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United Nations: The UN chief has warned that if additional international security assistance is not given to the African country Haiti, gangs operating there could capture the country’s capital. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said this in a report released on the deteriorating situation in Haiti. Since then there has been a stir. Let us tell you that this report was released at a time when a meeting of the Security Council is also being held on the situation in Haiti.
Guterres said any further delays in providing additional officers or additional support to the police forces of many countries trying to curb gang violence “risk a catastrophic collapse of national security institutions.” Said that this could give gangs a chance to capture the entire area and would spread anarchy in the entire area. “We must urgently do everything we can to prevent this type of situation from happening again,” he told the Security Council.
It is necessary to control violence in Haiti
The majority of personnel in the multinational police force present in Haiti are from Kenya. An additional 217 officers arrived over the weekend, bringing Kenya’s police force to more than 600, despite the country’s president calling for 1,000 officers to be deployed there. Apart from these, a team of 150 soldiers from Guatemala and eight soldiers from Salvador have also arrived, but still this number is much less than the number of 2,500 officers required to control the violence. Gangs in Haiti have become extremely powerful since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021.
More than 5600 people were murdered in Haiti in 2024
More than 5,600 people were murdered in Haiti last year, according to the United Nations. According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, the number of murders has increased by more than 20 percent by 2023. Guterres is laying out options for the future role of the United Nations in Haiti. Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste told the council that UN peacekeeping missions are very important. (AP)
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