Addressing the security situation in Haiti requires a range of coercive law enforcement measures, including the active use of force in targeted police operations against heavily armed gangs in the island nation.
Police try to protect residents fleeing the neighbourhood after gangs took over Carrefour Feuilles, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 15 2023.Police try to protect residents fleeing the neighbourhood after gangs took over Carrefour Feuilles, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 15 2023.requires a range of coercive law enforcement measures, including the active use of force in targeted police operations against heavily armed gangs in the island nation.
Guterres told that Council that nothing short of the “robust use of force” by a capable specialised multinational operation would be able to achieve the restoration of law and order and a reduction in human rights abuses. Laying out the context in Haiti, Guterres’ letter warned that gang attacks were characterised by extreme violence, indiscriminate shooting of people in public spaces, burning people alive in public transportation vehicles, mutilation, executions and sexual and gender-based violence while children were being recruited into these gangs.
The urgency for action from the Security Council and the subsequent deployment of a multinational force, is simply no longer a matter in dispute.
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