UNMIH - Report of the Secretary-General on the Question Concerning Haiti (S/1995/46)
- Human rights abuses fell after the multinational force arrived, but crime rose with the collapse of FADH.
- Four threats to stability: demobilized soldiers and paramilitary networks, weak justice, slow economic gains, elections.
- The Interim Public Security Force has no vehicles, radios or telephones.
- Police component to grow from 567 to 900 officers.
- Mandate extended six months to July 31, 1995, with takeover around March 31.
The report is 17 pages, submitted under paragraphs 8, 9 and 14 of Security Council resolution 940 (1994). Human rights abuses fell after the multinational force arrived on September 19, 1994, but the collapse of the Armed Forces of Haiti (FADH) left a security void: murders were reported almost daily in Port-au-Prince and one or two criminal deaths a day in the countryside, often by gangs with automatic weapons. The report names four threats: demobilized soldiers and paramilitary networks, a justice system that cannot address past abuses or current crime, slow economic improvement, and the coming elections.
The Interim Public Security Force has no vehicles, radios or telephones, and the new National Police will begin to graduate from the Police Academy only in June 1995 at about 375 officers a month. The Secretary-General recommends raising the police component from 567 to 900 officers, extending the mandate by six months, and handing over from the multinational force around March 31, 1995.
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