Haiti “for operational security reasons.”
Canadian special forces have been deployed to Haiti before, and to countries like Afghanistan where they helped evacuate embassy staff in 2021.
“The Government of Canada continues to monitor the deteriorating situation in Haiti and is exploring options to help Canadians in Haiti, working with partners and likeminded governments,” GAC says.
Haiti has been gripped for weeks by unrelenting gang attacks in the latest escalation of months of fighting, leaving it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. A state of emergency and nightly curfew was extended earlier this month as key state institutions were attacked.
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