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Diversity is Haiti's strength. /sarc


https://www.rt.com/news/621001-un-haiti-capital-collapse-gangs/

Heavily armed gangs now control most Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince,
and the city is on the brink of total collapse, a senior UN official has warned.

Violence is escalating across the Caribbean nation while the
international response remains slow and fragmented, Ghada Fathi Waly,
executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, told the UN
Security Council on Wednesday. According to UN statistics, at least
5,600 people were killed in gang-related incidents in 2024 alone.

Haiti has been without a president since the assassination of Jovenel
Moise in July 2021, leaving a power vacuum that has allowed armed gangs
to expand their influence unchecked. In the absence of a functioning
central government and with weakened state institutions, the armed
groups have grown in strength, seizing territory and increasingly
operating as the de facto authorities across the country, particularly
in the capital.

”Organized criminal groups have gained practically total control of the capital – approximately 90% of Port-au-Prince is under their grip,” Waly told the council.

The gangs “are continuing to establish their presence along strategic
roads and border regions,” expanding attacks not only into surrounding
areas but also into previously peaceful territories.

”Southern Haiti, which until recently was insulated from the violence,
has seen a sharp increase in gang-related incidents,” Waly said. “And in the east, criminal groups are exploiting land routes, including key
crossings like Belladere and Malpasse, where attacks against police and
customs officials have been reported.”

Criminal groups are setting up their own “parallel governance
structures.” Their control over key trade routes has crippled legal
commerce, driving up the cost of essential goods such as cooking fuel
and rice.

Earlier this week, the UN’s International Organization for Migration
reported that the ongoing crisis has displaced a record 1.3 million
people across the Caribbean state. The IOM noted that the number of
makeshift shelters has skyrocketed by more than 70%.

According to AP, the Kenyan-led, UN-supported mission in Haiti, which
arrived in 2024 to help curb gang violence, has remained understaffed
and underfunded, with only around 40% of the planned 2,500 personnel
currently deployed. The news agency also noted that in February, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed providing drones, fuel,
transport, and other non-lethal assistance to bolster the mission, but
the plan has stalled in the Security Council.
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First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past
was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your
homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.
Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final
phase of the Kalergi Plan.

‘The quiet that follows an exchange of missiles should not be mistaken
for peace. It is often the eye of the storm.’

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