The acts of violence perpetrated by armed groups in Port-au-Prince caused the exodus of more than 53 thousand people in three weeks, revealed the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in its latest report, published this Tuesday, April 2.
A total of 53,125 people were forced to leave the metropolitan area from March 8 to 27, 2024, due to increased violence in the Haitian capital, gripped by a “cataclysmic situation” with armed gangs controlling more than 80% of the population. Port au Prince.
During the first three months, 1,554 people were killed, the UN warned last Thursday in a report, deploring “increasing levels of gang violence » in the small Caribbean country on the edge of the abyss.
“Structural and conjectural factors have led Haiti to a cataclysmic situation,” wrote the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
An unbearable situation for more than 53 thousand people who had to take refuge in other cities in Haiti to escape the cascades of violence.
The IOM, indicating that 68% of these people had already moved within the country, emphasizes that 61% of them headed towards the Great South (Grand Anse, Nippes, South and South-East) .
Also, 1% headed towards the United States while 3% headed towards the Dominican Republic.
According to the authority, 96% of the displaced do not wish to return to the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
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