The RNDDH's position on the serial killing of PNH officers

The RNDDH's position on the serial killing of PNH officers

Summary: Written in the fourth week of January 2023, after at least eighteen police officers had already been attacked or killed that year. The network sides with the officers, holds the government responsible for exposing them, and asks them not to abandon the streets.
Key Findings
Full Description

Only weeks into 2023 the network records at least eighteen officers of the Haitian National Police already subjected to attacks on their lives, at a moment when officers abandoned by the state appear to be the preferred target of armed groups and when the president of the Conseil Supérieur de la Police Nationale is also the country's highest executive authority. The document states a position, not an investigation. It offers the network's sympathy to the police institution, which it says the de facto prime minister has thrown to armed groups that enjoy his protection, and it says it understands the frustration and the suffering of officers. It then asks them not to hand the country in general and the streets of Port-au-Prince in particular to the armed groups waiting for exactly that, because protecting the population remains their mission.

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Time Coverage
2023-01-01 to 2023-01-26

How to cite

National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), 2023, The RNDDH's position on the serial killing of PNH officers, https://web.rnddh.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-RapM-PNH-Insecurite-26Jan2023-FR.pdf

Rights holder
Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH)