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"400 Mawozo": The largest gang in Haiti, mainly based in Croix-des-Bouquets, Ganthier and in Port-au-Prince's Tabarre and Pétion-Ville. It has branches in Gros-Morne and the Dominican Republic and has a waiting list for aspiring members. It largely consists of deportees, former leaders of opposition groups, former smugglers and police officers.
A surge in gang violence caused significant casualties, with 1,554 deaths and 826 injuries in the first quarter of the year. Gangs used sexual violence as a means of control and punishment, with reports of women being raped during gang invasions of neighborhoods, often after witnessing the murder of their partners. Gangs are also known to force ...
The leader of Haiti’s main armed gang, Jimmy Cherizier, speaks to the media during a tour of the La Saline neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince in 2021. ... warned against foreign intervention and ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world. Gangs have carried out so much robbery, rape and kidnapping that Haitians on Tuesday ...
How does gang money hurt Haiti? The gangs, along with many Haitian politicians and business people, earn money from an illicit brew of “taxes" gleaned through extortion, kidnappings, and drugs ...
Haiti, in contrast, stands trapped between three bleak options: waiting for an international police force that seems increasingly unlikely to arrive; resigning to indefinite rule by gangs; or ...
In the attack, Pe Lebren, a gang leader allied with 400 Mawozo, fled to Cité Doudoune, another suburb of Port-au-Prince, but was caught by Chen Mechan and executed. [3] [2] The police station in Tabarre, in Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, also stated that two gang members were killed during a police intervention, and one was lynched by locals. [3]