At least 89 people have died in clashes between gangs that have paralyzed part of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince for a week, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, announced on Wednesday.
“At least 89 people were killed and another 16 are missing,” the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights said in a statement, adding that the partial balance of the violence includes “74 wounded by a knife or a knife.”
The police do not intervene
Since Thursday, bursts of automatic weapons crackle throughout the day in Cité Soleil, the most disadvantaged and densely populated commune in the metropolitan area: two gang factions face each other there without the police, lacking men and equipment, not intervening.
Along the slum corridors that have formed there over the past four decades, thousands of families have no choice but to hide in their homes, unable to get food or water.
Some neighbors are victims of stray bullets even inside their modest homes, built with simple metal sheets, but ambulances cannot circulate freely in the area to help the wounded.
“We call on all belligerents to allow the passage of aid to Brooklyn (name of the Cité Soleil district where the violence is concentrated) and to spare civilians,” urged Mumuza Muhindo, head of mission of Doctors on Wednesday. without Borders.
Source: BFM TV
