P-to-P., Jan 31, 2024 [AlterPresse] — Several residents of several blocks continue to abandon their homes in Pernier (east) on the morning of Wednesday January 31, 2024 due to the persistence of violence from armed gangs, according to testimonies collected by the agency online AlterPresse.
Groups of armed bandits tried to prevent them from fleeing by firing into the air.
Unlike the day before, agents of the Haitian National Police (Pnh) carried out, this Wednesday morning, January 31, 2024, interventions in several areas located not far from the National Police Academy, forcing armed bandits to beat in retirement.
Pnh agents were seen on board a tank, in the area of the Police Academy.
Tuesday January 30, 2024, an SOS was launched to the authorities by residents of Pernier and surrounding areas, facing the terror of armed gangs.
Several dozen families were once again forced to abandon their homes in Pernier (east) and Cité Soleil (north), because of deadly clashes between rival armed gangs.
This armed violence forced residents of Pernier to flee at full speed, seeking shelter in other places.
People were reportedly killed in the area, others injured and beaten by armed gang members, according to information reaching AlterPresse.
Several of the people fleeing took refuge not far from the National Police Academy, located on the Route de Frères.
The situation is no different below the city of Port-au-Prince, where the armed group G9 is family and alliesled by former national policeman Jimmy Chérizier, confronts the armed gang of Gpèp.
An intensification of criminal activities by armed groups, particularly in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and in the Artibonite department has been observed for several weeks.
During the year 2023, more than 8,400 people were killed, injured and/or kidnappedreported the United Nations Integrated Office (Binuh)
More than 5,000 people killed in armed gang violence ravaging Haitisaid the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, in a report published on Tuesday January 23, 2024.
Due to armed gang violence, more than 310,000 people have been displaced within Haiti in 2023revealed the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
These thousands of displaced people live with host families or in makeshift or open-air shelters, with little or no humanitarian assistance, deplores the international organization Human Rights Watch.
The executive director of the international organization Human Rights Watch (Hrw), Australian Tirana Hassan, called for an urgent international response against the terrifying levels of violence in Haitiin a speech delivered during a meeting, Thursday, January 25, 2024, at the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) on the crisis in Haiti.
“Each day that passes without a significant increase in international support to respond to all aspects of the crisis puts more lives at risk” in Haiti, Human Rights Watch warns. [emb rc apr 31/01/2024 12:20]
