Port-au-Prince, May 11, 2022 (AFP) – A total of 148 people were killed in clashes between rival gangs, north of the Haitian capital, between late April and early May, a defense organization said. Tuesday. human rights.
“At least one hundred and forty-eight people have been killed, including seven thugs executed by their bosses,” said the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDHH), following an investigation into gang-affected neighborhoods.
Condemning “an unprecedented massacre of cruelty”, RNDDH reported that people were killed by white and firearms. Other victims were burned alive “in their burning homes” or “in the streets, with tires”. “Most of the murdered women and girls have been raped before.”
The organization condemned the existence of a mass grave containing 30 bodies buried by one of the gangs because the bodies left on the street were rotting.
Nine thousand residents of the affected neighborhoods have fled warfare between gangs that has devastated Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods for decades, but has increased their control over the city in recent years, increasing murders and kidnappings.
The government did not comment on this siege of the capital, which blocked safe exit to the rest of the country.
source: Noticias
