TWO AMERICAN MISSIONARIES KILLED BY THE “NICE GANG” WHO PROTECTED THEM FROM THE BAD GANGS
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TWO AMERICAN MISSIONARIES KILLED BY THE “NICE GANG” WHO PROTECTED THEM FROM THE BAD GANGS
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One year ago, May 2023, Missions In Haiti wrote in their newsletter they were protected by the Jeff Kanaran gang. On various Facebook posts they talked about how Jeff Kanaran soldiers would daily come to buy from their bakery.
This May, in the effort to protect the Mission In Haiti employees, Jeff Kanaran gang were mistakenly fired upon by Mission Haiti's Davy Loyd who had just been held up by the Pierre6 rogue gang causing the Jeff soldiers to fire back in apparent self defense killing all three missionaries they were sent to backup....
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May 2023 Missions Haiti Newsletter:
"...We are thankful our area has continued to be relatively calm. Gang leader (Jeff of Taliban Kanaran) in our area controls one of “nicer gangs” in Haiti.This gang works to keep the “bad guys” out of our area &we pray that they will continue to be strong enough to keep some peace in our area..."
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Allegedly Pierre6, a rogue gang not from the area, attacked Missions In Haiti . Then Jeff "Taliban" of Kanaran under whose protection they're under went to scene"to see what was going on & if they could help."The Blan (Davy Llyod allegedly misunderstood and shot & killed one of Kanaran folks &this gang went into full attack mode" killing all three missionaries in retaliation to the killing of one of the backup crew sent by Jeff to protect the missionaries...
American missionaries killed by Haitian gang 'gave everything' for the people there: family
Davy and Natalie Lloyd, as well as Jude Montis, were fatally shot by Haitian gangs in Port-au-Prince Thursday
".....Missions In Haiti said in a Facebook post that Davy Lloyd, 23, and Natalie Lloyd, 21, along with some children, were leaving a youth group gathering at church when gang members in three trucks ambushed them.
Davy Lloyd later called his family to tell them that gang members hit him on the head with the barrel of a gun, forced him upstairs, stole their belongings and left him tied up, Cornett told the Associated Press.
Missions In Haiti recounted that "another gang" went to the scene "to see what was going on and if they could help, so they say."
"No one understood what they were doing, not sure what took place but one was shot and killed and now this gang went into full attack mode," the group said. ..."
May 2023 Missions In Haiti Newsletter
Springtime greetings from Haiti in the name of Jesus!
The humanitarian crisis in Haiti has worsened since our last newsletter. Gangs have taken control of even more area in and around Port au Prince. Thousands more people have been killed, kidnapped and/or displaced. The stories we hear daily really tear at our hearts and we are overwhelmed by the unimaginable needs and problems that the Haitian people are forced to live with every day. We are very thankful that our area has continued to be relatively calm. The gang leader in our area controls one of the “nicer gangs” in Haiti. This gang works to keep the “bad guys” out of our area and we pray that they will continue to be strong enough to keep some semblance of peace in this area. Please help us pray that outside help for Haiti will come very soon, I don't know how much longer the Haitian people can live with this terrible lawlessness, famine and stress...
Haiti’s Gangs Grow Stronger as Kenyan-Led Force Prepares to Deploy
Gang leaders with suspected links to the 2021 Haitian president’s assassination now control key infrastructure, and pose a major threat to the incoming Kenya-led force.
Men stand in formation and hold rifles pointed toward the ceiling. Some wear masks.
Jimmy Chérizier, a former police officer also known as Barbecue, is now one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a key part of a new gang coalition.Credit...Matias Delacroix/Associated Press
Maria Abi-Habib
By Maria Abi-Habib
May 21, 2024
They have a stranglehold on the country’s infrastructure, from police stations to seaports. They have chased hundreds of thousands of people from the capital. And they are suspected of having ties to the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president.
Western diplomats and officials say the influence and capability of many Haitian gangs are evolving, making them ever more threatening to the Kenyan-led multinational police force soon deploying to Haiti as well as the fragile transitional council trying to set a path for elections.
With their arrival just days away, the 2,500 police officers will confront a better equipped, funded, trained and unified gang force than any mission previously deployed to the Caribbean nation, security experts say.
Once largely reliant on Haiti’s political and business elite for money, some gangs have found independent financial lifelines since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 and the collapse of the state that ensued.
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The exterior of a house is seen through some shrubs.
The home in Port-au-Prince where President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
“The gangs had been making their money from kidnappings and extortion and from payouts from politicians during elections and the business elites in between,” said William O’Neill, the United Nations-appointed human rights expert for Haiti.
“But the gangs are now much more autonomous and don’t need the old guard’s financial support,” he added. “They have created a Frankenstein that is beyond anyone’s control.”
