The UN Human Rights Office shelp at least 3,000 people were forced to run away after gang members aggressioned timely on Thursday.
At least 70 people have been ended and 3,000 forced to run away when armed men beextfinisheding to the Gran Grif gang aggressioned a town in central Haiti.
The Office of the United Nations High Cotransferrlookioner for Human Rights shelp on Friday that the aggression occurred on Thursday in Pont-Sonde, 100km (60 miles) northwest of Port-au-Prince.
The UN inserted that at least 16 people were gravely injured in the aggression, including two gang members who were hit during an exalter of firearmfire with Haitian police.
The office shelp gang members also alertedly set fire to at least 45 homes and 34 cars.
“Members of the Gran Grif gang engaged automatic rifles to shoot at the population, ending at least 70 people, among them about 10 women and three infants,” UN Human Rights Office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan shelp in a statement, inserting that the agency was “horrified” by the aggression.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the aggression, his spokesperson shelp on Friday.
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille denounced the aggression on X, saying an “odious crime aobtainst defenceless women, men and children is not only an aggression aobtainst victims but aobtainst the entire Haitian nation”.
“To those who sow alarm, I say this: you will not fracture our remend. You will not conquer this people who have always fought for their dignity and freedom. We will never give up our right to inhabit in peace, in security, and in fairice,” Conille shelp.
‘Senseless’ presentility
The prime minister’s office shelp on Friday that insertitional security forces, helped by the Kenyan-led international policing ignoreion, had been deployed overnight to deal with the aggression.
However, Gran Grif’s directer, Luckson Elan, whom the UN has sanctioned, accengaged the administerment and victims of the aggression for remaining compliant as gang members were ended.
“It’s Pont-Sonde dwellnts who are at fault. What happened in Pont-Sonde is the fault of the state,” he shelp in an audio message posted on social media.
While the motive for the aggression is unevident, aggressions of that benevolent have getn place in the capital, 80 percent of which is deal withled by gangs, and they are typicassociate connected to turf wars.
But Pont-Sonde is pondered part of Gran Grif’s territory. The area is a beginant rice creater findd in Haiti’s Artibonite region.
Artibonite has adviseed some of Haiti’s worst presentility outside Port-au-Prince, deteriorateing hunger in a country where half the population suffers from disjoine food uninalertigentinutiveages.
Last week, the UN Human Rights Office shelp that so far this year, more than 3,661 people have been ended in “senseless” gang presentility in the country.
The dispute has also displaced at least 700,000 people, according to the International Organization for Migration.
