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P-au-P, August 20, 2024 (Alter Presse) — The security emergency was originally declared on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 It was renewed and extended for one month, from Monday, August 19, to Thursday, September 19, 2024, covering four geographical departments in western Haiti, among which the metropolitan area of the capital Port-au-Prince, Artibonite in the Central Plateau and Nipce (part of southwestern Haiti), according to the online agency AlterPresse.
The state of emergency also covers the regions of Plaisance and Limbe (North), as specified in a decree published on August 12, 2024 in the official newspaper Le Moniteur , but which became public on Monday, August 19, 2024.
The document bears the signatures of nine members of the Presidential Transition Council (Cpt), including Three consultants, Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles and Emmanuel Vertilaire, were named in the attempted corruption case.
It is published against the backdrop of: Multiple attacks on Solino, Delmas 24 and its surrounding areas (in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince)and other cities.
Despite the government’s declaration of a security state of emergency since July 17, 2024, 14 cities controlled by Haitian gangs remain in a state of security.The municipalities of Gantir, Cabaret, Greciel and Carrefour continue to suffer attacks by armed gangs, causing numerous victims and considerable damage.
The new decree authorizes the transitional government to order the implementation of measures set out in the intervention plan aimed at restoring public order, social peace and security in the above-mentioned sectors and regions.
Special precautions
In the absence of other means of protection, order the closure of facilities and evacuation of personnel in sectors and regions, as appropriate, and take necessary measures to relocate displaced communities and provide them with supplies as necessary. Measures that the Transitional Government may consider.
It has the power to control land, sea and air traffic routes in the above-mentioned sectors and regions and implement any economic assistance program deemed necessary by the victims.
The suspension of certain basic services, such as road, sea, air and telephone communications, in the provinces and regions affected by the state of emergency, and the requisitioning of additional means of rescue and accommodation belonging to private individuals, if the logistical situation makes the means of providing public services insufficient, may be resorted to by the Transitional Government.
In the absence of other means of protection, he may order the construction or demolition of works and the movement of any property in the above-mentioned sectors and areas.
Should we prepare for the worst?
With some of these seemingly extraordinary precautions, will the ruling team hope to take the initiative this time around, or will it rather expect the security situation to deteriorate, given its apparent inability to combat armed gangs?
For this powerless Government, does not the extension of the state of security emergency to the Central Plateau and Nippes provinces, as well as the Plaisance and Limbe regions, reflect the worsening climate of terror in the country?
In recent years, there has been an increase in criminal and terrorist acts by armed groups, including assassinations and violence against women and children.
On Monday, August 19, 2024, thousands of residents from several communities including Solino once again demonstrated in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Princecondemning the multiple attacks by armed groups on several areas of Port-au-Prince since Wednesday, August 14, 2024.
On Sunday, August 18, 2024, armed gangsters from criminal organizations launched a new attack on the Solino community, setting several houses on fire Living together.
Some families were forced to abandon their homes and seek shelter elsewhere.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, August 6, 2024, about 10 people were killed and another person was injured by bullets in the cities of Cabaret and Arcahie. (more than 40 kilometres north of Port-au-Prince on National Road 1), armed groups launched new attacks.
From January 2024 to July 2024, Violence by armed gangs has left at least 66 people murdered or missing in the Carrefour and Grecier neighborhoods (south of the capital, Port-au-Prince)counted the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (Rnddh) in a report dated August 15, 2024.
Rnddh Among the victims were four Haitian National Police (Pnh) agents, 15 women, a minor and 12 elderly people.
46 women and girls were victims of sexual violence.
Monday, July 22, 2024 and Tuesday, July 23, 2024, for a total of 3,830 people (985 households) displaced by gang attacks Chapter 400 Against the Gantir Communerecorded the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (emb rc 2024-04-20 10:45)
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