The Government of the Republic observed, with concern and dismay, that terror reigned in certain arteries of the metropolitan area of ​​Port-au-Prince this Sunday, February 23, 2020 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30102-haiti-flash-high-tension-at-champ-de-mars.html hhttps://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30103-haiti-security-message-from-the-secretariat-of-the-high-command-of-fadh.html . Street obstructions and a war situation took place in the Champ de Mars area, where gunfire was heard most of the day. It is difficult at this time to take stock of this incredible violence.

The Government condemns with the utmost rigor these acts of violence and acts which violate freedom and democracy. The Government wonders who has an interest in adopting this extremist behavior aimed at driving the country into chaos, despite the commitments and decisions of the Executive Power to respond to the demands of the police officers ? Why reject dialogue and the outstretched hand to solve the difficult problems facing the homeland, choose the path of anarchy preferably and offer the population more pain and tears that such a situation will not fail to provoke ?

The people are called to be vigilant and to be intelligent in these troubled moments of national life. In any case, it can not allow a trivial exploitation of the demands of the PNH and justify these violent actions which expose the country as much, through an alleged rejection of carnival by a certain sector of the population.

In order to avoid the planned bloodshed, the Government takes the opportunity to inform, the population and the carnivalists in particular, that it has been decided to cancel the carnival in Port-au-Prince and invites the Haitian people to keep calm pending the next announcements.

HL/ HaitiLibre