HAITI Local residents took justice into their own hands and collectively lynched a member of the Taliban gang. They surrounded him armed with machetes and hacked him to death. Their exact motive remains unknown.
Haiti is facing a very specific and extremely dangerous situation. Armed gangs control the vast majority of the capital, and poorly paid and equipped police have almost no power there. When it comes to gang-related violence, they often do not intervene and do not want to know about it.
When gangs commit brutal acts that severely affect residents’ lives, spontaneous community resistance often occurs, as people have no other way to seek justice. This most often happens in cases of violence against children.
The Taliban gang operates mainly in the Canaan area and the suburbs of the capital, Port‑au‑Prince. It is involved in criminal activities such as city raids, freeing prisoners, murders, burning police stations, etc. It has nothing to do with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
