PORT AU PRINCE –   The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), says more than 100 gang members have been killed in Haiti in a three-day period, as the armed gangs stepped up attacks and attempted last Tuesday to invade one of the capital’s upscale neighbourhoods, Pétion-Ville.

The Haitian National Police (PNH)said it is maintaining its security operations also in Vivy Mitchell and Belleville in the commune of Pétion-ville as the authorities seek to dismantle the operations of the gang that has ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021, have seized a significant position of the capital, Port au Prince.

RNDDH executive director, Pierre Espérance, said that in a number of cases, the police have fatally wounded the armed individuals with members of the public setting fire to the bodies. He said in other cases, it is the residents themselves who have killed the bandits to protect themselves. RNDDH said that among the 90 deaths reported on Tuesday, 25 occurred in the Canapé Verte neighbourhood and 15 along the Pan-American Highway near the Oasis Hotel in Pétion-Ville. It said last Thursday, six gang members were killed between Delmas 57 and 59 and the Christ-Roi neighbourhood. (CBC.BB) …[+]