The head of human rights of United Nations, Voker Türkcalled this Wednesday for measures to strengthen the Haitian police and support for the multinational security mission in Haitibefore the wave of violence that the capital suffers Port-au-Princewith at least 150 dead and 92 injured since last week.
“The new wave of violence in the Haitian capital it is a harbinger that the worst is yet to come. The violence of bands “must be stopped and the country must not be allowed to descend further into chaos,” the high commissioner said in a statement.
The episodes violent, caused by new attempts by the bands to achieve complete control of the capital, have also caused the Flight of more than 20,000 people from their homes.
“The four million population of Port-au-Prince They are literally hostages of the bandsnow that they control the access roads to the capital,” stressed the Austrian high commissioner.
With the new confrontations, the number of deceased for the violence of bands so far this year it is at least 4,544 according to figures from United Nationswhile the deceased They rise to 2,060 and internally displaced people in the country are around 700,000, half of them children.
“This violence Endlessness and widespread insecurity are increasing the desperate humanitarian crisis in the country, with serious shortages of food and drinking water and spread of infectious diseases at a time when the health system is on the verge of collapse,” Türk said.
He Security Council of the UN debate this Wednesday the Government’s request for Haiti to transform the Multinational Security Mission (MMS) present in the country in a classic “blue helmet” peace force, although with little sign of prospering due to the opposition of Russia and China.
The UN temporarily suspended the delivery of humanitarian aid in the country due to the impossibility of access to the port and airport in the capital, due to the serious deterioration of security
