Five Family Members Killed and Burned in Cite Soleil, Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Le Nouvelliste) – In the past month, a sharp increase in homicides by authorities and citizens was observed in the neighborhood of Cite Soleil but on Thursday, November 14, 2013, cruelty rose up a notch, even shocking those living in district.

A little after two o’clock in the afternoon, Deputy Magistrate Leonel Marcellus still could not speak of the “finding” made ​that morning at 8:30. Along the wall that separates Boston from the old factory of HASCO, five bodies completely charred by fire.

“I could not distinguish their sex,” he said in an almost dark room, at the court administration of Cite Soleil, in front of a desk of papers and a bulletproof vest.

On his laptop, a few shots of smoldering corpses. The identity of the victims is not known and the circumstances of their death either, according Léonel Marcellus. In the largest slum in the capital, where life goes almost normally, people willing to comment on the news are rare. It is difficult to confirm the motive for the murder of five people who lived in the Boston, Tecina area.

However, contacted by phone, the police commissioner of Cité Soleil, Pierre- Louis Jean Alex says that these five are members of the same family, the gang leader named John, who was also killed Wednesday in an attack by the Tekielo gang, his ally to an incident at least commonplace. On the birthday of John, Tekielo offered him as a gift a case of beer.

A comment from a “soldier” of Tekielo indicating that it is thanks to the beer Tekielo aa cast afloat in this celebration angered John. Tension rose and the Tekielo soldier who tried to take out his weapon was fatally shot in the head by a relative of John. Tekielo allied yesterday John in his war against Belkou, Ti Ayiti (other neighborhoods of Cité Soleil) gets angry. In retaliation, he mobilized his troops, weapons, automatic rifles Galils, T-65 , Uzi and attacked. John was killed. His mother, his father, his brother and his cousins were killed too.

These are the corpses that were burned by the Tekielo, explains patiently Police Commissioner Pierre-Louis Jean Alex. Two other gang members John wounded in his fatal attack were located and arrested. The police actively search Tekielo and other members of his gang who have connections with armed bandits in Martissant, according to the Commissioner of Police.

In the largest slum in the capital, we heard shots all the time. Weapons of war and munitions are circulating. Cruelty, meanwhile, rises and rises and rises. And gradually becomes Cité Soleil area of lawlessness, where you can kill and burn the corpses of their victims unmolested.

“This concerns us,” said Pierre Esperance RNDDH that delivers an arrow against the administration of Rene Preval , CNDDR , IOM, USAID. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent between 2007 and today in bogus disarmament and reintegration of bandits. These programs have rewarded violence, says Pierre Esperance.

“I think Mr. Pierre Esperance and the country should read the report CNDDR. This document provides a non-government-backed and sabotaged by the white vision,” says Alix Fils-Aime who led the National Commission for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration.

More than 400 weapons, mostly automatic weapons were recovered, he says, adding that the need has not been done to fight poverty in the largest slum in the capital. “The CNDDR was not the customs or the police ,” said Alix Fils- Aime is ” concerned” about the situation in Cité Soleil.

“It is worrying that these psychopaths can kill because of a bad joke, have all the weapons at their disposal,” laments off in a former journalist . “I do not understand everything, but I am convinced that somewhere , this says something to the rest of the country. You have to be careful , ” he insists , also very concerned about such cruelty.

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3 thoughts on “Five Family Members Killed and Burned in Cite Soleil, Haiti

  1. Assassinat vendredi du cameraman du président du Sénat
    Le caméraman attaché au service du président de l’Assemblée nationale, Dieuseul Simon Desras, a été froidement assassiné vendredi après-midi au Centre-ville de Port-au-Prince.

    Inorel Delbrun a rendu l’âme au Centre de Médecins
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    Le caméraman attaché au service du président de l’Assemblée nationale, Dieuseul Simon Desras, a été froidement assassiné vendredi après-midi au Centre-ville de Port-au-Prince.

    Inorel Delbrun a rendu l’âme au Centre de Médecins sans frontières situé à Martissant où il a été transporté d’urgence après avoir été atteint de plusieurs projectibles.

  2. These deaths were the result of dispute over the division of cash to their respective gangs for manifestations against the governement. Nothing political. Just business.

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