Situation in Haiti

Robert Fatton

Inserted 1 month ago

“Will it [transitional ruling council] have the capacity to silence the guns of the armed men? How can it be installed safely, and how can it start governing in an environment of widespread insecurity?”

Nytimes

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

12 Apr 2024 2 2

Romain Le Cour

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is honestly outrageous to see a country and a city under total and absolute lockdown at war for a month, and there is absolutely no sign of shortage of weapons or ammunition. The weapons keep coming in, it's a never-ending story. We have to take care of the arms trafficking in Haiti, it's extremely urgent.”

Thehill

Senior expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

30 Mar 2024 2 2

Robert Muggah

Inserted 1 month ago

“Haiti's borders are porous to all manner of contraband, including illegal firearms and ammunition. A combination of political and economic elite, gangs and private security companies are procuring weapons from a variety of sources and bringing them into the country on clandestine flights, packed into shipping freight, and carried by mules across the land border. With criminal gangs controlling key access and distribution points across the country - including ports, warehouses, and roads - they are able to move product with impunity.”

Aljazeera

Co-founder of the Igarape Institute, a Brazil-based think tank

25 Mar 2024 5 3

Robert Fatton

Inserted 2 months ago

“Cherizier likes to compare himself to historical figures like South Africa's Nelson Mandela or Cuba's longtime President Fidel Castro. And he likes to say that he's essentially a revolutionary … and he's going to redistribute wealth. While Cherizier has distributed some food and resources to people in areas under the control of his G9 gang, that's hardly a vision of the future or some sort of revolutionary [act]. It's more that he [Cherizier] wants to control his turf. Those who have suffered the most from the continued gang violence in the Haitian capital are the very, very poor people in the major slums. Something like over 200,000 Haitians had to leave their houses. They had to move into really very poorly equipped camps. You have, in other words, a situation where the people who are suffering the most are the very poor, the very people that Barbecue says he wants to help.”

Aljazeera

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

16 Mar 2024 6 3

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 2 months ago

“We're not going to recognise the decisions that CARICOM takes. I'm going to say to the traditional politicians that are sitting down with CARICOM, since they went with their families abroad, we who stayed in Haiti have to take the decisions. It's not just people with guns who've damaged the country but the politicians too. Now our fight will enter another phase - to overthrow the whole system, the system that is five percent of people who control 95 percent of the country's wealth. The presence of Kenyans in Haiti will be an irony because the same people who gave weapons to people in poor neighbourhoods to rise up against the former government, then lost control of those armed groups, are now appealing to a foreign force to save things. It is a mission that's failed in advance - it's a shame that William Ruto has to go in that direction.”

Aljazeera

Haitian gang leader

15 Mar 2024 4 2

Robert Fatton

Inserted 2 months ago

“It's a very long road, but the immediate problem is the formation of the new government, the selection of a prime minister by the new government. Then the next consideration will be addressing the gang violence. Can you have negotiations with the gangs? If you can't have the negotiations with the gangs, will the Kenyans arrive on time and will they have the capacity to deal with them?”

Aljazeera

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

14 Mar 2024 3 2

Mariano de Alba

Inserted 2 months ago

“We are not sure how much this dynamic will last. But they [the gangs] formed a joint alliance in September 2023, basically trying to respond to the possibility that a multinational security mission was going to be deployed to Haiti, and they wanted to prevent that. These are groups that increasingly think that the only way to retain not only their relevance but their existence is if they are able to at least manage some important degree of political power.”

Aljazeera

Senior adviser at the International Crisis Group

14 Mar 2024 1 2

Michael Deibert

Inserted 2 months ago

“Barbecue has made vague demands of a more just and equitable system, but of course the irony of this whole situation is that the armed groups in the capital and around are creating the hell that people are living through. Barbecue claims to have united Port-au-Prince's notoriously quarrelsome gangs in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together). It is hard to verify that claim. But while so far no rival gang leader has denied it, any alliance is likely to be short-lived. These groups feud mercilessly with one another all the time. The gangs appear to have found a modus vivendi while they try to tear down the pillars of the state. To what end I'm not exactly clear.”

Bbc

Journalist, author and researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)

12 Mar 2024 5 2

Robert Fatton

Inserted 2 months ago

“For the last the three years, the gangs started to gain autonomy. And now they are a power unto themselves. They are capable now of imposing certain conditions on the government itself. Those who created the gangs created a monster. And now the monster may not be totally in charge, but it has the capacity to block any kind of solution.”

Aje

Professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia

12 Mar 2024 1 2

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 2 months ago

“If Ariel Henry doesn't resign, if the international community continues to support him, we'll be heading straight for a civil war that will lead to genocide. Either Haiti becomes a paradise or a hell for all of us. It's out of the question for a small group of rich people living in big hotels to decide the fate of people living in working-class neighbourhoods.”

Aljazeera

Haitian gang leader

06 Mar 2024 2 3

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 2 years ago

“We take this opportunity to invite the United Nations in general and the so-called friendly countries of Haiti, in particular the United States of America, to register in this page of history as loyal allies who want the well-being of the Haitian people by divorcing the status quo.”

Aljazeera

Haitian gang leader - Head of the G9 gang

04 Nov 2021 5 2

Jimmy Cherizier

Inserted 2 years ago

“The areas under the control of the G9 are blocked for one reason only - we demand the resignation of Ariel Henry. If Ariel Henry resigns at 8 a.m., at 8:05 a.m. we will unblock the road and all the trucks will be able to go through to get fuel.”

Reuters

Haitian gang leader - Head of the G9 gang

26 Oct 2021 2 4

Laënnec Hurbon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The recent upsurge in the abduction of church members in Haiti has signaled a breakdown of social relations in Haiti. The collapse of the state has led to the destruction of all social links. Through these kidnappings all the social taboos have been violated.”

Nytimes

Haitian sociologist and writer specialized in the relationships between religion, culture and politics in the Caribbean region

22 Oct 2021 3 4

Bruno Maes

Inserted 2 years ago

“Every time, clashes between armed groups are more violent and every time more women and children are forced to flee their homes. Since the beginning of this year, insecurity has been escalating. But the capital city is now facing an urban guerrilla, with thousands of children and women caught in the crossfire. The displaced families I've talked to have lost everything and urgently need clean water, food, personal hygiene items, mattresses, blankets and clothes.”

Aljazeera

UNICEF’s Haiti representative

15 Jun 2021 0 2

UN OCHA

Inserted 2 years ago

“Haitian national police are not in a position to provide the necessary security and protection to civilians in the most violence-ridden neighbourhoods. The police themselves are the target of gangs, who stormed eight police stations and killed eight policemen during the first week of June, taking weapons and police equipment such as bullet-proof vests and radios.”

Aljazeera

Statement of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

14 Jun 2021 2 3

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“Will it [transitional ruling council] have the capacity to silence the guns of the armed men? How can it be installed safely, and how can it start governing in an environment of widespread insecurity?”

“We take this opportunity to invite the United Nations in general and the so-called friendly countries of Haiti, in particular the United States of America, to register in this page of history as loyal allies who want the well-being of the Haitian people by divorcing the status quo.”

“The areas under the control of the G9 are blocked for one reason only - we demand the resignation of Ariel Henry. If Ariel Henry resigns at 8 a.m., at 8:05 a.m. we will unblock the road and all the trucks will be able to go through to get fuel.”

“The recent upsurge in the abduction of church members in Haiti has signaled a breakdown of social relations in Haiti. The collapse of the state has led to the destruction of all social links. Through these kidnappings all the social taboos have been violated.”

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