At least 60 people died in just eight days and 50 are missing due to clashes between armed gangs in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) organization said Monday.
The fighting continues in the city, gunfire is heard, so the figures from the non-governmental organization (NGO) RNDDH are only a provisional balance of the deaths that occurred between February 24 and March 4 of this year, due to of the conflict between two alliances of armed groups fighting for control of the territory, the G9 and the GPEP.
According to the executive director of the RNDDH, Pierre Esperance, there is still no data on the violence registered in the Solino neighborhood, a until now peaceful area that the G9 wants to conquer.
The center of the Haitian capital has been experiencing an increase in tension for days due to this war between gangs.
Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes to escape the fighting, dozens of whom took refuge in the homes of relatives for fear of the creation of “displaced camps” that could later also be attacked.
As videos circulating on social networks show, hundreds of houses were set on fire and, in addition to the dead, there are people with serious burns as a result of these criminal fires.
Due to these circumstances and the increase in kidnappings, several schools in Port-au-Prince closed their doors today until further notice.
In the last week there were dozens of kidnappings, not only of students and parents of students, but also of people who were in their own homes.
Despite the tension, the Haitian authorities have not issued statements or announced measures to end gang fights.
This deterioration of the situation occurs after months marked by a worsening of the socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti, an escalation of violence and the reappearance of cholera, which has caused around 600 deaths in the country since last October.
All of this led the Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, to request last year the dispatch of a foreign force, a request that has not yet received a concrete response.
Source: TSF
