The co-director of the Collectif défenseur plus, Anthonal Mortimé, believes that government authorities are taking advantage of the lethargy of the population to not undertake effective and efficient actions to curb insecurity and respect their fundamental rights.
During the Christmas period, the national police were unable to contain the actions of armed gangs who carried out several dozen known cases of kidnapping and took the lives of several citizens.
On December 25, a person was kidnapped on Capois Street in Port-au-Prince at approximately 10:00 p.m.
To vent their anger, residents set up barricades of burning tires in some places.
For Anthonal Mortimé, this year has been a nightmare for citizens until the last few days.
The human rights defender wants as proof the brutal assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse in his own residence on July 7 in Pèlerin 5. Until now, the investigation has been stalled.
Further on, Mr. Mortimé, returned to the permanent insecurity punctuated by cases of kidnapping in series. “The collective kidnappings, including that of the foreign missionaries and their liberation in farcical conditions, those of Gros Morne, in the Artibonite, have made the headlines without effectively shaking the country’s security authorities,” denounced the human rights activist.
Ariel Henry, who got rid of Léon Charles, did not help the situation by placing Frantz Elbé at the head of the National Police because of his dubious past, human rights organizations were alarmed.
Doctors, teachers, students, businessmen, small traders and ordinary citizens have been victims in one way or another of the infernal machine of insecurity,” said the co-director of the defenders.
In his opinion, there is no doubt that Haiti is far from being a state of law.
The fundamental rights of citizens are violated by those who are responsible for enforcing them.
Impunity is the iron of insecurity, continued Anthonal Mortimé highlighting the decay of the judicial system.
In addition, he said, the majority of the population is immersed in extreme poverty, criticized the human rights defender indicating that the violation of socio-economic rights of people is also one point of the dark picture of human rights in Haiti during this year.
In the opinion of the co-director of the defenders plus, without the mobilization of the population, the next year may not bring any change in the overall situation of the country.
“The people must come out of lethargy and mobilize to reverse the situation,” said Mr. Mortimé, who believes that the population can no longer continue to fall prey to armed gangs that swarm on the territory with the complicity of most of the authorities, said the human rights defender.