Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti.
Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials have done little, or worse., concentrated in this capital of about 1 million. The vigilantes close off neighborhoods. They stone and often chop the limbs of suspected gangsters, behead them and set them afire, sometimes while they are still alive.
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 Cégaire, 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.
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Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justiceOld cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti. Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and government officials have done little, or worse. Now the people are rising up. A wave of brutal vigilante justice is breaking across Haiti, concentrated in this capital of about 1 million. The vigilantes close off neighborhoods. Then they often chop the limbs of suspected gangsters, behead them and set them afire, sometimes when they are still alive. Vigilantes have killed at least 164 people since the movement dubbed “bwa kale” began in April.
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