It was around 6 o’clock the morning when Venique Moïopened its doors. the door of her house and she saw dozens of people running – with their children in one hand and their few belongings in the other – while the gunfire intensified.
Minutes later, he joined her. He walked into the crowd with his three children and fled. of the neighborhood of him in the capital of Haiti & ı; as fires burned nearby, collapsing homes where hours later the bodies of nearly 200 men, women, and children were found, shot or mutilated with machetes by warring gangs, along with craniums. Bones and bones of the victims set on fire at the end of April. “That Sunday, when the the war, I felt I was going to die”, Moïse said.
The gangs fight each other. and they take over territory in the capital Port-au-Prince with a new intensity and brutality. The violence has horrified many who feel the country is shrinking. The United Nations is rapidly unraveling as it tries to recover from the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and the United Nations is preparing to discuss the future of its long-standing presence in Haiti.
They praised that the scale and duration of gang clashes, the power criminals wield and the amount of territory they control have reached unprecedented levels.
The gangs have caused the closure of schools, shops and hospitals while raiding new neighborhoods, taking control of the main roads that connect the capital with the rest of the country and kidnapping victims daily, including eight Turkish citizens. who are still held captive, according to authorities.
They are also recruiting more children than before, giving them heavy weapons and forming temporary alliances with other gangs in an attempt to seize more territory for economic and political gain ahead of the country’s general elections, he explained. Jaime Vigil Recinos, United Nations police commissioner in Haiti.
“Its amazing,” told AP, noting that clashes between gangs are becoming protracted and ruthless affairs. “We are talking about something that Haiti has to deal with. has not experienced before”.