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Dozens of armed gang members died this week in the city of Grecie, a southern suburb of Port-au-Prince, in clashes with the Haitian National Police (PNH), who have been working for weeks to drive out the gangs.
Jean Vladimir Bertrand, interim mayor of Gresier, told reporters on Thursday that the bodies of some of the suspected robbers found in the Nan 12 area had been buried in ditches dug by the city council, while some residents of the area, including Petit Boucan, trapped the wounded and then burned them to death.
Bertrand, who has been seeking help from police for weeks to deal with the gang incursion, said police have also seized guns and ammunition belonging to the gang.
In addition, he announced that agents had freed more than two dozen women who had been kidnapped for several days and raped by members of an armed gang.
The interim mayor regretted that the women were abducted from a vehicle travelling south on National Highway 2 and that they were unable to receive medical treatment after their release due to the lack of a hospital in the commune.
On the other hand, the gangs that control Cité Soleil, the country’s largest shantytown in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, signed a peace agreement that was welcomed by residents of 34 areas affected by violence. These groups include Brooklyn, Belékou and Boston.
Dozens of protective walls erected to protect residents have been dismantled, a sign that normalcy is returning to the commune, where people lived in inhumane conditions without basic services such as water and electricity.
There had been four years of war between the rival gangs, with a truce in between, and an end to hostilities.
These conflicts have left hundreds dead, dozens injured, thousands displaced, and dozens of women raped.
This is not the first time that Cité Sune gangs have signed a peace treaty, with such lulls usually lasting only a few months before strife and conflict in the commune intensifies again.
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