Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice

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PORT\u002DAU\u002DPRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti.

On a recent afternoon, Leo and neighbors guarded one of the four makeshift barriers blocking roads into their hilly community of doctors, nurses, pastors, lawyers, street vendors and engineers.

Weslander Al Cegaire, a cook in the southern city of Les Cayes with a round face and easy smile, told the AP that his cousin was recently killed by bwa kale participants while riding with a motorcycle driver who was targeted. “They burned down motorcycles. They burned down houses. They burned people. They raped. They looted,” said Kenson Dimanche, a volunteer who controls one of the barricades.

In October, Prime Minister Ariel Henry requested the immediate deployment of an international military force to quell gang violence, but neither the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. or Canada has acted. “I bought it to defend myself,” said Mizak, a tall, slender man with a relaxed gait. “We are seeking justice our way.”

“We took them from the police and finished them,” recalled Israel Bien-Aime, who said he helped stone and set fire to the group that day. “This is the only movement that can give us a solution to the gangs in Haiti.”“If we found a bandit right now, we would hold them, beat them and kill them,” he said.

 

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