Port-AU-Prince, Haiti (AP)-In the Haiti, authorities ordered the night curfew after the violence explosion when gang gunmen left two biggest jails and freed thousands of prisoners over the weekends.
On Sunday night, an emergency of 72 hours began. The government said it would be ready to find the killers, kidnappers and other criminals who had run away.
“Police were ordered to use all legal means at their disposal to implement curfew and catch all criminals,” was said by a statement by Acting Prime Minister Finance Minister Finance Minister Patrick Boart.
The gangs were already estimated to control the capital up to 80% of the capital. They are rapidly coordinating their tasks and selecting unimaginable goals once like the central bank.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry traveled abroad last week to try to resolve support for the United Nations -backed Security Force to help stabilize Haiti in his struggle with a rapid powerful crime groups.
Haiti’s national police have around 9,000 officers to provide security for more than 11 million people, according to the United Nations they are regularly overwhelmed and excluded.
The deadly weekend marked a new low in the spiral under Haiti’s violence. At least nine people were killed from Thursday-four of them police officers-like the gang, carried out coordinated attacks on state institutions in Port-e-Prince, including the International Airport and National Football Stadium.
But the attack on the National Peninsula late on Saturday night gave a shock to Haitian, which is accustomed to living under the continuous threat to violence.
Almost all estimated 4,000 prisoners escaped. Three bodies with gunshot wounds enter the jail on Sunday.
In another neighborhood, two men’s blood bodies lay on the face tied behind the back with their hands, as the residents installed the previous obstacles with a burning tire.
Among a few dozen people, who had chosen to stay in jail, are 18 former Colombian soldiers, who are accused of working as accused in the murder of Higeen President Zavenal Mose in July 2021.
“Please, please help us,” one of men, Francisco Uribe said in a message widely shared on social media. “They are indiscriminately massacre inside the cells.”
The Ministry of External Affairs of Columbia has called Haiti to provide “special security” to men.
A second Port-e-Prince Jail with about 1,400 prisoners also ended.
Bullets were reported in many neighborhoods in the capital. Internet service was below for many residents as Haiti’s top mobile network stated that a fiber optic cable connection was provoked.
After the gang set fire at Haiti’s International Airport last week, the US Embassy said it was stopping all the official visit of the country. On Sunday night, it urged all American citizens to depart as soon as possible.
The Biden administration, offering money and logical support, refused to perform soldiers for any multinational force for Haiti, said it was monitoring the rapidly deteriorating security situation with serious concern.
The bounce in the attacks follows violent protests that had become fatal in recent times as Prime Minister was trying to move forward under the leadership of the East African country on the proposed UN supported security mission to go to Kenya.
Henry took over as Prime Minister after Miss’s assassination and postponed the plan to hold parliamentary and presidential elections, which did not happen in almost a decade.
Jimmy Cherizer, a former elite police officer, known as Barbecue, now runs a gang federation, claimed responsibility for the increase in attacks. He said that Lakshya Haiti’s police chief and government ministers are to capture and stop Henry’s return.
The Prime Minister, a neurosurgeon, has stopped the call to resign and did not comment on being asked if he felt that it was safe to come home.
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