Haiti: Nearly 3,500 people killed, injured or kidnapped in 2023
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) denounced in a statement that at least 2,500 people have died in Haiti over the course of 2023, while 1,000 have been injured. teleSUR
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00:00 More than 3,500 people have been killed in Haiti as a result of gun violence,
00:05 according to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, Vietnam.
00:09 The police alone reported 3,494 complaints of lynching, murders, kidnapping, sexual violations
00:17 and burning of buildings during the first semester of 2023.
00:21 The organization's report said that entire families, including children,
00:27 have been executed or burned alive. The guns control 80% of the capital,
00:31 although in other areas the situation is no less serious.
00:34 The United Nations Agency estimates that only the last week more than 10,000 people
00:38 have been displaced, a figure that is only surpassed by Sudan.
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