Haiti gang leader 'Barbecue' would take part in peace talks but resist foreign peacekeepers
The gang leader who has become the face of Haiti's descent into lawlessness and violence has said he would consider calling a ceasefire only if his consortium of armed gangs was included in international talks on the country's future.
The gang leader who has become the face of Haiti's descent into lawlessness and violence has said he would consider calling a ceasefire only if his consortium of armed gangs was included in international talks on the country's future.
Jimmy Chérizier, the former police officer better known via his nomme de guerre "Barbecue," spoke to Stuart Ramsay, the chief correspondent for the U.K.'s Sky News, which like NBC News is owned by Comcast.
He warned that a foreign peacekeeping force would be treated as enemy fighters and meet armed resistance, and that a recent pause in violence was merely a technical halt.
"There is nothing calm, but when you’re fighting you have to know when to advance and when to retreat," Chérizier said in the interview, which aired Friday.
"I think every day that passes we are coming up with a new strategy so we can advance, but there’s nothing calm. In the days that are coming things will get worse than they are now," he said.
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