Several people were killed and others injured in Haiti as hundreds of churchgoers, some armed with machetes, proved no match for gang members with assault rifles.
A powerful gang opened fire on a large group of churchgoers led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members on Saturday.
A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defence against gangs, during a protest in Port-au-Prince last week.She watched online as hundreds of people from a local church marched through Canaan, a makeshift town in the outskirts of the capital of Port-au-Prince founded by survivors who lost their homes in the devastating 2010 earthquake.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.
Gedeon Jean, the director of Haiti’s Centre for Analysis and Research in Human Rights, said he also watched the event unfold online and planned to ask the Ministry of Justice 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.”Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti last week.
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