At least 45 armed bandits were killed by the police in Canapé-Vert, Bourdon, Delmas 60 and Pétion-Ville, among others, on the morning of Tuesday November 19, 2024. This provisional report was communicated in the middle of the day by the Director Executive of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH), Pierre Espérance during an interview given to the press.
THE HAITI FACTOR, November 19, 2024._The toll of armed bandits shot dead on Tuesday by the police in concert with the residents of Bourdon, Delmas 60, Canapé-Vert and Pétion-Ville is increasing.
If at the beginning of the morning, the deputy spokesperson of the PNH, Lionel Lazarre reported 18 bandits killed, three Kalashnikovs seized and two vehicles intercepted including a truck which transported armed men to Pétion-Ville, the figures climbed to more than 30, a few hours later.
For his part, in an interview given to several media in the Haitian capital, the Executive Director of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights, Pierre Espérance, said he counted at least 45 gang members.
They were recorded in Canapé-Vert where several charred, fragmented corpses were found at the Carrefour located near “Tag Market”.
Others litter the streets of Boudon, Delmas 60, near the Villa d’Accueil and in Pétion-Ville, more precisely on rue PanAmérique.
In Canapé-Vert, the police and the population, armed with machetes, remain mobilized by barricading every nook and cranny of the area against any possible response from the gangs.
The Human Rights Defender says he welcomes the “Police-population” marriage aimed at tracking down the country’s armed gangs to put them out of harm’s way.
Pierre Espérance also took advantage of his media outing to ask armed young people (girls and boys) to rebel against their leaders to avoid being killed alongside them because their days are numbered.
« It’s too much. The country and the Haitian population are fed up with the insecurity that has prevailed in the country for ages,” concluded the Executive Director of the National Human Rights Defense Network.
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