The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCNDH) says it has counted at least 150 people killed and 92 injured in Port-au-Prince, from November 11 to 18, 2024. This toll, according to the High Commissioner of UN human rights activist Volker Türk is the result of gang violence that led to the forced displacement of around 20,000 others during the same period.
THE HAITI FACTOR, November 21, 2024._The United Nations communicated on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, their assessment of the violence perpetrated by armed gangs against the inhabitants of several neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, at least 150 people were killed in one week in Haiti. These murders, he said, were recorded more precisely in the metropolitan region, from the period running from November 11 to 18 of the current year.
He persisted and signed that at least 55% of deaths from simultaneous and apparently coordinated attacks in the Capital resulted from exchanges of gunfire between gang members and police.
Adding to the murders, Volker Türk, through a press release, also said he had identified at least 92 injured due to armed violence by Haitian gangs and around 20,000 internally displaced people.
The real toll “is probably even higher”, he imagined while taking into account the increase in recent days in cases of collective lynching in Port-au-Prince and its surroundings.
While he predicted the worst, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urges government authorities to act quickly to prevent the country from falling into general chaos.
“The latest outbreak of violence in the Haitian capital is a harbinger of worse to come. However, gang violence must be curbed quickly because Haiti must not sink further into chaos,” he said.
Remember that according to the Executive Director of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH), Pierre Espérance, at least 45 members of armed gangs were killed by the National Police of Haiti and Members of the population of the various neighborhoods of Port -au-Prince. These bandits were killed during an attempted invasion in Pétion-Ville, foiled by Haitian law enforcement.
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