PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
More than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence, officials said Tuesday.
The number of killings
increased by more than 20% compared with all of 2023, according to the U.N.
Human Rights Office. In addition, more than 2,200 people were reported injured
and nearly 1,500 kidnapped, it said.
The Human Rights office, he
said, “documented 315 lynchings of gang members and people allegedly associated
with gangs,” and they also report “281 cases of alleged summary executions
involving specialized police units.”
Volker Türk, U.N. high
commissioner for human rights, said in a statement “these figures show the
unremitting violence to which Haitians are being subjected, adding that
impunity for human rights violations and abuses, as well as corruption, remain
prevalent in Haiti.”
Among those killed last year
are 315 suspected gang members or people associated with them who were lynched
and more than 280 people killed by police in alleged summary executions, the
U.N. said.
Coordinated gang attacks on
prisons, police stations, and the primary international airport have escalated
in Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Gangs are
estimated to control approximately 85% of the capital.
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