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Gang Attack in Haiti Leaves 70 People Dead
(www.nytimes.com)
That’s not an attack, that’s a massacre!
Jesus.
He's not home
These "gangs" control most of Haiti, including 4/5ths of its capital.
It's a strange word choice that the media has coalesced around. Rebel groups or armed forces would imply that they are coordinated and ideological. Cartels would imply that they are selling something. Militias is probably the best.
I think they were already called gangs before they grew to the point of controlling major territory and the media kept the name.
Controlling territory doesn't make them not a gang. There are rival gangs in Haiti too.
Fair enough.The term just fails to reflect the scale of the crisis for a lot of English speakers. They've so far overwhelmed the Kenyan/UN forces.
It’s a ~~strange~~ racist word choice
How else they gonna colonize haiti?
No one wants it
Haiti and Canada are close as they are both Francophonie, we helped them in the past but people in our military couldn’t behave so we sat this one out
We ensure the UN force was led by a majority black nation (Kenya this time)
The use of gangs is odd but it’s not to colonize Haiti
It’s likely because there are so many and their goals aren’t well known
It's paywalled.
Anyone got the full article?
I'd like to know why this happened. Even a flimsy excuse, some shit reasoning. Revenge on a rival gang or something?
Holy shit! It looks like a bunch of "gangs" (more like militias) are successfully extorting the entire country..
Oh. It's way worse than I thought, holy shit.
Thanks for the link, meowther. (I tried making it "brother" but with a cat pun, but that just looks like "mother", and I did not mean to convey the "ok, mom" sentiment. I'm still leaving it tho.)
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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