International Haiti has collapsed into Cannibalism. Nayib Bukele says he can fix it
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It's more for clout and intimidation. It's like cartel killing videos. They don't really eat the people because they are hungry. They take a bite for the camera after they burn someone to death. Some of these videos circulating are old.
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I don't buy this AT ALL. There must be a religious element to this activity.
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US YouTuber YourFellowArab Kidnapped In Haiti While Trying To Interview Gang Leader
American YouTuber Addison Pierre Maalouf, popularly known as YourFellowArab or Arab, has allegedly been kidnapped in Haiti by one of the gangs that become its de facto rulers. According to the New York Post, the Georgia-based YouTuber had travelled to the violence-stricken country to interview the nation's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier. However, just 24 hours after he arrived in Haiti, Mr Maalouf and a Haitian colleague were taken by members of the 400 Mawozo gang on March 14.
According to The Post, the YouTuber is being held for a $600,000 ransom, and even though $40,000 has already been paid, the kidnappers are continuing to demand a large sum of money to secure Mr Maalouf's release.
Mr Maalouf has over 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube. He is famous for exploring dangerous places that are void of general tourism.
As the news of his disappearance spread online, fellow streamer Lalem confirmed that his friend had been taken hostage. "Tried keeping it private for two weeks, but it's getting out everywhere now," Lalem posted on X. "Yes Arab has been kidnapped in Haiti and we're working on getting him out," he added.
In a separate post, Lalem also shared the last video Mr Maalouf posted online. The clip showed the YouTuber at a hotel in Haiti. In the video, he said that he and his crew intended to travel to the capital city of Port-au-Prince, but had to wait until the early morning hours so they could arrive in the sunlight. He also noted that Port-au-Prince is "completely run by gangs" and even though they had secured safe passage, "all it takes is one stupid gang member holding an AK-47 for one thing to go wrong".
On March 10, Mr Maalouf also posted that he was "going on another one of those trips". "If I die, thanks for watching what I've put out. If I live, all glory to God," he wrote on X.
By Friday, another YouTuber, Miles "Lord Miles" Routledge, claimed that he spoke to the kidnapped streamer. In a series of tweets, Mr Routledge said that Mr Maalouf was travelling with a fixer called Sean Roubens Jean Sacra, who was also kidnapped. "Arab has been kept in a cage in a place on the eastern outskirts of the Capital, Port-au-Prince," he said.
"Arab has stated that despite the hardships, he's going to come out with a great video after this, and he should be out in no time. Sean was actually offered to be let go, but he's a great guy and doesn't want to leave Arab on his own, so he has decided to stay," Mr Routledge added.
Mr Routledge also criticised the US government and the State Department for failing to secure Mr Maalouf's release. He said they were "very hands-off on helping, even though Arab is a US citizen."
Meanwhile, in a statement to The Post, The State Department confirmed that it is "aware of reports of the kidnapping of a US citizen in Haiti" but would not provide any details. "The US Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas. "We reiterate our message to US citizens: Do not travel to Haiti," a spokesperson said.
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Anything for clout.
Remember when that American with a rare form of tuberculosis had to be flown back from Italy by the State Department on his honeymoon? Online influencers like this are these type of personalities.
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No, I don't remember. More info please.
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He did a televised CNN(?) interview with his new wife after coming back to the USA. One look of her you knew he intentionally acted irrationally. For she was way out of his league, lol.
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- I thought the kidnaped guy was a jornalist that had a youtube channel!
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Nah if you watch the videos. There is nothing religious about it. It's just homeboy biting a piece of a leg. There is a Haitian subreddit. Some of people who have relatives there report that they share these videos locally to strike fear. It's been going on for a few years already. It's not new. There is a lot of cartel like gore.
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An instagram model isnt a supermodel.
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- Theres not many people around the world with corage to do that. I presume is some type of voodoo thing. like trying to such the adversary soul?
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It's weird because Mexicans and South American gangs do weird stuff like eating the heart of their victims. I think even ISIS had a hand in eating body parts. Haitians get the cannibal tag though. There is a bit of sensationalism. The leader of the gang claims he is nicknamed BBQ because his parents sold BBQ chicken. The original story going around was that he is nicknamed BBQ because he was burning people alive and it changed to cannibalism now.
I don't even think cannibalism is widespread in that country. It's just like a few deranged guys doing stuff like this for clout. Some of the videos are also fake or not consistent with the timeline. There are videos of a Chinese theme park circulating around and Nigerian terrorist groups being portrayed as Haitians.