Aiding the gangs is an arsenal more powerful than any they have ever possessed before, according to two Justice Department officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments. Since February, some gangs have acquired automatic weapons — possibly a mix of arms stolen from regional militaries and others converted from semiautomatic rifles, the officials said.
The gangs have also changed their public posture, posting social-media videos of themselves acting like militias with national ambitions and less concerned with their usual turf wars.
How a Haitian Gang Is Trying to Turn Itself Into a Militia
Haiti's gangs have always been deadly. But now at least one group is portraying itself as a paramilitary force, with more weapons, equipment and uniforms than ever before.
Some of Haiti’s gangs started working together last September, when they announced the alliance called Vivre Ensemble, or Living Together, just days after the Dominican Republic closed its land border with Haiti.
The idea was to unite the gangs to overcome the obstacles that the border closure posed to their drug-smuggling operations, according to two Western diplomats focused on Haiti who were not authorized to speak publicly.
But the alliance fell apart about a week after it was announced, after some two tons of cocaine was stolen from the Haitian gang leader Johnson André, known as Izo, the diplomats said.
Izo’s 5 Segonn gang, or “Five Seconds” in Creole, is believed to be the largest cocaine trafficker in the country, sending much of its product directly to Europe, according to the diplomats.
In late February, Vivre Ensemble was resurrected. The gangs publicly pledged to overthrow the country’s prime minister and vowed to resist the Kenyan-led security force once it deployed, calling the troops “invaders.”
Days later, the alliance stormed two prisons, releasing some 4,600 prisoners, many of whom joined their ranks. The chaos forced Haiti’s prime minister, who had been out of the country, to resign.
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A piece of paper that says “FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Vitel’Homme Innocent” with other details about his physical description.
An F.B.I. wanted poster of Vitel’homme Innocent on display at a news conference in Miami in November.Credit...Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald, via Associated Press
Among the escapees was Dimitri Hérard, according to Haitian officials, the head of the security unit that protected Mr. Moïse’s presidential palace before he was assassinated. Mr. Hérard ordered his forces to stand down as mercenaries stormed Mr. Moïse’s home. He had been in prison awaiting trial on charges tied to the assassination when he was freed in the prison break.
Mr. Hérard is now helping organize and advise Izo’s gang and may be providing connections to larger criminal organizations in the region, including drug cartels, according to a senior regional intelligence official and the two Western diplomats.
Mr. Hérard could not be reached for comment.
Haitian gangs appear to be using weapons also used by the Gulf Clan, a Colombian cartel, which operates along the country’s Caribbean coastline and uses neighboring countries to traffic cocaine. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said last month that thousands of military weapons had been stolen and sold to armed groups, like cartels, and may have gone to Haiti.
Another powerful gang leader, Vitel’homme Innocent, has also been linked by the authorities to Mr. Moïse’s killing. He rented one of the cars used in Mr. Moïse’s killing, according to a Haitian police report.
Mr. Hérard was also a prime suspect in one of the largest cases the Drug Enforcement Administration ever pursued in Haiti. In 2015, the MV Manzanares cargo ship docked in Port-au-Prince with more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine and heroin hidden among sacks of sugar.
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Three men wearing face covers stand at an entrance holding rifles.
Members of Mr. Chérizier’s gang in Port-au-Prince in March.Credit...Odelyn Joseph/Associated Press
At the time, Michel Martelly was Haiti’s president and Mr. Hérard was a senior member of his presidential security force. Mr. Hérard was seen by multiple witnesses at the port ordering members of the presidential guard to ferry drugs off the ship and into police vehicles.
Most of the drugs in the case disappeared. Witnesses were intimidated by Haitian government officials, including by Jimmy Chérizier, a police officer, according to Keith McNichols, a former Drug Enforcement Administration officer who worked on the case.
Mr. Chérizier, also known as Barbecue, is now one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a key part of the Vivre Ensemble coalition.
“The gangs are more and more linked to drug trafficking,” said Mr. O’Neill, of the United Nations. “And given that some former police officers like Hérard were involved in the drug trade when Martelly came to power, it wouldn’t surprise me if the gangs are now trying to court those ex-security officials.”
More recently, officials with knowledge of the negotiations to appoint a new Haitian prime minister say that Mr. Martelly has been lobbying Caribbean leaders and his political allies to try to influence the makeup of the interim government.
His allies on the transitional council have quietly floated a proposal that immunity should be given to the gangs, the officials said, possibly as part of a wider immunity for previous government officials who could be accused of corruption.
“I categorically deny these unfounded allegations of active interference with the transition council,” Mr. Martelly said in a statement to The New York Times, calling the accusations politically motivated. “I have never had any relationship with gangs, nor have I made any reference to amnesty for anyone.”
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A close-up of a Black man looking forward.
