At Least 70 People Dead in Gang Attack in Haiti
www.nytimes.com
The assault took place in a key agricultural region, which has seen a surge in gang violence.

The gang members, armed with automatic weapons, stormed into the small town of Pont-Sondé in central Haiti at around 3 a.m. on Thursday.

Then they started setting houses on fire.“As people rushed out of their houses, they were shot,” said Ravina Shamdasani, chief spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Office.

When the violence ended, at least 70 people — including 10 women and three infants — were dead, while hundreds of others ran for their lives, the U.N. office said in a statement.

  • @gedaliyahOPM
    12•3 months ago

    It’s a strange word choice that the media has coalesced around. Rebel groups or armed forces would imply that they are coordinated and ideological. Cartels would imply that they are selling something. Militias is probably the best.

    I think they were already called gangs before they grew to the point of controlling major territory and the media kept the name.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•3 months ago

      Controlling territory doesn’t make them not a gang. There are rival gangs in Haiti too.

      • @gedaliyahOPM
        4•3 months ago

        Fair enough.The term just fails to reflect the scale of the crisis for a lot of English speakers. They’ve so far overwhelmed the Kenyan/UN forces.

      • @[email protected]
        3•3 months ago

        No one wants it

        Haiti and Canada are close as they are both Francophonie, we helped them in the past but people in our military couldn’t behave so we sat this one out

        We ensure the UN force was led by a majority black nation (Kenya this time)

        The use of gangs is odd but it’s not to colonize Haiti

        It’s likely because there are so many and their goals aren’t well known