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Punta Cana.- The general secretary of SOS Journalists in Haiti, Joseph Guyler Delva, denounced this Friday, while speaking at the 81st General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), that the situation in Haiti is "indescribable" and that "there are people even within the Government who support" the criminal gangs
The journalist exposed the case of "a baby who was murdered" by a criminal gang in a fire: "They snatched the baby from his mother's arms and threw him into the flames. The journalists couldn't even talk much about it because they feared the gangs, supported by the Government, since it must be said that the gangs do not act alone, but there are people even within the Government who support them."You may be interested in: Dominican College of Journalists
For the journalist, the situation in Haiti "is total chaos and the government is not doing anything", and he confessed that they have tried to kill him and that is why he has had to take refuge in Miami, in the United States. While intervening along with other journalists at the General Assembly of the SIP, which will be held until next Sunday in Punta Cana, east of the Dominican Republic, Delva warned that Haiti is almost "the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist" because the country is "abandoned in the hands of gangs". "When you have gangs running the country and telling you what to do, if you're still alive it's because of the gangs' will, because they can kill you at any moment," he pointed out. "In particular, journalists who try to investigate everyday problems, corruption, and human rights abuses, expose themselves to dangers every day," he added. In the first semester of this year, more than 4,000 homicides occurred in Haiti amid a social and security crisis in which the Caribbean country is living. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) indicated this Wednesday that the number of people displaced by violence and instability in Haiti reached "unprecedented levels", with more than 1.4 million people forced to leave their homes this year, the highest figure recorded in the country. On September 30th, the UN Security Council approved a US resolution for the deployment of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in the Caribbean country, which replaced the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), deployed last year under the leadership of Kenya without achieving outstanding results.
