P-au-P, 06 from 2024 [AlterPresse] — Several Haitian human rights organizations are calling for coordinated actions by the Haitian National Police (Pnh) and the embryo of the Haitian Armed Forces (Fad’h) in the face of the intensification, since the night of Wednesday May 1, 2024, attacks by armed gangs in several neighborhoods in lower Delmas and surrounding areas, such as Nazon, Solino, Delmas 24 and Delmas 18, in interviews on the AlterPresse/AltterRadio platform.
The perpetration of these criminal acts takes place in a context of controversies, which rebound the political crisis around the choice of leaders of the transition, barely initiated on Thursday April 25, 2024 with the official installation of the Presidential Transitional Council at the National Palace , deplore these Haitian human rights organizations.
“When armed bandits attack neighborhoods, forcing several families to flee their homes to seek refuge elsewhere, it is another revolting and abominable act of human rights violation. This is an additional ordeal for the population, already faced with different types of problems without any help or assistance from state institutions,” criticizes the executive secretary of the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (Pohdh) on AlterPresse/AlterRadio. , Alermy Piervilus.
As a consequence of the public management crisis that Haiti has been experiencing for several years, this reality of thousands of people displaced by the terror of armed gangs requires immediate institutional arrangements, wishes the Pohdh.
“The number of people forced to leave their homes to escape the violence of armed gangs is increasing every day in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The Pnh and the Fad’h must take urgent measures, guaranteeing the rights of the population to live peacefully at home,” urges the Pohdh.
“We feel devastated. We are tired of continuing to call for help in the face of the acts of terror by armed gangs, which left several people injured, on the night of Wednesday May 1, 2024, in the neighborhoods of Nazon, Solino, Delmas 24 and Delmas 18 », Estimates the Organization of Citizens for a New Haiti (Ocnh), interviewed by AlterPresse/AlterRadio
“The population, which is suffering more from this crisis of public management, does not know who to turn to in the face of the ills which overwhelm them. The quantity of terrorist acts is increasing. Human rights are increasingly being violated,” notes the executive director of Ocnh, Camille Occius.
Pnh agents and Fad’h soldiers should arm themselves with courage and determination to protect the population, increasingly subjected to acts of terror and violence by armed gangs, particularly since Thursday February 29, 2024 in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Ocnh calls for an acceleration of the deployment process of Multinational Security Support Mission (Mmas)with the aim of helping Haitian security forces to thwart acts of terror by armed gangs.
On the evening of Wednesday, May 1, 2024, many people, including heads of families, accompanied by young children, rushed to abandon their homes to seek refuge elsewhere.
In one month, several dozen people fled the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, because of the terror of armed gangs.
From Friday March 8 to Tuesday April 9, 2024, 94,821 people left the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince to take refuge in provincial towns, because of the violence of armed gangs.
From January to March 2024, more than 2,500 people have been killed or injured due to armed gang violence, an increase of 53% compared to the quarter from October to December 2023, according to a report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh). Since 2023, armed gang violence has caused the displacement of around 400,000 people, most of them in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince. [ppsf rc apr 06/05/2024 10:00]
