Rights groups say churchgoers were killed and wounded as they marched in order to rid the area of gang members
At least seven people were killed in, a rights group said, after a powerful gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, opened fire with machine guns on a protest organised by a Christian church leader.
Canaan is controlled by a gang led by a man identified only as Jeff, who is believed to be allied with the “5 Seconds” gang. Gédéon Jean, director of Haiti’s Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights, said that he also watched the event unfold online and planned to ask the justice ministry to investigate.
The parishioners who clutched machetes and yelled “Free Canaan!” were no match for gang members armed with assault rifles.“Police should have stopped them from going,” Jean said. “It’s extremely horrible for the state to let something like this happen.”From 1 January until 15 August, more than 2,400 people in Haiti were reported killed, more than 950 kidnapped and another 902 injured, according to the most recent United Nations statistics.
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