In Haiti, protesters demanded a new government and more security as anger on gangs

Soldier Port-Aur-Prince, Haiti (Image: AP) performs an anti-gang operation in the neighborhood

Port-Aur-Prince: Dozens of protesters marched on the hills of Haiti’s capital on Sunday, seeking to end the gang violence as they called the Prime Minister of the country and the transitional presidential council to resign.
This is the latest opposition to reflect the growing anger and frustration over an increase in violence as gangs try to seize the complete control of Port-A-Prince.
“The only thing that the high -rather people are asking is protection,” Eric Jean said, a 42 -year -old bus driver, with a large high -high -high flag, tied around his neck. “We are losing more neighborhoods, more people are dying, more people are running away from their homes.”
Apart from this, there were Mark Atteen, who joined the protest, who convicted the gang for raiding his small business and leaving him homeless. The 39 -year -old now lives in a squalid, like tens of thousands, forced his homes to flee their homes after surprising their communities.
Etine called for a new government as he convicted the current leaders for the ongoing violence and increased the number of children involved in the gang.
“Haiti cannot be run among friends,” he said. “The city is dying because (council) is doing nothing to improve it.”
Gangs comes a day after a pledge to fight the performance of Sunday when hundreds of people gathered in Port-e-Prince, who recently honored several community leaders killed with the gang.
“freedom or death!” The mischief shouted on Saturday as the leaders of the Canpee-Guart neighborhood entered a small stadium, where the memorial was held.
In the video posted on social media, leaders were shown carrying automated weapons and wearing black T-shirts, which emerged with photographs of those killed. Many people wore Balaklavas to cover their face and protect themselves from potential vengeance by gangs.
Wearing in the white, those who mourned raised their fists and shook hands in the air, because a man on the stage in Haitian Craol, “The blood is not going to be wasted! What is the fight?”
“Just start!” The crowd responded to united.
On the stage, an unknown person said that the community would never forget the slain leaders as they condemned the violence of the gang. “People are dying, and they don’t even know why they are dying,” they said.
Canape-Verd is one of the neighborhood that has so far fallen to the gang that controls at least 85 percent of the capital. It is also known for one of the most powerful neighborhood organizations in Port-AU-Prince, which is included in the part by disappointed police officers.
In early April, Canpee-Quart leaders organized a major protest that became violent, as he also resigned to the Prime Minister of Haiti and its transitional Presidential Council.
The attacks of the ‘indiscriminate and cruel nature’ of Sunday’s performance and other recent protests have reduced the country’s spiral crisis, killing over 1,600 people and injuring 580 from January to March.
In the mid -March, hundreds of people equipped with sticks and matches, along with members of an armed environmental brigade, successfully excluded members of the gang, who had seized control of a Catholic school, according to a new report released by the United Nations Political Mission in Haiti.
But Okser is only one of the successful quarrels against powerful gangs supported by some politicians and some elite of Haiti. Last year, according to the United Nations, more than 5,600 people were killed in Haiti.
Gang violence has rendered more than a million people homeless in recent years. In recent months, gunmen have once targeted a peaceful neighborhood in Port-e-Prince that will provide them with easy access to Petians in a residential area, where banks, embassies and other institutions are located.
In the 1st February attack on Dalmas 30, gunmen “manipulated the population in the neighborhood, killed 21 men and injured eight others,” according to the United Nations report.
According to the report, in a separate attack in a nearby neighborhood, where the French Embassy is located, at least 30 people were killed, many of which were traveling in small colored buses known as tap taps.
Other victims include at least 15 people who were family members of police officers.
The gangs have also attacked several communities in Haiti’s central Artibonite region, which they fled.
According to the Binuh report, “Some of these attacks show the strategy to create an indiscriminate and cruel nature gang strategy and reduce the resistance to the local population.”
Meanwhile, Haiti’s national police is inspired by a non-supported mission led by the Kenai police, the Kenyan police, struggling in his fight against the gangs as the mission has been low and understood, with only 1,000 personnel of 2,500 conceived.
In a push to tighten the gangs, the US government officially nominated Viv Ansanam, a powerful gang coalition, and Gran Griff, the largest gang to operate in the central region of Haiti, nominated as foreign terrorist organizations.
Critics warned that this step could affect the aid organizations working in Haiti at an important time, as many people are forced to interact with the gang to supply people with basic items including food and water.

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