The United Nations chief is urging the international community to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs with sophisticated weapons and restore security to the impoverished Caribbean nation.
, with experts estimating they now control some 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince. There are only about 10,000 police officers for the country’s more than 11 million people, and more than 30 were killed from January to June, according to Human Rights Watch.
“Gangs have become more structured, federated, and autonomous in their efforts to confront state authority, weakening state institutions, and consolidating control over the population,” the secretary-general said. “They target police stations, courts, prisons, schools, hospitals, and strategic installations such as ports, oil terminals and major roadways.”
Since its offer, Kenya’s police force has come under scrutiny especially by human rights watchdogs, for alleged killings and torture, includingAs the U.S. was considering Kenya to lead the force, it was also openly warning Kenyan police officers against violent abuses. Guterres made clear in the letter that “Haiti’s current context is not conducive to peacekeeping” by the United Nations.
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