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I am so jaded about these influencers. I wouldn't even be surprised if he faked his own kidnapping.US YouTuber YourFellowArab Kidnapped In Haiti While Trying To Interview Gang Leader
American YouTuber Addison Pierre Maalouf, popularly known as YourFellowArab or Arab, has allegedly been kidnapped in Haiti by one of the gangs that become its de facto rulers. According to the New York Post, the Georgia-based YouTuber had travelled to the violence-stricken country to interview the nation's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier. However, just 24 hours after he arrived in Haiti, Mr Maalouf and a Haitian colleague were taken by members of the 400 Mawozo gang on March 14.
According to The Post, the YouTuber is being held for a $600,000 ransom, and even though $40,000 has already been paid, the kidnappers are continuing to demand a large sum of money to secure Mr Maalouf's release.
Mr Maalouf has over 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube. He is famous for exploring dangerous places that are void of general tourism.
As the news of his disappearance spread online, fellow streamer Lalem confirmed that his friend had been taken hostage. "Tried keeping it private for two weeks, but it's getting out everywhere now," Lalem posted on X. "Yes Arab has been kidnapped in Haiti and we're working on getting him out," he added.
In a separate post, Lalem also shared the last video Mr Maalouf posted online. The clip showed the YouTuber at a hotel in Haiti. In the video, he said that he and his crew intended to travel to the capital city of Port-au-Prince, but had to wait until the early morning hours so they could arrive in the sunlight. He also noted that Port-au-Prince is "completely run by gangs" and even though they had secured safe passage, "all it takes is one stupid gang member holding an AK-47 for one thing to go wrong".
On March 10, Mr Maalouf also posted that he was "going on another one of those trips". "If I die, thanks for watching what I've put out. If I live, all glory to God," he wrote on X.
By Friday, another YouTuber, Miles "Lord Miles" Routledge, claimed that he spoke to the kidnapped streamer. In a series of tweets, Mr Routledge said that Mr Maalouf was travelling with a fixer called Sean Roubens Jean Sacra, who was also kidnapped. "Arab has been kept in a cage in a place on the eastern outskirts of the Capital, Port-au-Prince," he said.
"Arab has stated that despite the hardships, he's going to come out with a great video after this, and he should be out in no time. Sean was actually offered to be let go, but he's a great guy and doesn't want to leave Arab on his own, so he has decided to stay," Mr Routledge added.
Mr Routledge also criticised the US government and the State Department for failing to secure Mr Maalouf's release. He said they were "very hands-off on helping, even though Arab is a US citizen."
Meanwhile, in a statement to The Post, The State Department confirmed that it is "aware of reports of the kidnapping of a US citizen in Haiti" but would not provide any details. "The US Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of US citizens overseas. "We reiterate our message to US citizens: Do not travel to Haiti," a spokesperson said.
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Anything for clout.
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‘It’s a siege, it’s a war’: Haiti’s gangs tighten violent grip in lethal insurrection
People look for salvageable pieces from burned cars at a shop that was set on fire by armed gangs in Port-au-Prince on 25 March. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP
Port-au-Prince, the capital, has plunged into chaos, and gangs have shifted their offensive to places once considered safe
Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince
As gang fighters and police battled outside his home near Haiti’s beleaguered capital late last month, Nielsen Daily Fierrier hurled himself to the ground.
“From six in the morning until six in the evening, the gunfire hardly stopped,” said the 25-year-old electrician from Pétion-Ville, a middle-class suburb in the hills south of Port-au-Prince.
“In the morning, you could have short breaks of three or four minutes before the gunfire resumed. But all afternoon, there was non-stop shooting,” Fierrier said of the clashes, in which several neighbours were wounded and one local man killed.
“He had left his home without identification papers and was reportedly shot by mistake,” the electrician said, his voice cracking with emotion. “He was someone from the area, who was just on his way home.”
Not far away, a British aid worker was also hunkered down awaiting evacuation. During past outbreaks of violence and natural disasters, the area had been considered a relatively safe sanctuary, said Matt Knight from the humanitarian group Goal, as shots went off outside. “Now the battle has come to Pétion-Ville.”
A month after a coalition of criminal groups called “Viv Ansanm” (Live Together) plunged Haiti’s capital into chaos with an audacious offensive against the state, the fighting continues – and in recent days has begun shifting to places long considered oases of calm.
