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Haiti: Teachers to Go on Strike This Week

  • Armed gangs terrorize Hatians

    Armed gangs terrorize Hatians

Published 18 April 2021
Opinion

A Haitian teachers' organization called for a strike starting Monday demanding more security after the killing of an educator, and in solidarity with 12 people abducted by an armed gang on April 11.

The Referans group called on all educational personnel to support the strike, which will run from Monday 19 to Friday 23 April, and to show their solidarity with the family of a teacher murdered in the suburb of Carrefour Feuilles (southeast of the capital, Port-au-Prince) on his way to work.

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The collective demand that the government of President Jovenel Moïse take measures to create a climate of security, or else they will support the call for an indefinite teachers' strike launched by several teachers' unions.

Referans also called for the release of a dozen people, among them seven priests, kidnapped on April 11 in Croix-des-Bouquets (northeast of the capital), an act attributed to the 400 Mawozo armed gang.

The Caribbean nation is facing a wave of kidnappings, rapes, armed attacks and other violent acts.


The director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), Jean Gough, called a few days ago for an end to gang violence, which "is sowing terror and fear in more families and communities", she said.

At the same time, he asked them to refrain from attacking children and women, and urged the Haitian government to make the safety of minors a top priority.

According to the United Nations, between September 2020 and February 2021, the number of children and women, victims of armed assaults, allegedly attributed to criminal gangs, increased from 45 to 73 in several incidents that have repercussions, including on the provision of educational services.

According to the Haitian Brigade for the Protection of Minors (Bpm), at least 31 children were abducted between 2020 and 2021.

Last Friday, dozens of people, including political activists, marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince in solidarity with the victims of a massacre in Bel Air, the third to occur in that neighborhood, located a few meters from the National Palace.

The armed attack, perpetrated from March 31 to April 1, 2021, by members of the federation of armed gangs G9, left 13 dead, four wounded and five missing, according to a partial report presented by the National Network for the Defense of Rights.

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