Vigilantes chop up mobsters & burn bodies in ‘world’s most dangerous city’ after Haiti warlord ‘Barbecue’ vows coup

If we can’t take the hotel, if I can’t find the owner of the hotel, then the employees of the hotel can pay."

He wrote

Volker TürkuN rights chief

Port-au-Prince’s estimated four million people are practically being held hostage as gangs now control all the main roads in and out of the capital,

Volker Turk, the high commissioner, said in the statement

It is a dramatic escalation that shows no signs of abating,

Jenca told the council

The urgency for a surge in the MSS personnel deployment is evident,

she told the council in New York

Volker TürkuN rights chief

The latest upsurge in violence in Haiti's capital is a harbinger of worse to come,

UN rights chief Volker Turk warned in a statement

At least 150 people have been killed, 92 injured and about 20,000 forced to flee their homes over the past week,

Turk's statement said

I asked God, ‘Are you going to let them save my life?’

Derosier recalled

Our ability to deliver aid is stretched to its limits. Without immediate international support, the suffering will worsen exponentially,

said Goodstein

The Viv Ansanm coalition will use all its means to achieve the departure of the CPT,

Cherizier said on Monday

The isolation of Port-au-Prince is amplifying an already dire humanitarian situation,

Goodstein said

The people of Haiti deserve not only immediate assistance but long-term solutions to rebuild their society,

Guterres said in a statement last week

The gangs are seeking not only territory but dominance over resources and governmental vacuums,

said a security analyst quoted by Reuters