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Haiti's deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence - report

Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.

Reuters

With Haiti in chaos, Canada buries its head in the sand

“Things are now at a breaking point. This crisis will not pass.”

The Conversation

Fed up with gang violence, Haitians are taking the law into their own hands

Fed up with gang violence, Haitians are hunting down people they suspect of being connected to these infamous armed groups, not hesitating to kill them. The movement – called Bwa Kale – began on April 24 in Port-au-Prince and quickly spread around the country. Dozens of people have been killed…

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‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs

Members of terrorised Port-au-Prince communities armed with rocks and machetes carry out wave of lynchings

The Guardian - US

Mob pour petrol on gang members before burning them alive in capital's streets

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Unsettling footage from Haiti shows the bloodied men being forced to lie down by rifle-wielding police before bystanders piled tyres on top of them, doused them with petrol and set them alight

Daily Mirror

Neighborhood fights Haiti gangs after vigilante killings

Resident in the hilly suburbs of Haiti's capital are arming themselves with machetes, bottles and rocks and fighting back against encroaching gangs after a crowd beat and burned 13 suspected gang members to death in a gruesome outburst of vigilante violence

The Independent UK

Haiti: at least 12 suspected criminals beaten to death and burned in capital

Footage shows men forced to lie on street by police before being killed and set on fire in broad daylight

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Haitian residents lynch and set fire to suspected gang members

Haitian police said on Monday that at least 10 suspected gang members had been lynched and their bodies burned by residents of Port-au-Prince.

Reuters

Drug dealer admits backing plot in first guilty plea in assassination of Haiti’s president

MIAMI — A convicted Haitian drug trafficker pleaded guilty Friday to providing money to pay for weapons, food and lodging for Colombian commandos and others suspected of executing the fatal shooting of Haiti’s president, marking the first guilty plea in the murder conspiracy case in Miami federal court.

Miami Herald

‘We are living in a reign of terror’: As Biden heads to Canada, Haitians ask, ‘What next?’

MIAMI — As President Joe Biden heads to Canada on Thursday for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, where the crisis in Haiti will be a leading topic, there is one thing that everyone can agree on:

Miami Herald

With Biden's visit to Canada, US will seek commitment on leading a Haiti security force

WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials are pressing their Canadian counterparts to make a decision on whether Ottawa will lead a multinational force into Haiti to assist the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation in its battle against gang control, U.S. and diplomatic sources said.

Miami Herald

‘Intolerable risks’: Haiti’s escalating violence, including sexual attacks, shuts hospital

Escalating gang violence in Haiti is once more forcing the closure of medical facilities.

Miami Herald

UN report: Modern weapons being smuggled to Haiti from US

Increasingly sophisticated weapons are being trafficked into Haiti mainly from the United States and especially from Florida amid worsening lawlessness in the impoverished Caribbean nation, according to a new U.N. report

The Independent UK

‘Warfare is encroaching’: aid groups may have to cut back services in Haiti as violence grows

Médecins Sans Frontières operations threatened by armed incidents and shootouts at its hospitals, but closure would be a ‘catastrophe’ for Haitians

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In Haiti’s heart of gang war, one hospital stands its ground

As gangs tighten their grip on Haiti, many medical facilities in the Caribbean nation’s most violent areas have closed, leaving Fontaine Hospital Center one of the last hospitals in one of the world’s most lawless places.

Miami Herald

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness heads to Haiti as gang wars threaten health care

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness is making a one-day visit to Haiti on Monday along with government ministers and ambassadors from two other Caribbean countries as part of a long-awaited visit to see how Caribbean leaders can help Haitians find their way out of their gang-ridden country’s crisis, which has…

The Independent UK

In Haiti, gangs take control as democracy withers

At a time when democracy has withered in Haiti and gang violence has spiraled out of control, armed men like Jimmy Cherizier – known by the nickname Barbecue - have filled the power vacuum left by a crumbling government

Miami Herald

Haitian authorities plead for calm. Promise better protection for cops after gang attacks

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian authorities vowed Friday to continue the fight against criminal armed gangs who this week plunged the volatile Caribbean nation into a new crisis after their “targeted” armed attacks left 14 cops dead in less than two weeks.

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Reuters

Haiti police block streets, break into airport to protest officer killings

Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation.

Miami Herald

Over the past three months Haiti has seen some of its worst gang-related violence in decades, affecting the functioning of the judiciary, impeding the government, challenging the United Nations efforts to fight illicit trafficking and keeping children from going to school, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in his latest report…

WEKU

As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point

In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a cholera outbreak. "It's a collapse," one outgoing senator said.

Miami Herald

For 15 years, Milena Sandler and Joel Widmaier welcomed some of the biggest international names in jazz and R&B to Haiti amid political turmoil, fuel shortages and protests, musicians like Branford Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Joss Stone.

Miami Herald

Canada sanctions ex-President Martelly’s brother-in-law and a former Haitian politician

The Canadian government added more names Friday to its sanction list involving Haitian political figures and business people.

Al Jazeera

Canada imposes new sanctions on two ‘Haitian elites’

Canadian government accuses two Haitian nationals, including associate of ex-President Martelly, of enabling gangs.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ex-rebel leader known as ‘the torturer’ is arrested in Haitian president’s assassination, sources say

A former rebel known as “the torturer,” who has a history of armed insurgency against Haitian leaders, has been arrested in the slaying of President Jovenel Moïse, multiple informed sources told the Miami Herald.

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