In Haiti, at least 1.5 million people have been displaced and forced to live in makeshift shelters due to rising gang violence across the country. That’s according to new data announced by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres during a visit to Haiti Tuesday. Guterres spoke from the capital Port-au-Prince.

Secretary-General António Guterres: “Since the start of the year, gang violence has killed more than 2,300 people and wounded more than 1,100. It has paralyzed the state, the economy, education and the delivery of aid. Yet the greatest shame is not gang violence. The greatest shame is indifference, a world that looked the other way for too long.”

Guterres welcomed the deployment of a new U.N.-backed force to combat gangs — approved by the U.N. Security Council in September — that will replace Kenyan police troops. But many Haitians have opposed further foreign intervention in Haiti, denouncing a history of political and economic destabilization.