UN: Crisis in Haiti worsens daily

By James Blears

More than 1,500 people have been killed during the ongoing violence, chaos and mayhem so far this year, which is tearing apart the very fabric of Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, which is becoming all the poorer in every respect.

This is according to the UN's Human Rights Division. It stresses the situation has chronically worsened,  since the street gangs formed alliances, combining to attack the International Airport, blockade the docks of Port Au Prince the Capital,  and systematically attack police stations, describing the combined horror as: "Cataclysmic." 

The report states that 4,451 people were killed last year. And 1,554 this year, up to March 22nd.

These involve reprisal murders, lynchings, stonings, burning, crossfire killings and even worse, as the mostly unchecked gangs ran rampage.

They control more than eighty percent of the besieged Capital, which is beseaching with an SOS, for international help, via intervention. 

The UN report blames corruption, impunity, poor governance and the gangs, who have eroded law and order to the extent that Institutions have descended to a level close to total collapse. 

Ariel Henry, who has been Prime Minister since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021 and cannot get back into Haiti, after visiting Kenya to appeal for an international peace keeping force, says he will step down, once a Transitional Council is established. But that still hasn't been achieved.