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19/04/2025

Haiti ‘Awash’ with Guns Leaving Population ‘Absolutely Terrified’

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Dickinson

(UN News)* — Hundreds of thousands of guns are being used by gangs to exert control and spread terror in Haiti, according to the UN’s designated expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.

Gangs control the majority of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke | Gangs control the majority of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

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