Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Thousands of protesters clashed with the police on Wednesday as the rush was denied gang violence And he asked for the government to guard them.
Some protesters of the market, while others stabbed a tree or waved palm trees, while they saw their streets of Port-au-Prince, where schools, banks and other companies were closed.
Flame tires blocked the roads as protesters sang “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, and get them out!”
One of the organizers, who covered his face and give his name out of retaliation, said the purpose of the protest “took the premiere office and burned on the CPT”, referring to the CPT “, referring to the offices Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti.
It is the first major protest that hit the administration Alix Didier Fils-AiméTo whom the Council appointed for Prime Minister in November.
As the protests gathered outside his office, the police fired tears and scattered them, although some refused to run and instead boarded rock officers.
Dissatisfied and anger spreads as gangs that already control 85% of Port-au-Prince looting once calm communities on offer to take advantage of the control over even territory.
A recent Bandi violence He forced more than 60,000 people to refuse his homes in one month, he says the International UN International Organization for Migration.
“We never noticed such a large number of people moving in this short time,” said Grégoire Goodstein, the head of the organization in Haiti.
Visit Port-au-Prince in early March, William O’Neill, Human Rights Commissioner in Haiti, was described as a “outdoor prison.”
“There is no safe way to enter or leave capital except by helicopter,” he said. “The gangs attract the previously secure neighborhoods, killing, rape and burning houses, companies, churches and schools.”
The gangs also looted the communities outside the port-au-prince.
On Monday, They attacked the city of Mirebalais in central haiti. They broke the prison, releasing more than 500 prisoners because hundreds of residents fled homes.
A recent UN report They discovered that more than 4,200 people were killed from Serbia, and another 1,356 were injured.
O’Neill called on the international community to do more to support the mission that supports without the head with Kenyan police that helps Haitian officers.
However, the mission has only about 40% of 2,500 imaginary and was struggling to hold gangs.
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The associated press journalist Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed to Puerto Rico.
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2025-04-02 18:51:00
