The UN now says 207 people were killed in a suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince earlier this month.
The United Nations has increased the number of people who died in Haiti recently, saying that their investigation found that 207 people were killed. killed by a gangincluding many elderly and Vodou religious leaders.
In a report published on Monday, the UN office in Haiti detailed the events that took place between December 6 and 11 in City of Wharf Jeremie in the area of Cite Soleil, on the coast of the city of Port-au-Prince.
The report found that the group took people from their homes and places of worship, interrogated them and then “killed” them with bullets and machetes before burning their bodies and throwing them into the sea.
Earlier this month, human rights organizations in Haiti compared this more than 100 people were killed of the incident, but a new UN investigation confirmed that 134 men and 73 women were killed.
“We cannot pretend that nothing has happened,” said María Isabel Salvador, the special representative of the UN secretary general in Haiti.
“I call on the justice system in Haiti to thoroughly investigate these horrific crimes and arrest and punish the perpetrators, as well as those who support them,” he said in his statement.
The Haitian government acknowledged the killing of the elderly in a statement released earlier this month, and promised to prosecute those responsible for the “unspeakable murder”.
The UN Security Council issued a statement on Monday condemning the recent terrorist attacks and expressing its “grave concern” over the crisis in Haiti, citing food shortages and food shortages. recruit child criminals.
Insecurity and isolation
Insecurity is at its worst in Haiti to date The UN recently ordered some of his employees to leave the country or move from the capital to safer areas.
The country is becoming increasingly isolated after Port-au-Prince airport was closed to passengers planes are being shot at.
The UN is debating what to do in Haiti after an international security force led by 400 Kenyan police officers struggles to restore law and order.
One option that is being considered is a return to the peacekeeping operation, although the results are mixed with those previously deployed, including the “stabilisation” operation, MINUSTAH, which started in 2004 until it left in 2017.
'King Mikanor'
Human rights groups in Haiti said Wharf Jeremie the killing began the son of Micanor Altes, a local rebel leader, died of an illness.
Witnesses told the groups that Altes, who is also known as “King Micanor”, accused the people of the area of causing his son's illness by bewitching him.
In a report on Monday, the United Nations said that people were found in their homes and in places of worship by the Altes gang, where they first questioned them and then took them to the place where they would be killed.
The killings are the latest tragedy in Haiti, where terrorist violence has escalated since the country's president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in Haiti. 2021 trial.
The Caribbean country is currently governed by a transitional council that includes representatives of business, civil society and political parties, but its government is unable to control much of the country's capital, and gangs regularly fight over ports, highways and neighborhoods. .
According to the UN, more than 5,358 people have been killed in the armed conflict in Haiti this year and 2,155 others have been injured. More than 17,000 people have been killed or injured in violence in Haiti since the beginning of 2022.