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UN WARNS OF ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN HAITI GANG WAR

UN WARNS OF ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN HAITI GANG WAR
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Avellon Williams 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned Tuesday about the impact of the recent wave of violence between gangs in Port-au-Prince.

In the last three weeks, 188 people have been killed in clashes, including 92 civilians and 96 gang members. Although there have been reports of beheadings, burning of corpses, and murder of minors, including those who are thought to be informers for rival gangs, the actual death toll may be much higher.

UN Michelle Bachelet /Image, UNN/

“Armed violence has reached unimaginable and intolerable levels in Haiti,” she said, urging local authorities to take urgent action to restore the rule of law, protect citizens from armed violence, and punish financial and political sponsors of gangs.

To date, the Haitian authorities have reported 12 people missing, 113 citizens injured, 49 people kidnapped, and more than 9,000 people displaced from their homes and placed in temporary shelters.

The fragility of the Police, the Judiciary, and other public institutions “has fueled anarchy“, Bachelet said, expressing her fear that the violence will only get worse.

Congestion on the two highways connecting Port-au-Prince with the north and east of Haiti has been slowed by conflict, a situation that could have long-term devastating effects on the country’s economy.

There has been a confrontation between the 400 Mawozo and Chen Mechan gangs since April 24 in the Culde-Sac plain, a large region to the north of Port-au-Prince that is divided into the communes of Tabarre and Croix-des-Bouquets.

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