Haiti: demonstration against police violence suppressed by the police

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Demonstrators who demanded this Monday, July 6, 2020 in Port-au-Prince respect for human rights and an end to police violence. AFP Photo / Estailove ST-VAL

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A new citizen mobilization was forcefully dispersed by the police in Haiti. Protesters demanded their right to live and an end to the impunity enjoyed by armed gangs. In the past two months, 54 homicides have been perpetrated in the Haitian capital alone.

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With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Amélie Baron

"  Nou vle viv  " We want to live in Creole. This is the claim displayed on the t-shirts and placards during the demonstration gathered outside the Ministry of Justice in Port-au-Prince, because as young activists like Pascale Solages deplore, life expectancy in Haiti is , according to them, 24-hour renewable: "  Today in Haiti, we don't live. We try not to die ! It's different. Every day when we get up, we try not to die, indignant the young woman . We try to spend these 24 hours to be able to live the next day.  "  

While the group was calm, without any overflow, suddenly the tear gas canisters rained. Present on the spot Marie Rosie Auguste Ducéna, of the national network of defense of the human rights, denounces a state repression: "  Every day, people are assassinated by bullet or by white weapon in the underprivileged districts in full street or in their residence. The state authorities, instead of listening to the voice of the people who demand a security climate, prefer to show their will to establish a totalitarian regime on peace where freedom of expression has no place . "

It has been two Mondays in a row that the mobilizations of citizens demanding justice and security have been suppressed. Calls for explanations from the Haitian national police remain unanswered for the time being.

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