Réginald Boulos appeals for help for Martissant residents

The inhabitants of Port-au-Prince’s 3rd district are facing one of their most difficult moments. For a week now, rival gangs have been clashing and ruling as they see fit. The population is at its wits’ end, outraged by the damage caused by these heavily armed men.

In a press release, Doctor Réginald Boulos Pierre reacts to the situation of the inhabitants at the southern entrance to the capital. “The desperate population, left totally to its own devices and to the gangs, is without shelter, without food, without hope. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee the violence of gang clashes, while the Haitian National Police are powerless to carry out their mission to protect and serve,” reads the press release.

All silence is complicity! Any silence is suicidal.

For it would be madness to think that in our comforts, in our homes and in our supposedly safe zones, we are safe,” he qualifies silence as an act of complicity.

However, Boulos appealed for solidarity to the thousands of people on the streets and asked them not to remain passive in the face of this situation: “It’s a gesture from us, we who certainly have the power, if we put our heads together.

Faced with the absence of the State, we need a concerted, urgent and non-demagogic response, free from any political interest. We need to undertake as quickly as possible a major humanitarian action for all the areas affected by this blind violence, tolerated and perhaps even encouraged by the authorities”.

He is calling for everyone’s support to get out of this comatose and suicidal state, and to work together to restore the rule of law. The leader of the Third Way, invites the population to call for immediate responsibility from those in power, who are currently absent. Their silence is unacceptable, their inaction complicit and their indifference culpable.

At the same time, the politician hopes that his appeal will be well received and receive the urgent responses that the current tragedies require.