Michel Martelly, then president of Haiti, whose government was accused of extensive corruption, at the White House in 2014.Credit...Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times
The government of Mr. Martelly, who served as president from 2011 to 2016, was accused of rampant corruption, including misappropriation of aid worth about $2 billion from Venezuela. In 2022, Canada imposed sanctions on him and other Haitian politicians for protecting and empowering local gangs, “including through money laundering and other acts of corruption.”
“The idea of an amnesty could add fuel to the fire if Haitians are not consulted,” said Romain Le Cour, a Haiti security analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, “considering the inability of politicians to come together in this moment of crisis and given that the gangs have committed severe human rights violations.”
Reporting was contributed by Christiaan Triebert, Andre Paultre, John Ismay, Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes and David C. Adams.
A correction was made on May 21, 2024
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An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of cocaine that diplomats said was stolen from the Haitian gang leader Johnson André. It was two tons of cocaine, not 2,000 tons.
When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nyt...@nytimes.com.Learn more
Maria Abi-Habib is an investigative correspondent reporting on Latin America and is based in Mexico City. More about Maria Abi-Habib
Kenya lawyers file contempt of court against President Ruto and his government
for violating court ruling prohibiting deployment to Haiti
https://ezilidanto.com/2024/05/kenya-lawyers-file-contempt-of-court-against-president-ruto-and-his-government-for-violating-court-ruling-prohibiting-deployment-to-haiti/PRESS RELEASE
Contact Information:
Attorney Evel Fanfan in Haiti at 011 509 36 70 3640
Attorney Èzili Dantò in the U.S. at 203 829 7210
Email: erzil...@yahoo.com
Release Date: November 15, 2023
For Immediate Release
Haiti Lawyers File Lawsuit Against the Illegitimate Haiti Government For Requesting Invasion Into Haiti In Violation of Haiti Constitution
On November 6, 2023, Èzili Dantò’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and Evel Fanfan’s Actions of Organizations Motivated for a Haiti Ruled by Law (AUMOHD), filed a lawsuit against the unelected and de facto Ariel Henry Haiti Government for requesting foreign troops be deployed to Haiti in violation of the Haiti Constitution and Haiti sovereignty.
See the original complaint in French, registered at the High Court of Port-au-Prince, No. I 3970329 (PDF of original filing) and the English translation at ezilidanto.com.
The Haitian Constitution prohibits in its article 263.1 the existence of other Armed Corps on the national territory. Haiti has had more than 10 different international interventions in the last decades. Each brought more disenfranchisement for the Haitian people, left more arms, more violence, and more human rights violations, including contaminated UN soldiers killing more than 10,000 Haitians with cholera, poisoning Haiti's waterways, and making one million Haitians sick. No reparations have ever been made for these international crimes.
Ariel Henry and his government are not duly elected and have no constitutional mandate or legal capacity to request foreign troops on Haitian soil. This is a high crime under the Haitian Constitution.
The Haitian lawsuit proposes two solutions that the international community and de facto Haiti government have at their disposal to counter the paramilitary death squads without bringing more violence and foreign military into Haiti:
- Enforce United Nations Resolution 2653, which calls on UN member states to stop the arms trafficking coming from foreign lands into Haiti for use by the right-wing paramilitaries. These death squads heavily depend on arms trafficking, primarily from the United States and, to a lesser extent, the Dominican Republic. Haiti does not manufacture weapons.
- Compliance, by these powers, with UN Resolution 2653 is a legal Haiti solution rather than the imperial solution that violates Haiti's sovereignty.
- These death squads are financed by the wealthy, white Syrian-Lebanese Haiti oligarchs who remain invisible to the media. Most are already sanctioned by Canada, the United States, and the UN for financing “gangs” and thus for financing death, terror, and murder in Haiti. The Ariel Henry government and members of his PHTK political party have also been named by UN reports for financing this violence.
- Instead of violating the Haiti and Kenya constitutions, the lawyers who filed this case in Haiti propose that the de facto Haiti authorities (along with the governments of Canada, the United States, and the Dominican Republic) take prosecutorial actions and mobilize their enforcement authorities. They recommend not just imposing toothless sanctions on these wealthy businessmen and Haitian politicians for their role in financing terror, dispossession, rape, and murder but call for issuing arrest warrants and promptly apprehending these criminal businessmen and financiers of terror in Haiti against the impoverished Haitian people.
These two solutions are the Haiti-led answers to support the human rights and sovereignty of the Haitian people, not illegal invasions to uphold imperial plunders and an illegal Ariel Henry government.
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Haiti Lawyers, Èzili Dantò and Evel Fanfan, Sue the De Facto Haiti Government for Treason and violating Haiti Constitution
https://ezilidanto.com/2023/11/haiti-lawyers-sue-the-de-facto-haiti-government-for-treason/
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