Posted on 01/28/2024 3:52:34 PM PST by george76
UNITED NATIONS — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday.
In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N. Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.”
She said the 8,400 victims of gang violence documented by her U.N. office last year — a 122% rise from 2022 — were mainly targeted by gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Some 300 gangs control an estimated 80% of the capital, and accounted for 83% of last year’s killings and injuries, Salvador said. But, she added, their tentacles have reached northward into the Artibonite region, considered Haiti’s food basket, and south of the capital “gangs conducted large-scale attacks to control key zones,” systematically using sexual violence to exert control.
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Haiti’s National Police are no match for the gangs. Less than 10,000 officers are on duty at any time in a country of more than 11 million people. Ideally, there should be some 25,000 active officers, according to the U.N.
Salvador told the council that although 795 new recruits will join the force in March, about 1,600 police officers left the force in 2023, according to data gathered by her office, further diminishing the Haitian police’s ability to counter gang violence and maintain security.
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The director-general of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said her office also found that a relatively small number of gangs, including the “5 Segond” and “400 Mawozo,” are highly specialized in procuring weapons and moving them to their stronghold before distributing or selling them.
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Let them fight it out.
No, we should send U.S. Marines and occupy the place, because that worked out so well last time.
/s if needed
Kill each person. The only solution to an entrenched gang problem is to kill them in a gun fight.
Charles Ortel called the Clinton Foundation “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud ever attempted” before all the newly-exposed emails from campaign chairman John Podesta’s account were released from WikiLeaks.
The leaks have fortified his findings.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3490392/posts
Klaus Eberwein, a former Haitian government official who was to expose the extent of Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice, was found dead in Miami..
Eberwein was due to appear before the Haitian Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission where he was to testify that the Clintons stole Haiti earthquake donations .
“The Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace,” ~Eberwein said at a protest outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan.
I didn’t know it could go any higher.
No Problemo,
Lots o’ space in Martha’s Vineyard, D.C., Malibu, Madison, etc ...
-fJRoberts-
When will they raise our taxes again so they can give away billions to the corrupt in Haiti? How else are the lawyer politicians in D.C. supposed to get their sizeable kickbacks?
Look, it’s a plane!
No, it’s a bird.
No, it’s Joe Biden, he’s come to snatch up all the guns from bad people in Haiti.
Some of the Green Berets in Haiti had different views than the Clinton administration and were acting on some of their own preferences in regard to which faction kept its arms.
Jack Smith has something more important to do than help 11 million needy black people.
Gang violence has been surging on Haiti since the days of Napoleon.
In my opinion, Haiti should switch over to using French.
Hand Haiti over to the Dominican Republic. Dominicans know what to do. The name Rafael Trujillo comes to mind.
“The biggest economical catastrophe in the department is the Clinton induce low-tariffs on rice coming from the US, destroying the local economy.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artibonite_(department)
Why? They speak Haitian Creole. They have bigger problems than to worry about speaking French.
No wonder the Dominican Republic keeps out Haitians.
“On 1 January 1804, Dessalines proclaimed Haiti an independent nation. Mid-February, Dessalines told some cities (Léogâne, Jacmel, Les Cayes) to prepare for mass massacres. On 22 February 1804, he signed a decree ordering that all whites in all cities should be put to death. The weapons used should be silent weapons such as knives and bayonets rather than gunfire, so that the killing could be done more quietly, and avoid warning intended victims by the sound of gunfire and thereby giving them the opportunity to escape.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haitian_massacre
I would sure like to hear some of those old Green Berets telling us about their little rebellion against who Clinton was supporting and the why of their support for those they were supposed to be disarming.
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