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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth

Haiti gangs raped women, burned people alive during turf wars -rights group

FILE PHOTO: Weapons confiscated in police operations against increasingly powerful gangs are presented to the media, after at least 75 people have been killed in turf wars that broke out two weeks ago between gangs, according to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol

Haitian gang members raped women and girls and burned people alive during two weeks of turf wars near the capital of Port-au-Prince, a Haitian rights group said in a report detailing the bloody conflict.

Battles between the rival Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs left 148 people dead, the National Human Rights Defense Network said, adding some were hacked to death with machetes or died when their homes were set on fire.

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