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Saturday, December 30, 2006
More than 30 school children have been kidnapped in Haiti over the last few days. According to reports by the United Nations Peace keeping forces, sixty passengers of two city buses were also kidnapped earlier last week and taken to the Cite Soleil slum in Port au Prince. has been a recent wave of kidnappings in the poverty stricken country and an increase in the abduction of school children as well.
UN special representative in that country, Edmont Mulet has said that he was "revolted by the recent killing of kidnap victims and the wave of abductions of schoolchildren,"
Mulet said that he was committed to increasing the security of citizens in Haiti and has suggested sending more UN peacekeepers to help quell the violence in Haiti. Meanwhile, despite a brief period of peace earlier this year, local gangs and the peacekeepers continue to clash UN forces and Haitian police launched a joint operation in a shantytown in Haiti's capital early Friday, and at least a dozen people were killed and several others were wounded during the crossfire. A UN vehicle was also burned.
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