For three years now, rival gangs in Haiti have turned the country’s poorest and most densely populated slum into one of the biggest battlegrounds, where women and girls are raped and people carrying out their daily activities are indiscriminately shot at by armed men firing from rooftops.
Now it seems that even the armed groups are tired of the mayhem and want peace.
Four rival gang leaders, whose alliances and violent turf wars have led to mass incidents of murder, gang rape and sniper attacks in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Port-au-Prince’s Cité Soleil slum since 2020, are engaged in peace talks and have committed themselves to end the violence.
