Jovenel Moise: President of Haiti was assassinated at the age of 53 | Obituary News

This Haitian President Giovinel Mois was assassinatedIn the case of political instability and the surge of gang violence, he has been in power for more than four years, which shocked the Caribbean countries and caused condemnation all over the world.

The 53-year-old Moise was killed in his private residence in the capital Port-au-Prince in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Prime Minister Claude Joseph described this as a “highly coordinated attack carried out by a well-trained and heavily armed group”.

“Haiti has lost a true statesman,” Joseph said. “We will ensure that those responsible for this heinous behavior are quickly brought to justice.”

Moyes has been killed widely Condemned by world leaders And the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, who called on all Haitians to “maintain constitutional order, maintain unity in the face of this abominable act, and reject all violence.”

Haitian authorities say Joseph tried to reassure people after the attack National “Martial Law” It was first announced after Moise was killed that it would last 15 days as they investigated and searched for the perpetrators.

The head of government wants to assure partners in the international community that he can control the situation, and under his leadership, the Council of Ministers ensures the continuity of the country. 2/2#Haiti #Primature

-Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti (@PrimatureHT) July 7, 2021

Later, the “State of Siege” was published in the official gazette note The agreement signed by Joseph and other Haitian ministers gave the authorities access to people’s homes, prohibited meetings they thought might cause chaos, and “usually took all necessary measures” to arrest the attackers.

Joseph’s office also said on Wednesday night that he was meeting with the Organization of American States (OAS) core team to discuss the political impact of Moise’s death and wanted to assure the international community that “he has taken control of the situation”.

“Banana Man”

Amnesty International condemned the murder of Moise and urged an immediate and impartial investigation of the assassination, “and the serious human rights violations and long-term impunity suffered by ordinary people under his supervision.”

Erika Guevara-Rosas of the organization said: “This is a wake-up call to the international community and the Haitian authorities. They have been monitoring the long-term impunity, but they have ignored it. The serious crisis paves the way for human rights defenders’ appeals.” The Americas Director said in a statement.

Moyes has been subject to controversy during his tenure, including his presidency, the controversial plan to hold a constitutional referendum later this year, and his government’s “accomplice“In gang violence.

Before winning the first round of elections in Haiti in October 2015, the president was almost unknown to the public.

But the vote was affected by widespread voter fraud, and the presidential runoff was postponed many times. Voting was held again in November 2016, and Moise won 55.6% of the voter turnout rate of 18.1% — nearly 591,000 votes out of the possible 6.1 million votes. He officially took office on February 7, 2017.

As a former entrepreneur who founded a series of businesses in the north of the country, he took the populist message to the political arena and called for the building of a country suffering from poverty.

His past careers include water treatment, the energy sector and agricultural production, the latter of which earned him the nickname “Neg Bannan nan” or “banana man” in Creole.

In 2015, he was carefully selected as the successor of PHTK by former President Michel Martelly.

In the following elections, Moise’s concern for agriculture and his provincial family became key campaign themes. With the support of a communications team more advanced than its competitors, Moyes visited all 145 communes in Haiti.

Controversial presidency

Due to the political stalemate and protests that paralyzed the country in 2019, the legislative elections were postponed. After disbanding the majority of seats in the parliament in January 2020, he has been in power by presidential decree for more than a year.

Human rights groups condemned his use of decree, including the decree that effectively removed judges from the Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation), which violated the Haitian Constitution. Moise then appointed a replacement for the court, and did not follow the constitutional guidelines.

The length of his tenure has also been the main point of contention in the past year.

Moise said that his five-year term began in 2017 — and therefore will end in February 2022 — but Haitian opposition groups, civil society organizations, and the country’s leading jurists have stated that his term has expired. It expired in February this year and urged him to step down.

That dispute led to Mass protests in Port-au-Prince Earlier this year, with Demonstrator Yelled: “We are back to dictatorship! Down with Moise!”.

However, the president insisted that he had a year to go and said he would step down in 2022. “Democracy comes into play when we all agree to abide by the rules of the game…Today is the first day of my fifth year,” he said on February 7.

On the same day, Haitian government officials said they had Thwarted the attempt to overthrow Moiz. At that time, nearly two dozen people were arrested, including a Supreme Court judge, whose detention was condemned as “illegal” by top legal experts.

Gang violence is rampant

In recent months, political instability and gang violence have also increased.

Thousands of women and children were displaced by gang violence in the Haitian capital last month. The UN Child Rights Agency stated In mid-June, it warned that more and more families in Port-au-Prince now lack clean water and other necessities.

Just last week, journalist Diego Charles and political activist Antoinette Duclair Was shot in a series of night shootings In Port-au-Prince, calls on the Haitian government to take more measures to curb the rising number of attacks.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that the increase in violence is related to changing gang alliances and territorial disputes.

In May of this year, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), a Haitian human rights organization, stated that “people were burned alive, houses were burned down, and victims had only meager property. Vehicles were hijacked and at least one woman was raped.

The organization said: “The silence of the state authorities proves that they are completely disinterested in the large-scale and systematic violations of the right to life and personal security and the private property of people living in these impoverished communities that commit heinous crimes.”

Under Moise’s leadership, the number of kidnappings for extortion also increased sharply, reflecting the growing influence of the country’s armed groups—for example Kidnapping of 10 people in April Including seven Catholic clergy.