Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Haiti: gang war in Cité Soleil, "the population is taken hostage"
Audio 7:30 p.m.
The facade of the Doctors Without Borders clinic in the town of Delmas, Port-au-Prince.
© VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP
By: Mikael Ponge
2 mins
Gang violence continues to rage in Cité Soleil, a slum west of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Tens of thousands of people are trapped in these clashes between criminal gangs.
"
It's catastrophic
", according to the NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF).
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Cité Soleil, a slum in fire and blood.
Gang warfare has been raging in this town west of the Haitian capital for almost two weeks.
About 300 people were killed according to the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH).
"The inhabitants of the Brooklyn district in particular are trapped and can no longer go out when they lack drinking water and food"
, as described to us by Jean-Gilbert Ndong, coordinator of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.
"The population is taken hostage",
he explains,
"if nothing is done, people will die of hunger and thirst, all the actors must agree to find a favorable outcome",
insists Jean-Gilbert Ndong.
According to the Haitian press, the government of Ariel Henry would consider setting up a humanitarian corridor to deliver aid to families.
But the Nouvelliste reminds us:
“for the moment it is only a project”.
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.
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