Gangs strangle Haiti as deaths and kidnappings soar
It was about 6am when Venique Moise flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people running — their children in one hand and scant belongings in the other — as gunfire intensified. Minutes later, she joined the crowd with her own three children and fled as fires burned nearby, collapsing homes. Over the following hours and days, the bodies of nearly 200 men, women and children — shot, burned or mutilated with machetes by warring gangs — were found in that part of Haiti’s capital. “That Sunday, when the war started, I felt that I was going to
Source: taipeitimes.com
