'There's no police or state': Haitians helpless as violence and brutality soars

[Eugene]

Related: "Living a Nightmare": Haiti Needs an Urgent Rights-Based Response to Escalating Crisis (Human Rights Watch)

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Source: The Guardian

‘There’s no police or state’: Haitians helpless as violence and brutality soars

Human Rights Watch says country unable to protect citizens from killing and rape by armed gangs, and floats overseas peacekeepers

Luke Taylor
Mon 14 Aug 2023 18.43 BST
Last modified on Mon 14 Aug 2023 19.12 BST

Human rights abuses in Haiti are soaring while the Haitian state is almost nonexistent and unable to protect its people from the brutality of armed gangs, Human Rights Watch has warned in a new report.

Rival criminal factions now have such a tight grip over the country that international security forces could be necessary to restore order, the rights groups said.

HRW investigators documented 67 recent killings by armed gangs in its report, “Living a Nightmare” including the murders of 11 children and 12 women. It also verified more than 20 cases of rape – many of them committed by multiple perpetrators to sow terror among the population.

“Urgent action is needed to address the extreme levels of violence and the palpable fear, hunger, and sense of abandonment that so many Haitians experience today,” said Nathalye Cotrino, crisis and conflict researcher at HRW.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/haiti-violence-abuse-killing-human-rights-watch

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[Judi Lynn]

1. If foreign troops return to "protect" Haitians again, let's hope they won't exploit,

rape, and torment them as they did the last time they did, after the hurricane, the earthquake, the cholera outbreak, the relentless suffering, and upheaval, resulting in no improvement of living conditions and health standards, but instead a continual descent into deepening degrees of helplessness, dispair, disease, violence, and poverty so great, Haitian mothers were pressed to gather dirt and mix it with sugar and water, and a binder like fat, and make "cookies" for the children to eat to at least make their tummies feel fuller, for the moment. Dirt cookies, while they starve to death.

The world of Caucasians will never forgive Haitians for being hurt so wildly by their French plantation slave owners that they felt they could take NO MORE, and had to fight to be free of the pain. That's the choice the white world gave them. Either suffer until you drop dead in your tracks, or fight, and live to see your children and their children suffer wildly, as well, before you all die of deprivation, hunger, and grief.

What happened at the hands of the "blue helmets" last time they "kep the peace" in Haiti was monstrous.
Now it's time to bring them back so Haiti is, at least, safe for the elite oligarchy sector which controls the people and the entire country.