Eight people, including an Irish missionary, missed after attack in Haiti
Eight people, including an Irish missionary, missed after attack in Haiti
eight people, including an Irish missionary and a three -year -old child, have been missing since Monday after armed attackers attacked an orphanage in Haiti. This is the latest assault in an area that is controlled by a mighty group of armed gangs.
background of the assault
The authorities tried to resort to dozens of children and employees of the orphanage of Saint-Hélène, which is operated by the international charity organization Nos Petits Frères et Seseurs and has offices in Mexico and France. According to the website of the orphanage, more than 240 children are looked after there.
identity of the kidnapped
The early Sunday is Gena Heraty, an Irish missionary who has been working in Haiti since 1993 and has managed the special program for children and adults with special needs in the orphanage. In 2013 she was victims of an attack, as a suspect, entered the orphanage and killed her colleagues, Irish media report.
family reactions and security situation
her family expressed in a message that she was "completely destroyed" by the kidnappings on Sunday and explained: "The situation develops and is extremely worrying." This is not the first time that a foreign missionary has been kidnapped. In 2021, the Gang kidnapped 17 MawoZo 17 missionaries, including five children, an organization based in the USA in Ganthier, east of the capital Port-Au-Prince. Most of them were held for 61 days.
The attack in Kenscoff
The attack on Sunday occurred in Kenscoff, a once peaceful community in the Port-Au-Prince metropolitan area. The doors of the orphanage were closed on Monday, while the Haitian Institute for Social Welfare and Research worked with Unicef to identify suitable locations to which children and employees could be relocated.
Responsibility and reactions of the authorities
Nobody has yet known about the kidnapping in an area that is controlled by the Gangföderation "VIV Ansanm". The United States has classified this group as a foreign terrorist organization this year. Simon Harris, the deputy prime minister of Ireland, commented in a message and described the kidnaps of Heraty and the others as "extremely worrying" and called for their immediate release.
memories of previous attacks
In an earlier interview with the Irish newspaper Independent, Heraty remembered that she was threatened with death in 2013 as a suspect. "They were quite aggressive. One had a hammer, the other had a gun," she reported. Heraty stated that her colleague was killed with a hammer when he tried to help her and others.numbers and statistics on kidnapping in Haiti
From April to the end of June of this year, at least 175 people were kidnapped in Haiti, with 37 % of these cases taking place in Port-Au-Prince. The United Nations stated that the majority of these kidnaps are attributed to the Gangs Grand Ravine and Village de Dieu, which are part of the VIV Ansanm Federation
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