Saturday, November 23, 2024

"More than 100 suspected gang members have been killed as vigilantism grows in Haiti"

See, that's the thing about anarchy that anarchists forget. 

Once they set it in motion they are no longer in control.

From the Miami Herald, November 22:

At least 108 suspected gang members have been killed in Haiti over three days, a Port-au-Prince human rights group has reported. 

The National Human Rights Defense Network’s findings are the first real assessment of the toll of the recent upsurge in violence in Haiti, where armed gangs have been ramping up attacks and on Tuesday attempted to invade one of the capital’s upscale neighborhoods, Pétion-Ville, only to be repealed by machete-wielding residents joining forces with police. 

Pierre Esperance, the executive director of the human rights group, said that “in a good number of the cases, the police killed” the armed individuals and then the population set the corpses on fire. In other instances, residents themselves killed the presumed bandits. A dozen of the killings occurred between Nov. 17-18 in the Poste-Marchand neighborhood of the capital. There were another 90 killings on Tuesday and six on Thursday. 

The tallies underscore not just gangs’ escalating terror, but the lengths to which a fed-up population is going to protect itself as the gangs increasingly take control of more neighborhoods in metropolitan Port-au-Prince and the neighboring Artibonite Valley. It also points to a worrying upshot of violence in a country where the judiciary is almost non-existent and the police are increasingly coming under scrutiny for the excessive use of force.

 “The authorities have totally resigned. Justice itself is sick,” Esperance said. “How do we explain in a country where since 2018 you’ve had all of these massacres, all of these rapes and gang rapes, kidnappings and there has been no judicial process? The state has completely collapsed…. and the population is giving itself justice....

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