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Caribbean-Latin America
More than 600 people killed in Haiti gang violence in April, UN says
2023-05-09
It’s their culture, man. Don’t dis their culture.
[France24] More than 600 people were killed last month in violence in the capital of Haiti, which is in the grip of a political-economic crisis, the United Nations said on Monday.

"In the month of April alone, more than 600 people were killed in a new wave of extreme violence that hit several districts across the capital," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"This follows the killing of at least 846 people in the first three months of 2023, in addition to 393 injured and 395 kidnapped during that period — a 28-percent increase in violence on the previous quarter."

The Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Americas, has been gripped by a political and economic crisis since the July 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moise, with gangs now controlling most of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#2  RETRO
U.N. chief names Bill Clinton as envoy to Haiti
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-09 10:59  

#1  The problem appears to be resolving itself. Stay out of it !
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-05-09 10:46  

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