Haiti's Gang War Continues
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Special Correspondent Marcia BiggsPBS
•An inside look at how gang warfare in Haiti has devastated daily life
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Despite a UN -approved security mission that deployed in June to try and restore some order, large swaths of the country remain under gang control.
The United Nations Security Council met today to discuss the violence and whether to upgrade a police mission deployed earlier this year to a peacekeeping operation.
Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor traveled there for a look at the depth of the crisis.
Cite Soleil is the front line between the G9 and G-Pep gangs, nicknamed the Death Crossroads .
At every turn are footprints of homes burned down now marked by string.
Over 700,000 people in Haiti are now homeless because of gang violence.
With no running water or soap, disease and pests run rampant.
Marcia Biggs is a freelance journalist, focusing on international conflict and humanitarian crisis.
She contributes regularly to The PBS NewsHour , reporting most recently on the crisis in Haiti .
Her work has won numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award , Gracie Allen Award , and two Emmy nominations.
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