Two journalists were killed yesterday Thursday by a gang operating in a zone on the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The news was broadcast by a radio station for which one of the victims worked.
Vilgen Luisen and Amadi John Wesley were killed in a shootout, the’s employer, Radio Radiocoute FM, told AFP.
A third journalist, who accompanied them, was able to escape, according to the same source.
The killings were recorded while in Haiti in recent months the control of heavily armed gangs has spread in areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
In the area of ​​Labul 12, where the three journalists had gone for reporting yesterday, battles are raging between various gangs that want to secure its control.
A road that passes through there is the only alternative road to move to the southern part of the country. The highway has been under full control since June by one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs.
The political crisis in the impoverished Caribbean, which was exacerbated by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise six months ago, exacerbates the huge problem of insecurity.
At least 950 abductions were committed in Haiti in 2021, according to the Center for Human Rights Analysis and Studies (CARDH), a non-governmental organization based in Port-au-Prince.
Insufficiently equipped to deal with the gangs, which have a real war arsenal, the Haitian police have not organized large-scale operations against the gangs since March 2021.
On March 12, security forces attempted to intervene in a district of the capital known to use a gang to detain kidnappers.
Four police officers were killed in the operation. Their bodies and the equipment they brought were never recovered.
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