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Hello, I'm Lequesse Burak, and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC OS Conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences. This time it's Haitians on living

amid the latest gang violence. The country is in a state of emergency, its leader has resigned, and armed gangs continue to make many areas unsafe.

We'll be hearing from Haitians caught up in this latest violence and aid

agency workers discuss how they keep going.

While you know we can't think about you know how much longer can we sustain this and can we you

know go on it's serving the effective populations that keeps us motivated and that

inspire us to you know stay here and deliver. A significant tipping point happened the other day in Haiti

when gangs attacked the main prison in the capital Porto Prince,

leading to thousands of inmates escaping.

Police stations were also targeted, as was the Capitol's International Airport and Port.

It's set off a chain reaction that led to the Prime Minister

being unable to return to the country and ultimately standing down. As we heard

in these messages from three people living in Haiti, it felt extremely

dangerous.

I'm bit at our bell and my zone is the entourou. They're everywhere around me. I live

near the police station and I'm worried. I'm very afraid. I feel the gangs are going to

destroy the national police station. They want to de-arm the police. They want to

take over the police station. The zone we're in is at risk. My life this past week is

reduced to going to work, the supermarket, and then returning to my house. I have two children

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