The reason for that migration into areas such as Pétion-Ville, Laboule and Thomasin is unclear.
Amy Wilentz, an American journalist who has covered Haiti for nearly four decades, suspected the highly unusual attacks were designed to intimidate members of Haiti’s political and economic elite who lived in such enclaves and might be part of a future government after Ariel Henry, the prime minister, was forced to resign by the gang insurrection. “It’s very calculated … and it’s very frightening,” she said.
Emmanuela Douyon, a Haitian activist and writer, suspected sowing terror in wealthier districts was partly about projecting power and gaining territory, but fundamentally part of a gang ploy to pose as revolutionaries, challenging the rich on behalf of Haiti’s downtrodden masses.
Speaking to Sky News – one of the few foreign news organizations to reach Port-au-Prince since the revolt began on 29 February – the man acting as the main gang mouthpiece lambasted Haiti’s corrupt elites and the “indecent” chasm between rich and poor.
“We have weapons in our hand and it’s with the weapons that we must liberate this country,” Jimmy Chérizier, a notorious gang boss nicknamed Barbecue, told the British channel.
Douyon and many other Haitians spurn such posturing.
“They are just adopting this discourse and this narrative to try to gain sympathy and have people forgive them for what they have done,” the activist said of the gangs, who many suspect are using violence to strong-arm Haiti’s future leaders into granting them an amnesty.
“No one in Haiti believes any gang member is a revolutionary,” Douyon added. “They are rapists, killers, kidnappers.”
Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics professor from the University of Virginia, agreed the gangs were “trying to present a revolutionary face – [even though] there’s nothing revolutionary about them. Most of those groups were financed and created by politicians and by business elites - and now they have great autonomy from those forces and they’re enjoying that power,” Fatton said, adding:“This is not something that, in my mind at least, represents any type of popular uprising, let alone a revolution.”
Revolution or not, Haiti’s capital has been indisputably upended by the insurrection, which has seen police stations and government offices ransacked and torched, airport shut down and thousands of prisoners released from jail.
A UN report released last Thursday said Haiti faced a “cataclysmic situation” with state institutions “close to collapse”, violence out of control, and 1.4 million people “a step away from famine”. Haiti’s already fragile health system is also teetering on the brink, with 18 health institutions no longer functioning in the capital region, including the country’s largest public hospital, the State University hospital. More than 1,500 people were killed in the first three months of this year, compared with 4,451 in the whole of 2023.
“The vacuum of governance in Haiti has left everybody scrambling for power and domination. I think that’s what we’re seeing right now … It’s a free-for-all,” said Wilentz, comparing the turmoil to the ‘dechoukaj’ (uprooting) – looting and violence that followed the 1986 downfall of the dictator François ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier.
“This is like a giant dechoukaj - [only that] was machetes and stones. It was grotesque – but no one had a gun.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/haiti-gang-violence-evacuation-update
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- Man. That's horrible also. People are afraid of sharks and crocodiles, but we are far worst!
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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years agoFrance should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to a coalition of civil society groups that is launching a new push for reparations.
The Caribbean island state became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved people. But in a move that many Haitians blame for two centuries of turmoil, France later imposed harsh reparations for lost income and that debt was only fully repaid in 1947.
The group of about 20 non-governmental organisations currently in Geneva for a UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) are seeking a new independent commission to oversee the restitution of the debt, which they refer to as a ransom.
They say the money should go to public works in Haiti where a transition council was installed this month in an effort to restore security after a period of devastating violence by armed groups.
“What’s important is that it’s time that France recognises this and we move forward,” Monique Clesca, a Haitian civil society activist who is coordinating the efforts, told Reuters.
The French foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. France, whose development agency has given hundreds of millions of dollars to Haiti, has previously referred to a “moral debt” owed to Haiti.
The amount paid to France is disputed by historians although the New York Times estimated Haiti’s loss at $21bn. The proposal’s backers say the amount is much higher.
“It’s $21bn plus 200 years of interest that France has enjoyed, so we’re talking more like $150bn, $200bn or more,” said Jemima Pierre, professor of global race at the University of British Columbia.
Clesca said she hoped the recommendation and others would be part of the UN forum’s conclusions due on Friday. Last year, the PFPAD suggested that a tribunal should be formed to address reparations for slavery.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/haiti-france-reparations
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How about defending your shitty stance then.
