▲ A police car burned out and left on the road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the 20th (local time)


In Haiti, a Caribbean island nation in a state of virtual anarchy amid extremely unstable security, nearly 70 people have been killed in less than a week in recent days.

According to EFE news agency on the 24th (local time), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a special agency of the United Nations, said in an explanatory document posted on its website the day before, "Nearly 14 people were killed in clashes between rival gangs in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince between the 19th and 70th."

At least two minors were reportedly among the dead.

The Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Bureau also confirmed that more than 2 people were injured, including being hit by bullets or stabbed in the chest.

Gang-like conflicts such as war centered in Cité Soleil.

In Port-au-Prince, home to about 40 million people, 100,30 to 40,2021 people live in Cité Soleil alone.

It is a typical densely populated area, mostly extremely poor.

The UN agency feared that the security situation in Cité Soleil had reached "alarming levels".

In particular, he pointed out that women and children can be harmed by being exposed to gang brutality crimes.

U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Ulrika Richardson said "people feel like they are under siege" and that "it's hard to step outside their homes for fear of gang attacks."

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where self-help criticism has been met that "it's easier to see gang members than police officers," gangs are active day and night.

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in <>, the executive branch has been in the form of a "plant government," and the legislature has effectively been dissolved at the end of its terms.

(Photo=AP, Yonhap News)