In one incident, a mob pulled suspected gang members from police custody, hung gasoline-soaked tires around their necks and beat and burned them to death.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jean Baptiste had watched Haiti descend into chaos as violent armed gangs marauded
In one incident last month, a mob pulled more than a dozen suspected gang members from police custody during a traffic stop in Port-au-Prince, hung gasoline-soaked tires around their neckshave occurred elsewhere in the capitalIn several neighborhoods, civilians have erected roadblocks and checkpoints to stop drivers and interrogate them about the purpose of their travel and intended destination — and then relay that information to checkpoints farther ahead.
“We understand you’re fed up,” he said in an address this month, “but do not let bad actors let you play dirty. … The government is working with local and international partners to establish security in the country. This will happen. We won’t back down to bandits.”Gangs have long held sway in Haiti.
The United States and other countries have imposed sanctions on members of the Haitian political and business elite believed to have ties with gang leaders and in some cases to have provided them with money and weapons.Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network has accused state authorities of hiding behind the Bwa Kale movement because it allows the Haitian people to “eliminate for them the links they have with the individuals they have armed” and to ensure they never face justice.
Weeks later, he hasn’t returned home — but knows members of his community are organizing themselves to fight against future attacks.“The people wake up because they can’t take it anymore. It would have been worse without this movement.” But some self-defense groups that formed in the early 2000s to shield neighborhoods from attacks from right-wing paramilitary groups later transformed “into the gang structures we know today.”
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