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Anse d’Hainault, August 13, 2024 (AlterPresse) — Since the night of Saturday, August 10, 2024, and Sunday, August 11, 2024, when about 15 suspected bandits were lynched in Anse HainaultIn the Grand Anse department (part of southwestern Haiti), fear began to turn the tables in the second municipal district of Anse d’Hainault, according to the testimony of Dario Louis, president of the board of directors of the Boudon community (Casec) collected by AlterPresse.
In connection with recent violence in the Second Public Area of Hainaut Bay, approximately forty houses were set on fire.
On Thursday, August 12, 2024, two bandits were killed by residents of Eno Bay.
Two women were identified as those associated with the bandits and were arrested and handed over to the police.
Another pregnant woman was released due to her medical condition.
The Troubled Life of Anse Hainaut
Dario Louis, president of the board of directors of Anse d’Hainault, told the AlterPresse/AlterRadio platform that the crime rate in the second public area of Anse d’Hainault has worsened since 2020, about two months ago. Municipal department of Boudon (Casec).
Casec de Boudon stressed that 35% of Boudon’s inhabitants had to abandon the area due to armed bandits murdering, raping, beating and looting farmers’ property.
The thugs, mostly young men, came from Chambelland and other places in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and over the course of several months occupied about ten kilometers of territory in an area called “Port-au-Prince”. De Cortlettmainly gloomy.
There they created a climate of terror, killing, raping and stealing the livestock of already vulnerable farmers.
“When they kill people, they sometimes ask the victim’s family to pay a sum of money for the body. They decapitate the victim and take out the heart, then hand over their body,” Louis revealed.
“These bandits joined with ill-intentioned local residents and their numbers grew to several hundred. There were about fifteen bandits before, and their numbers have continued to increase over the years.”
They then continued to gradually expand their sphere of influence until they occupied most of the Second Common Area of the Hainault Bay.
Moron, Chambellan, Dame Marie, Anse d’Hainault and les Irois are 5 municipalities in the department of Grande Anse that have been subject to control and criminal activity (various types of extortion) by these thugs in recent months.
Equipped with guns and bladed weapons, including machetes and clubs, these armed bandits usually extort people at public markets where they liquidate stolen livestock.
Operatives of the Departmental Law Enforcement Unit (Udmo) seized an M4 assault rifle from the gangsters.
Armed groups enforce the criminal code in several other departments, including Ouest and Artibonite.
Resistance is survival
Faced with the brutal terror that the bandits continue to inflict on the inhabitants of Anse Hainault, the farmers decided in June 2024 to organize themselves and form vigilante teams equipped with machetes, sticks and stone bags to thwart the bandits, reports President Casec de Boudon.
Their number increased greatly, from 40 farmers to more than 600, forming a huge self-defense brigade.
After several of them were lynched, the other bandits were so terrified that they sought refuge in remote areas of the Grande Anse.
Louis praised the pursuit of the bandits as strengthening the dedication and determination of the residents of Eno Bay, while also highlighting the lack of telecommunications network that made it impossible to continue hunting down the bandits.
The Boudon Municipal Departmental Board has called on the national government to provide assistance to the many families affected by gang violence in the Anse Hainault Second Municipal District.
By the eve of the next school year, the people were completely destitute, having lost most of their resources, which had been squandered by bandits. This was the case with their houses, livestock and gardens. (emb rc April 13, 2024 at 1:00 pm)
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