Haitian Crisis - Organized Crime, Cannibalism, Election Problems And Foreign Interventions

Hüftpriester said:
General barbecue calls for federal elections? lol
Click to expand...

Federal election as in voting on who has the best Barbecue in Haiti. I hear president BBQ is a fan of smoke sausages. 1710243114689.jpeg
1710243172324.jpeg
 
  • Like
  • Winner
  • Feels
Reactions: biozeminadae1, No Batty Boys in Jamaica, Bunny Wigglesworth and 3 others
SentinentCloud said:
i have powerleved a little bit before about haiti, but yes, this place is cursed, it will NEVER change, and i believe tehre is soemthing even darker than mere niggers about that country
Click to expand...

Something darker than darkies.... GIGA NIGGAS?

2cf.png


Battlefield2142EU said:
View attachment 5806700
Friendly reminder USMC guarded United States embassy and US backed African peacekeepers all retreated from cannibal Haitian gangs.
Click to expand...

Why stay, fight, and waste resources when the gangs will just wipe each other out? It's not like an active embassy is even necessary at this point. There's no government. Who would we send the ambassador to? Barbecue? I don't think sacrificing our diplomats to cannibals like we're trying to appease some cave demon tribe is gonna accomplish anything.
 
  • Like
Reactions: weebycumdumpster, biozeminadae1, PozzedByCoronachan and 11 others
solidus said:
The country is just a lost cause. A basket case.

If there’s not a civil war, then there’s gang violence. If there’s not a hurricane destroying all of their infrastructure, then it’s an earthquake.

From a public health perspective, it’s just an exercise in futility trying to mitigate any of the above disasters. Also because it’s such a backward place there’s massive brain drain. Any Haitian who rises above either leaves for greener pastures. Why would anyone with an IQ approaching 100 want to stay in a place where people are being eaten?
Click to expand...
Let's ask the edgelords of the year:1000005082.jpg
Nope, not quite them either.
 
  • Like
  • Winner
  • Islamic Content
Reactions: AllieKat, why42, Caligura and 14 others
Not sure how much I trust the low IQ claims. How were people tested? Were enough people tested to make a claim about all of them?

Can't blame the Prime Minister for quitting. When the people hate you so much that when you step out they lock the door and set the place on fire, perhaps it is time for a change of profession.

I wish Haiti all the best with their peaceful but fiery protests.
❤️
 
  • Like
  • Optimistic
Reactions: Long Tongue Silver, Fred Herbert, Male Idiot and 2 others
Hüftpriester said:
It’s funny how Fox News calls cannibal nigger gangs taking over the country a “low scale civil war”

What happens now? General barbecue calls for federal elections? lol
Click to expand...
When Ben Franklin called Democracy "a Lion, Wolf and Lamb voting on what to have for dinner", I don't think he meant it literally
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lowlife Adventures, Exterminatus, No Batty Boys in Jamaica and 4 others
Kenya is not going to send any police to Haiti for now.

Kenya Hits Pause on Police Deployment to Haiti​

A deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help quell gang-fueled lawlessness is on hold until a new government is formed in the Caribbean nation, officials in Kenya said Tuesday.

Kenya had agreed to send a security force to Haiti, but that deal had been reached with Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who on Monday night agreed to step down once a new transitional government is formed.

“The deal they signed with the president still stands, although the deployment will not happen now because definitely we will require a sitting government to also collaborate with,” said Salim Swaleh, a top spokesman for Kenya’s Foreign Ministry. “Because you don’t just deploy police to go on the Port-au-Prince streets without a sitting administration.”

Haiti’s embattled prime minister announced his intention to resign after being stranded for days in Puerto Rico following a gang takeover of much of the Haitian capital that made it impossible for him to return. His decision followed several days of violent attacks on police stations, prisons, the main airport, seaport and other state institutions.

Mr. Henry’s resignation brought more uncertainty to an already chaotic situation on the Caribbean island, which has been overtaken in recent months by an extraordinary wave of gang violence.

Mr. Henry, 74, had traveled to Kenya to make final arrangements for the East African country to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help quell the violence. The mission was sanctioned by the United Nations and largely financed by the United States, which on Monday pledged to provide more aid.

The mission had already been delayed by Kenyan court rulings, but the agreement that Mr. Henry and Kenya signed was meant to eliminate the last remaining legal obstacle so the deployment could proceed.

Gang leaders took advantage of Mr. Henry’s absence to take to the streets and sow more bedlam. Orchestrated attacks on two prisons set thousands of inmates free. Gunfire at the main airport in Port-au-Prince, the capital, forced the suspension of flights; homes were ransacked and looted across the city.

Every day brought reports from the United Nations of civilians cut down by gang fire.

The gangs threatened civil war if Mr. Henry did not resign. Mr. Henry, who was appointed prime minister, had become widely unpopular among many Haitians because of his inability to protect people from gangs and his apparent reluctance to hold elections.

Leaders from Caribbean nations, who have led the push to create a transitional council that would lead Haiti after Mr. Henry’s departure, met for discussions in Jamaica on Monday but said no plan had been finalized. Guyana’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who leads Caricom, a union of 15 Caribbean countries, said that “we still have a long way to go.”

It was far from clear when Mr. Henry, who had been under growing pressure to step down both in Haiti and abroad, would actually do so.
Mr. Henry’s tenure has been troubled from the start.

A neurosurgeon who had lived in France for nearly 20 years, Mr. Henry led the country’s public health response to a 2010 earthquake and a cholera outbreak that followed. He also worked in the interior ministry. A veteran of two previous presidential administrations, he was a member of the opposition party when President Jovenel Moïse tapped him to become prime minister in 2021.

But Mr. Moïse was assassinated days after that nomination, and Mr. Henry was never formally voted in by the legislature.

Haiti’s electoral system is in such disarray that no elections have been held in eight years. With no Parliament in office to choose a new prime minister, many Haitians saw Mr. Henry’s time in power as illegitimate.

But the Biden administration and other countries backed him, which helped Mr. Henry stay in office. With his departure now, Kenyan officials say they will wait until a new governing body is in office.

“We will definitely have to work with some sort of an administration for you to fulfill that mandate,” Mr. Swaleh said. “Then, if there’s none, of course, we cannot just put the police out there.”

A spokesman for Mr. Henry, Jean-Junior Joseph, said Mr. Henry will step down once the transitional council is appointed.

“We are waiting for that to happen,” he said.
Click to expand...

Article Link
 
  • Like
  • Informative
  • Feels
Reactions: Zaryiu2, PozzedByCoronachan, madethistocomment and 12 others
Some people are staying in hospitals due to fears of gang violence. The police in Port-au-Prince are said to be both outnumbered and demoralized. Civilians are anxious to go into the streets of the capital due to roaming gunmen.

Gangs tighten grip as Haiti spirals to collapse​

Haiti is fast descending into anarchy.

Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.

It comes after a sustained attack on the international airport, which remains closed to all flights - including one carrying Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

He tried to fly back to Haiti from the United States last week, but his plane was refused permission to land. He was then turned away from the neighbouring Dominican Republic too.

Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico, unable to set foot in the nation he ostensibly leads.

Among those who did manage to get into the stricken Caribbean nation, though, was a group of US military personnel.

Following a request from the US State Department, the Pentagon confirmed it had carried out an operation to, as it put it, "augment the security" of the US embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlift all non-essential staff to safety.

Soon after, the EU said it had evacuated all of its diplomats, fleeing a nation mired in violence and facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.

Millions of Haitians, however, simply don't have that luxury. They're trapped, no matter how bad things get.

