Haitian gang slaughters at least 70 people as thousands flee

Nearby countries including the Dominican Republic and U.S. have meanwhile continued to deport migrants back to Haiti.

European nations are complicit on the Haitian tragedy since Haiti was forces to pay onerous reparations to slave owners for gaining their freedom.

In Haiti the gangsterism has extended from the authoritarian governments to the streets.

Haitian society reflects a libertarian ideal, where the government is so minimal that society is largely free from state authority and is left to the natural workings of free competition.

With the determination with which humanity approaches the wrecking of its own home, Haiti seems to represent a likely future for the majority of us. The billionaires though will probably be able to quarantine themselves from it all, as the rest annihilate each other, hoping to emerge from their bunkers in the post-apocalyptic world.

Haitian society reflects a libertarian ideal,...

You obviously don't comprehend what Libertarian means. What you mean is Anarcho-Communism.

Haitian society reflects what happens when gangs are allowed to take over creating lawlessness.

Weren't the Kenyan army supposed to sort all this out? Instead of sitting on their backsides drinking rum?

European nations are complicit on the Haitian tragedy since Haiti was forces to pay onerous reparations to slave owners for gaining their freedom.

Nothing to do with the corruption, lack of morality and ethics, propensity to violence and greed that exists among many in Haiti?

Skavery was abolished in Haiti 220 years ago. For how long are some going to blame the West for all the ills there?

Moonraker

Haiti seems to represent a likely future for the majority of us.

It’s a template that’s increasingly being foisted upon every nation too weak (or woke) to resist. And while it’s tempting for those hiding from (or overseeing and fomenting) dystopia to believe that they’re safe and secure in their gated aeries, they’re likely to be proven wrong as the destructive forces unleashed come looking for them too.

Haiti is a small outpost of west-Africa in North America. The living standards, social norms, and economic development of Haiti mirror those found in most west-African countries. Some people will bend over backwards to avoid seeing this.

Barbaric.

Mr Kipling

Weren't the Kenyan army supposed to sort all this out? Instead of sitting on their backsides drinking rum?

The Kenyans left weeks again.

What you are viewing is communism overtaking Haiti. Indesriminant murder is the hallmark of communism.

What's happening in Haiti has nothing to do with any form of politics such as communism, or anarchy, It's gang thuggery. The Bullet, not the ballot.

The president, whatever government there is and the army have lost control of the country.

wallace:

What's happening in Haiti has nothing to do with any form of politics such as communism, or anarchy, It's gang thuggery. The Bullet, not the ballot.

It is a political problem. In fact, it is the most fundamental political problem: the Haitian government has failed to provide the people with basic protections: law and order.

The educated, hard working, smart, dedicated, honest, democratic, rational people of character have fled Haiti and been given refugee status in other countries leaving the opposite people in charge.

There is a high price to be paid in the fight for freedom, equality and democracy.

Martin Luther King Jr was killed, he gave his life to make his country a better place and improve the lives of his fellow man, he did not seek refuge in a foreign country.

The irony of providing safe harbour refugee status for people fleeing Haiti is that the best and the brightest that the country despertly needs are absent leaving the country in the hands of the worst and dullest, perpetuating the never ending violence and corruption.

Mr KiplingOct. 5 05:27 pm JST

Weren't the Kenyan army supposed to sort all this out? Instead of sitting on their backsides drinking rum?

Because a handful of troops are supposed to run the country with limited rules of engagement?

This story is exactly why the vilified Haitian refugees would rather stay in America where they’re hated, than go back to Haiti where they’re fodder.

Skavery was abolished in Haiti 220 years ago. For how long are some going to blame the West for all the ills there?

To a lot of people here, a historical education would do you good. Instead you get the same right wing, corporate sponsored line to inspire division and destroy class consciousness.

While the U.S. officially left Haiti in 1934, it continued to control Haiti's public finances until 1947, siphoning away around 40% of Haiti's national income to service debt repayments to the U.S. and France.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/05/1042518732/-the-greatest-heist-in-history-how-haiti-was-forced-to-pay-reparations-for-freed

What you are viewing is communism overtaking Haiti. Indesriminant murder is the hallmark of communism.

The kleptocrat authoritarian Duvalier regime led Haiti for decades.

It is what happens when you let in kleptocrat authoritarians, which some nations even elect by their demagoguery.

"What you are viewing is communism overtaking Haiti. Indesriminant murder is the hallmark of communism."

Hilarious.

@GDBD

How are the countries that were colonized by the Ottoman empire doing?

How are the folks in Tibet, colonized by China doing?

How are the indigenous Uyghur folks in China doing?

Western freedom and democracy has enabled the highest standards of living in the history of humanity.

Countries that have adopted freedom and democracy are all doing a heck of a lot better than the people in countries that have not.

Palestinians-Israeli citizens are doing a heck of a lot better than the people in all of the other countries in that region.

As long as the people in Gaza allow themselves to be governed by a terrorist organization, the longer they will suffer. They should throw off the terrorist shackles and adopt freedom, democracy, the rule-of-law and equality.

Barbaric

Always has been, always will be.

Some people fascinated by western colonialism while completely ignoring their own plus sized and savage states.

Some people fascinated by western colonialism while completely ignoring their own plus sized and savage states.

We agree.

Wallace....

The Kenyans left weeks again.

They sent 600 more in September. They are still there, still undermanned and ill prepared.

Commentators continue to bring up western colonization only when they know their giant countries are not natural.