Haiti announces new measures to combat gangs after thousands of demonstrators require security

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Haiti Transitional Council Leader announced on Thursday to take measures to rise gang violenceRecognizing that the country “became hell for everything.”

Fritz Alphonse Jean spoke the day after the shooting of the Prince Port-au-Prince was erupted because thousands of demonstrators are demanding the end of a gang of violence clashed with the police Outside the Council and Prime Minister Office.

It was the biggest protest since The Council has been installed a year ago.

“The Haitian people, you talked, and we heard you,” Jean said. “We understand your misery. We know your pain and your suffering.”

More than 4,200 people were recorded killed over Haiti from July to February, and another 1,356 injured, according to UN

The recent violence of the gang has also left more than 60,000 people without homeless people in a month, the International UN International Organization for Migration.

“This national address comes to the decisive moment for the transition government,” said Diego to Rin, an analyst with the International Crisis Group. “Protesters from different parts of the capital deliberately marched towards key government buildings to express their frustration.”

He noted that Jeans address marked the first anniversary of the political agreement, which determined the new structure and goals of the transitional government. Since then, cohesion between political parties involved in the creation of that government “now collapsed,” Rin said.

“Groups originally supported this government now call on the leadership of the lead,” he noted.

The Council did not deal with these concerns, which performed the international community.

During his public address, Jean sounded from the list of the fourth that Gangs recently attacked.

“You lost our homes, you lost your jobs, you lost your job, they raped you, raped your children. Criminal gangs killed a lot of people,” he said. “The fight against darkness is not insignificant. But we weren’t negligible … It’s nothing compared to the battle we fought to get out of slavery.”

Jean stated that Haiti was the first free Black Republic of the Haitian Support Motion, asking them to help the law enforcement and gang enchanting, especially children.

“Don’t let people benefit from your distress and pull you in bad directions,” he said.

Jean said the Council would take over “important measures” to help completely efficiently violence, including the allocation of the special budget and the involvement of agents from the Armed State Ecological Group known as BSAP.

“The Council asks the Prime Minister and the police to take over these measures without delay,” Jean said. “We all speak to everyone in this government we are in the war.”

Jean did not provide further details, including how much money will be allocated for the budget and how much BSAP agents would joined the fight against gang.

Jean also said that the Title Council works so that Haiti can have a new leadership after the concept of the transitional presidential council ends 7. February next year. He added that officials undertake steps so that the diaspora can vote in what the first general elections would be held in almost a decade.

Haiti hasn’t had a president yet Former President Jovenel Moïse was killed in July 2021. years, With gangs become more powerful in after screen.

Last year, The mission without the support he led by Kennian police arrived in Haiti To help local authorities suffocate the gang violence, but the mission remains sufficient staff and insufficiently, with only about 40% 2,500 staff originally provided.

That Rin noted that in his entire speech, Jean emphasized the transnational dimension of Haiti’s security crisis, emphasizing that the problem of gang is part of a broader problem that includes money laundering and drugs that stretches several countries.

“By burning the Haiti’s gang problem as a question of transnational crime that transcends Haiti boundaries, the president wants to gather international support for further security that suits escalating threats,” he said.

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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico.