The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk the head of the UN Integration Office in Haiti (BINUH) Maria Isabel Salvador, and Christo Dupuoy, special representative to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) have all issued urgent pleas this week calling for the deployment of an international security force to Haiti to assist the Haitian National Police (PNH) in dealing with the uncontrolled upsurge in gang violence, killings, kidnappings and rapes that have occurred during the first quarter of 2023, intensifying the grave humanitarian crisis.
The gangs are themselves creations of internationally controlled drug-running networks, part of the London-run “Dope, Inc.” apparatus—a fact which none of the above reports touches upon.
The reports issued by OHCHR and BINUH for the first quarter of 2023 are horrific enough, documenting acts of “extreme cruelty” committed by gangs against the population, with 1,634 victims killed, abducted or injured compared to 674 for the same period a year ago. Gangs now deploy snipers and move into areas and start shooting randomly to kill as many people as possible—beheadings, lynchings and burning people alive are not uncommon. No one is safe. It’s estimated that 80% of Port-au-Prince is controlled by gangs, and now gang violence is extending into other regions such as the Artibonite Valley.
