Haiti vigilante push ‘symptomatic’ of state’s failures Advocates

2 years ago

Over the past several weeks, groups of Haitian citizens armed with machetes, sticks and other makeshift weapons have banded together to root out suspected gang members and try to end the killings, rapes and kidnappings destroying their communities. The Centre d’analyse et de recherche en droits de l’homme (CARDH) rights group that Jean leads said suspects have been “chased, beaten, decapitated and then burned alive” by members of the grassroots vigilante movement – dubbed “Bwa Kale”, or “peeled wood” in Haitian Creole.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/1/haiti-vigilante-push-symptomatic-of-states-failures-advocates

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