Haiti: The basics​

  • The Caribbean country shares a border with the Dominican Republic and has an estimated population of 11.5 million
  • It has a land area of 27,800 sq km, which is slightly smaller than Belgium and about the same size as the US state of Maryland
  • Chronic instability, dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left Haiti the poorest nation in the Americas
  • An earthquake in 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and caused extensive damage to infrastructure and the economy
  • A UN peacekeeping force was put in place in 2004 to help stabilise the country and only withdrew in 2017
  • In July 2021, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in Port-au-Prince. Amid political stalemate, the country continues to be wracked by unrest and gang violence
The situation is dire at the State University of Haiti Hospital, known as the general hospital, in downtown Port-au-Prince. There is no sign of any medical staff at all.

A dead body, covered by a sheet and swarming with flies, lies in a bed next to patients waiting in vain for treatment.

Despite the overpowering stench, no-one has come to remove the body. It is rapidly decomposing in the Caribbean heat.

"There are no doctors, they all fled last week," said Philippe a patient who didn't want to give his real name.

"We can't go outside. We hear the explosions and gunfire. So, we must have courage and stay here, we can't go anywhere."

With no prime minister and a government in disarray, the gangs' power over the capital is near absolute.

They control more than 80% of Port-au-Prince and the country's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier has again told the prime minister to resign.

"If Ariel Henry doesn't step down and the international community continues to support him," he said last week, "they will lead us directly to a civil war which will end in genocide."

Meanwhile, the police, outnumbered and demoralised, are struggling to keep looters at bay. The Salomon police station in Port-au-Prince was attacked and burnt out, and charred police vehicles lie outside the still-smouldering building.

Nevertheless, even in the face of the total collapse of law and order, people must still venture out to make a living.

At a nearby market, several street hawkers told the BBC they had no other option but to leave their homes, even with gunmen roaming the streets.

"I have three kids, and I'm all they have - I'm their mother and their father," said Jocelyn, a market trader who also didn't want to give her real name.

"So, I'm obliged to take to the streets. Yesterday gunmen came here and stole all our money. A lot of vendors lost all their money. But there's no way to stay at home when you have three mouths to feed."

"The anxiety is killing me when I'm in the street," echoed an older woman selling fruit. "I keep thinking what if I get shot dead? Who will take care of my children then? I have no family to support me."

To the west, in one of Haiti's nearest neighbours, Jamaica, the dignitaries, diplomats and heads of state of the Caricom regional group are gathering for an emergency summit.

The instability in Haiti is a problem for the entire Caribbean community, and for Washington too. The idea of a nation of some 11 million people being run by gangs is of huge concern, particularly the potential impact on outward migration during an election year in the US.

It's clear Caricom favours seeing Mr Henry resign as soon as possible, from outside of the country if necessary.

The Biden administration in the US has publicly said the unelected prime minister - who had promised to hold an election in February - should return to Haiti, but only in order to stand down and begin a transition to a new government.

Privately, though, US diplomats are increasingly aware that it might now be impossible for him to return, and that even attempting to do so could further destabilise Haiti.

A UN-backed plan for a Kenyan-led rapid reaction force to tackle the gangs is still far from becoming a reality.

To add to the lawlessness, a week ago, around 4,000 inmates escaped after the gangs attacked the main prison in Port-au-Prince.

Those prisoners are now back on the streets and bolstering the ranks of their gangs.

In the aftermath, the cell doors are now wide open, the facility is virtually abandoned and there are blood stains on the ground after gunmen overpowered the guards.

A prime minister unable to return, violent gangs in control of the capital and dead bodies piling up on the streets: Haiti is currently a nation about as close to a failed state as it's possible to be.
Click to expand...

Article Link
 
  • Informative
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: PozzedByCoronachan, Exterminatus, Scout Trooper and 5 others
Battlecruiser3000ad said:
They like the taste
Click to expand...
I suppose they like pork and dead Haitians are cheaper and more obtainable than pigs.

Breadbassket said:
Kenya is not going to send any police to Haiti for now.
Click to expand...
I also read that sending Kenyan soldiers there isn't popular in Kenya, which is very reasonable, and perhaps the lack of a counterparty or actual Haitian government might be a pretext to back out of the sending Kenyan troops there.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Arthur_Schopenhauer, Exterminatus, Bunny Wigglesworth and 3 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back