Bel Air, Haiti
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Bel Air Bèlè |
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Ti Chery, Bel Air
Ti Chery, Bel Air
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Country | Haiti |
Department | Ouest |
Arrondissement | Port-au-Prince |
Bel Air (Kreyol: Bèlè, English: Good Air) is a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is a slum area of the city and suffers from poverty. Crime is widespread, and kidnappings and killings have created panic among the local population.[1]
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History
Bel Air has served as a launching site for political demonstrations demanding the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In recent years it has been marred by political violence and massacres by police.[2]
On January 5, 2005 an uprising broke out and was suppressed by hundreds of Brazilian soldiers and special units of the Haitian National Police.[2] Five persons were reported to have been killed.[2]The trouble in the Bel Air area of the city was seen by the authorities as a major threat to the safety of the 2005 elections in Haiti.
The neighborhood was the most devastated area of Port-au-Prince after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[3]
Crime
At the end of 2011, the murder rate in Bel Air reached 50 murders per 100,000 residents, up from 19 murders per 100,000 residents in 2010.[4]
References
- ↑ UNICEF
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Fome e sede fazem violência aumentar em Porto Príncipe no Haiti (in Portuguese), Correio da Bahia. Retrieved on January 20, 2010.
- ↑ "Haiti’s Urban Crime Wave? Results from Monthly Household Surveys August 2011 - February 2012", Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Igarape. Kolbe, Athena R & Muggah, Robert (2012), p.4.
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