Port-au-Prince, April 5, 2024 [AlterPresse] — On Thursday, April 4, 2024, armed bandits kidnapped and murdered in the commune of Vèret, department of Latibonite, lawyer from the Saint Mark bar Jean Eddy Rousseau and lawyer from the Gonayiv bar Richard Pauléus. It is in the locality of Savari, Komin Vèret, bandits with guns kidnapped these 2 lawyers who were on the way to Saint Mark. There are 2 other people, who were with the 2 lawyers, bandits with weapons released later, according to the information obtained by AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
On Thursday, April 4, 2024, the national police said they arrested Anthony Jean-Pierre, better known as “Palaki”, who is associated with the “team H” gang and weapons operating in Mòn Oje, a locality in the municipality of Jakmèl, department of Southeast . The “Team H” armed gang is involved in murders, rapes of women, burning people’s houses, according to what the national police reported.
The United Nations has decided to put 12 million dollars into its special emergency fund. This money is supposed to go to humanitarian organizations to help several families, who are forced to move in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and in the department of Latibonite, because of the terror of gangs and guns. This is what the spokesperson of the Secretary General of the United Nations announced in a press statement on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
The month of April 2024 has been a month since there have been no flights to and from the international airport of Port-au-Prince or the small airport of Port-au-Prince. It’s been a month since the international port of Port-au-Prince, where ships used to unload and ship various types of products, was closed, due to the depredations of gangs and weapons. It is a very heartbreaking situation, because there is a risk of drug withdrawal, poisoning and other types of products.
Sanctions by the United Nations Organization, against gangs and weapons and all those who support them in buying weapons and bullets, have not yielded adequate results. Gangs and guns continue to buy guns and cartridges from the United States, passing over the border with the Dominican Republic, to repel terrorist acts, until they have control over more territory in the country of Haiti. There are not enough control provisions on the borders, nor in the customs, nor on the docks, to prevent the trafficking of weapons and bullets, which is spreading on the territory of Haiti. This is what a group of United Nations experts said in a report on the results, the sanctions would be on gangs and weapons and all those who support gangs and weapons with money and other clans.
The Ministry of National Education has announced that it has passed the 2023-2024 school year calendar, due to the violence and terror of gangs and guns.
The official examination of the 9th grade, which was to be held in June 2024, should be held between Monday 22nd and Wednesday 24th July 2024. The Baccalaureate exams, which should have been held in June 2024, should be held between Monday 5 and Thursday 8 August 2024. The State Normal School exam for female teacher students and male teacher students and the Family Education Center student and student exam should be held between Monday 22 and Friday 26 July 2024.
Civic education, physical education and sports, art and beauty education, education in technology and production activities, are among the mandatory exams students will have to write this year.
The Ministry of National Education promises to help students find the right basis to pass the exams, through all kinds of learning programs on radio, on television, on USB keys, on the Internet. These special learning programs will be held with the presence of teachers everywhere, especially in the Western department and all other areas that are subject to acts of violence and terror by gangs and guns.
Protecting the education rights of all the children of Haiti is an emergency. It is the only way to allow children and young people, men and women, to properly prepare for tomorrow. It is the short cry of the Ministry of National Education, which raises the voice against all the attacks, gangs and weapons they are trying to do against schools and universities.
From Thursday, February 29, 2024, the terror of gangs and guns will intensify. Gangs and guns kill many people, national police. They attacked, burned, destroyed police stations. They destroyed schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, pharmacies and food warehouses. In addition to the gunshots that are breaking out, day and night, in several neighborhoods of the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, which has forced many people to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere.
Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas have become a prison, where the entire population is under the control of gangs and guns. Due to this situation, there must be adequate actions that are carried out without delay to bring relief to the population. It is the short cry of the independent expert of the United Nations for human rights in the country of Haiti, the American native William O’Neill, who was speaking this week before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
There is a danger that a terrible massacre will take place on the population of Haiti. The more time we take to come up with quick action on what is happening in Haiti, the more the population will suffer more acts of violence and terror at the hands of gangs and guns. This is the warning of the permanent representative of Haiti to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Justin Viard.
We advise the natives of Haiti to go to sea to seek undocumented entry into the United States. There are too many tragedies that have already happened in these embassies. The US immigration authorities are sending back to Haiti all migrants, men and women, who would take the sea to enter the territory of the United States without papers. For this reason, we advise all those who are interested to seek a visa to travel to the United States. It is the statement of the US secretary of state for internal affairs of the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas, who says that the US government remains passive about everything that is happening in the country of Haiti, at the moment.
For the month of March 2024, there are more than 13 thousand native migrants from Haiti, the government of the country in America has sent them back here. These native groups of Haiti return to a time when the country of Haiti is facing security problems, health problems, political crisis and unprecedented poverty, where many schools are forced to close. It is a situation that leaves many children of the country in despair, who are forced to run to seek a better life in other countries. It is collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). [ppsf emb rc apr 05/04/2024 14:15]
