Gang members burned alive as nation spirals ​

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Horrific footage on social media shows people being butchered on the streets of Haiti by gang members as the “lawless” Caribbean nation descends into anarchy.

It comes as the United Nations warns that insecurity in the Haitian capital has reached levels similar to countries at war.

Videos and images show corpses lying on concrete being attacked.

Jack Brewer, founder of a global organisation that has been in Haiti since the devastating 2010 earthquakes and a former NFL player turned political activist, discussed the unfolding disaster with conservative radio host and lawyer Jenna Ellis this week.

“To see the devastation that’s going on, it’s unimaginable,” he said.

“It’s actually been this bad for a couple of years but particularly this last week, over the weekend there was a village that got overtaken. The gangs came in and literally took over the village, slaughtered anybody with power so that they then controlled all commerce, everything in and out.”

Mr Brewer said there were already many areas of the country where it was “completely lawless”.“There’s no police officer presence because the gangs have either overtaken them with their powerful weaponry or they bought them,” he said. “People are fearful of these gangs. You’ve seen the images – you’re talking about people getting beheaded, women, children, being raped at young ages.”
 

Gang members burned alive

Now, some residents have begun to push back, with more than a dozen suspected gang members burned alive on Monday in Port-au-Prince.

Multiple videos of the incident on social media showed around 14 men lying on the ground surrounded by tyres. Other videos showed the men being burned alive as a large crowd looked on.

“Pour gasoline, pour gasoline,” someone is heard saying in one video, the Miami Heraldreported.

According to the newspaper, the men had been travelling on a minibus when it came to a police checkpoint. Officers saw it was packed with young men they suspected were gang members, so they ordered everyone to get off and lie on the ground.

A large crowd then gathered, dragged the men away from police custody, beat them and stoned them, before throwing gasoline-soaked tyres on top of the men and setting fire to them.

“During a search of a minibus in which there were armed individuals, the police confiscated weapons and other equipment,” police said in a statement. 

“In addition, more than a dozen individuals travelling in this vehicle were unfortunately lynched by members of the population.”

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