Posted on 12/06/2022 4:01:31 PM PST by Libloather
It was once a symbol of hope. Haiti: the first black republic and first Caribbean state to declare independence. Now, it symbolises only death and despair.
The poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, devastated by disasters both natural and man-made, plagued by disease, stalked by hunger, and now over-run by gangs.
There has effectively been no government here since President Jovenel Moise was assassinated last year, a crime which continues to go unpunished.
Into that power vacuum have moved hundreds of highly organised and extremely violent criminal groups which often have links to politicians and police - meaning they are free to kidnap, murder and commit atrocities such as gang rapes at will.
Victims have told of being forced to listen to their loved ones being raped until they pay ransoms, which can reach up to $1million.
In one ten-day orgy of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince back in July, 300 people were killed and at least 50 women and girls were subjected to rapes - many of which happened in front of their young children.
One woman recalled how four men raped her in front of her three-year-old daughter, with the young girl stabbed when she wouldn't stop crying.
Haiti's gang problem is nothing new, but a confluence of recent disasters has caused it to become much more widespread and dangerous.
Many of the country's gangs were first organised by political leaders such Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier who created his own paramilitary group to protect himself following and attempted coup in 1958.
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Sounds like a regular democrap run city in the USA!
Sure gone downhill since my era post baby doc when it was just endless coups and technicals waging war at night on the streets in the flats of lower port au prince
We’d race from the ships and clubs on the docks up the mountain to the safety of petionville and kensecoff dodging block battles by the sounds and tracer rounds we could judge direction of the exchanges
Road bonfires were another thing to avoid
Get ready for more US dollars to be dumped (through the UN) down the shithole that is the failed state of Haiti.
UN renews calls for Haiti intervention force
Since April at least 264 gang members have been killed by vigilante groups.
It’s so strange to me that the UN wants to step in, in Haiti... now, that vigilantes are dishing out justice to the Haitian gangs. UN: Can’t let that example be set. If the common people were able to restore order through vigilantism, then a corrupt Govt. sympathetic to “UN goals” may not able to be installed.
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