The UN warns of “heavy” human rights in Haiti as an illegal weapon passing star-news.press/wp

The constant flow of illegal weapons smuggled in Haiti encourages an increase in the gang violence and leading to severe human rights abuse, according to the UN report published on Thursday.

More than 4,200 people were killed from July to February, and another 1,356 injured, in which he found the report. It was issued after William O’Neill, the Human Rights Commissioner in Haiti, recently visited the problematic Caribbean country.

Although most violence acquitted the coalitions known last year as “VIV Ensamin”, the growing number of people kill self-defense and mafia, including Gunmen tried to attack the community in the capital Port-au-Prince, the report said.

It was also determined that the number of people were killed and injured by the authorities that fight gangs “remained extremely high.”

More than 2,000 people were killed during the police business from July to February, an increase of 60% compared to 1,253 murders from February to July 2024.

Several 73% of victims of the killed laws were allegedly gang members, but 27% were not connected to gangs and often hit wanderers while in the streets or at home, “he said in the streets. He noted that in some cases, the police opened fire from armored vehicles “in which people were walking or selling goods on the streets”.

It was also said that the police were involved in the summary of the execution of suspicious gang members, their families, “or an individual who were intercepted, could not provide identification or offer enough explanations for their presence in the area.”

The report stated that almost 1,000 firearms belonging to Haiti State Police in the last four years, and that reliability sources said officers sold weapons in the black market.

The police spokesman did not immediately return a message that searches for a comment.

The report states that gangs receive illegal weapons from private security companies that use them.

All in all, the estimated 270,000 to 500,000 illegal weapons circle through Haiti.

“The use of these firearms encouraged the destructive cycle of violence in Haiti, leading to severe human rights abuse,” said the report.

The detection and exploitation of illegal weapons remains a challenge that is stated in the report of serious insufficient and implication in Haiti’s customs and police departments, as well as lack of resources and technology together with corruption and lack of supervision.

He noted that the mission supported without the UN cited by Kennian police to help fight gangs on Haiti only about 40% for the envisaged 2,500 staff.

One District Keyan, Samuel Tomi Kaeuai, was killed in February In the central artebotite region of Haiti. Another officer, identified Haiti’s government as Benedict Kabir, is considered dead After being gone When the gangs attacked their group on Monday, because they tried to save the Haitian police stuck in the ditch that officials believe were intentionally excavated.