For more than two years, the gangs, which have enjoyed very large impunity, have extended their territorial grip beyond the slums of the Haitian capital.
Le Monde
More than 471 people were killed, injured or missing during the violence that took place between gangs from Sun City, in the suburbs of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, July 8 and 17, alerted the UN on Monday July 25.
“serious incidents of sexual violence against women and girls, as well as boys recruited by gangs, have also been reported,” deplored the United Nations in a statement. About 3,000 inhabitants of this town, the poorest in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, had to flee their home, including “hundreds of unaccompanied children”.
Humanitarian agencies, which began to assist the most vulnerable people, report a very fragile security situation. The UN deplores in its press release the fact that “access to health care [either] limited or non -existent, many health centers being closed and access to the medical staff in the area being limited, while food and food and food Water is lacking “.
For more than two years, the gangs, which have enjoyed very large impunity, have extended their territorial grip beyond the slums of the Haitian capital and multiply the villainous raples.
Several institutions Attacked in Port-au-Prince
Ulrika Richardson, United Nations Coordinator in Haiti, called in the text “all parties to end murderous violence and to remain committed to maintaining a humanitarian corridor open to Cité-Soleil, in order to allow access without Entering humanitarian and medical aid of emergency civilians in need “.
Faced with a national police in need of staff and under-equipped, the criminal bands have, since the beginning of June, attacked key institutions in Port-au-Prince, like the courthouse and the ‘Port administration. His contested legitimacy, Prime Minister Ariel Henry has not yet expressed himself on this outbreak of violence which has notably ravaged Cité-Soleil in early July.
Haiti is stuck in a political crisis from the last elections, which held at the end of 2016. The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse by an armed commando at his home, on July 7, 2021, deeply aggravated the situation.