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| UN PEACEKEEPERS IN HAITI |
The United Nations
Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in the capital, Port Au Prince has released
a statement which announced the killing of two female police officers; the dead
bodies of the two women from Rwanda, Lillian Mukansonera and Aimee Nyiramudakemwa were discovered in their accommodation located in Cap-Haitien
a town in the northern part of Haiti.
The United Nations in its statement said an
investigation of the incident was ongoing to know the facts of what happened
and all other possible information including their killers.
The UN secretary-general’s special representative
in Haiti who is also the head of MINUSTAH, Sandra Honoré, in the statement offered
her condolences to the families of the deceased.
MINUSTAH, which was set up in 2004, comprises of
over 4,500 troops and police who are deployed in Haiti and have a mandate that
has evolved over the years starting with the support of a transitional
government to the inclusion of earthquake recovery and even the facilitation of
the political process in Haiti.
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