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'Only God can change this place': Haitians see no end to spiralling violence
BBC ^ | March 19 | By Will Grant, Haitia

Posted on 03/19/2024 2:38:51 AM PDT by RandFan

"Port-au-Prince is in panic mode," a friend in the Haitian capital texted me.

Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country's spiralling security crisis.

More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street - the victims of the latest gang rampage.

As well as the early morning killing spree, the home of a judge was also attacked - a clear message to the country's elites vying for power.

All this in what is supposedly the safe part of town.

Unicef's executive director, Catherine Russell, has called the situation in Haiti "horrific" and likened the lawlessness to the post-apocalyptic film, Mad Max.

Certainly the latest violence in Port-au-Prince is a reminder, if any were needed, that Haiti remains closer to anarchy than stability.

In that malaise, the UN has also estimated, because of the closure of so many hospitals in the capital, some 3,000 pregnant women were at risk of having to give birth with no maternity care.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 03/19/2024 2:38:51 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

My heart goes out, but
why bring the problem
to our shores?


2 posted on 03/19/2024 2:44:55 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Lean-Right

I’ll take, “so we can watch our country collapse” for a thousand, Bob.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 3:05:15 AM PDT by Segovia
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To: RandFan

Isn’t this a problem for the UN? Where are they?


4 posted on 03/19/2024 3:08:59 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Highest Authority

The UN is perhaps the most absolutely useless collective to ever spring from the mind of fallen man.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 3:11:34 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism is a tyranny that MUST be overthrown.)
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To: Highest Authority
Isn’t this a problem for the UN? Where are they?

Trying out new scams to screw Americans out of even more money to redistribute to slackers and terrorists.


6 posted on 03/19/2024 3:13:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: RandFan

Very easy fix.
Kill every black male aged 12 or older on sight.
then offer free sanctuary to all Chinese males that wish
to immigrate.


7 posted on 03/19/2024 3:26:56 AM PDT by rellic
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To: RandFan

New Yorkers see no end to spiraling violence. There, fixed it.


8 posted on 03/19/2024 3:40:59 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Lean-Right

In a proper world, Haiti would be invaded and put under military rule by the US military and made a ward of the state by the US and nobody would be allowed to leave Haiti to come to America.


9 posted on 03/19/2024 3:41:51 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: RandFan

One solution would be to convert Haitians to Soylent Black and feed the granules to the members of the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization. /spit


10 posted on 03/19/2024 3:42:35 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: RandFan
If I recall correctly about the historical accounts I have read about Haiti, the natives agreed to serve Satan of they got rid of the French dictators. Here is one account:

"Haiti’s Pact with the Devil?: Bwa Kayiman, Haitian Protestant Views of Vodou, and the Future of Haiti" (click here)

Looks like the Devil and voodoo is still running that pocket of necromancers despite the missionary efforts and their minority of converts.

11 posted on 03/19/2024 3:43:35 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: Lean-Right

In a proper world, Haiti would be invaded and put under military rule by the US military and made a ward of the state by the US and nobody would be allowed to leave Haiti to come to America.

That is, if we had the mythological US that we all thought existed at one time.


12 posted on 03/19/2024 3:44:13 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: Daveinyork

I wonder sometimes if New Yorkers want to see an end to the violence. They may be permanent Stockholm syndrome types.


13 posted on 03/19/2024 3:48:05 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Ciaphas Cain

As I recall reading, only one or two senators in 1945 opposed U.S. entry into the UN. Conservatives even back then were hoodwinked by their “liberal friends.”


14 posted on 03/19/2024 3:49:46 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Jonty30

Are you not aware that the U. S. A. had already governed Haiti from 1915 until 1934? (We couldn’t handle its depravity, I guess.)


15 posted on 03/19/2024 3:49:56 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1

No, I was not aware.
Having said that, I said that is what they need from the mythological US that we thought once existed. The US is no longer what we once thought it was.


16 posted on 03/19/2024 3:56:10 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: RandFan

Gangs need to be treated as partially armed rebellious militias and their members taken as prisoners of war.

Haiti might also pass a law prohibiting groups of military age men from obscuring their faces.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 3:57:23 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

AMEN!!! TURN TO GOD!!! DROP THE VOODOO!!


18 posted on 03/19/2024 4:05:20 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: RandFan

It will not be long till that is here. If they succeed in eliminating Trump ,it will begin.


19 posted on 03/19/2024 4:09:54 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: RandFan

God is truly the only One who can change any person or society.


20 posted on 03/19/2024 4:10:37 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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