UN mission says vigilantes have impunity in Haiti
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A new report by the UN stabilization mission in Haiti rebukes local authorities for a losing battle against vigilante violence.
The human rights section of the UN mission says Haitian authorities have displayed "passivity" or "even a tolerance" of people taking the law into their own hands. There has been only one conviction in a lynching case out of 483 incidents and 59 arrests reported by the U.N. mission between 2012 and 2015.
Frederic Gouin is coordinator of a legal analysis unit in the UN mission. He says the report found that "inaction is merely a result of lack of will more than lack of resources or capacity." The findings have been submitted to the Haitian prime minister, but his office has not made any comment.
