Reports: President of Haiti Assassinated at Home

[Seoul Gleou]

Haiti’s ruling council moves to fire prime minister, endangering U.S.-backed transition​

November 09, 2024

As the United Nations warned Friday that famine is spreading to new areas of Haiti amid the country’s worsening hunger and gang crises, the country’s top politicians are engaged in a high-stakes blame game that is setting the stage for another crisis. After weeks of tensions over who should control the government, the ruling Transitional Presidential Council moved late Friday to fire Prime Minister Garry Conille in an act that resembled more of a coup than a simple change in governance, as Haitians and diplomats tried to keep pace.

The council reportedly met with the national security forces in which leaders were informed of changes, and decided among themselves a replacement for Conille. The decision came after hours of discussions and political wrangling Friday, and after weeks of disagreement between the prime minister and Leslie Voltaire, the president of the nine-member council, which after taking the leadership reins last month demanded a cabinet reshuffle that Conille resisted.

On Thursday, a meeting brokered by the Organization of American States to try to salvage the transition ended without resolution after Conille, Voltaire and council member Fritz Jean could not reach an agreement. Another attempt on Friday to mediate the crisis also went nowhere and ended with one of the council members storming out on Conille.

Late Friday, the council sent a resolution dismissing Conille to the government’s official newspaper, Le Moniteur, for publication, several sources confirmed to the Miami Herald. The council was working on a second resolution reportedly naming his replacement. Whether the resolutions will be published remained uncertain, as council members appeared to be still engaged in discussions and planned to meet again on Saturday morning. Some foreign diplomats in Port-au-Prince were attempting again on Saturday to see if they could get both sides to make concessions before the publication of any resolution or mandate naming a new prime minister.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article295280754.html#storylink=cpy

Good. This is exactly what happened in 2001

 

[Deus]

Funny how Haiti isn't hot news anymore.

It's not funny but Haitians don't have money like the big noses. Money talks. Now they have a new PM, this doesn't bode well.

 

[Givethanks]

It's not funny but Haitians don't have money like the big noses. Money talks. Now they have a new PM, this doesn't bode well.

My G I'm being ironic, I don't get what jews have to do with Haiti not being a hot topic. No one really cares about Haiti.


I think their PM got removed too.

 

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Haiti - FLASH : CPT appoints a new Prime Minister
11/11/2024

The Presidential Transitional Council appointed by decree Citizen Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as Prime Minister to lead the Government according to a decree appearing in the official journal Le Moniteur, special issue #57, signed by 8 of the 9 members of the Council including 2 non-voting observer members. The signature of Presidential Advisor Edgard Leblanc Fils does not appear at the bottom of this decree.
"The appointment decree has already been published in the National Press, and Didier Fils-Aimé should take office this Monday. The formation of the government is scheduled for Tuesday, November 12."
Note that this announcement by the CPT was made on Sunday, November 10, 2024, while the decree is dated November 11, 2024 and was not yet published...
DECREE :
"Having regard to the Decree of May 17, 2005 revising the General Status of the Civil Service; Having regard to the Decree of 10 April 2024 establishing the Presidential Transitional Council;
Having regard to the Decree of 23 May 2024 determining the organisation and operating mode of the Presidential Transitional Council;
Having regard to the Order of 16 April 2024 appointing the members of the Presidential Transitional Council;
Considering that, by resolution dated 8 November 2024, the Presidential Transitional Council has chosen, by consensus, citizen Didier Fils-Aimé as Prime Minister;
Considering that it is appropriate to appoint the Prime Minister;
ORDER
Article 1.- The Citizen Alix Didier FILS-AIMÉ is appointed Prime Minister.
Article 2.- A copy of this Order will be given to the person concerned.
Article 3.- This Order will be published and executed for the purposes of law.
Given at the National Palace, in Port-au-Prince, on November 8, 2024, Year 221 of Independence.
By The Presidential Transitional Council:
Councillor-President Régine ABRAHAM
Councillor-President Smith AUGUSTIN
Councillor-President Lois Gérald GILLES
Councillor-President Fritz Alphonse JEAN
Councillor-President Frinel JOSEPH
Councillor-President Edgard LEBLANC Fils (unsigned)
Councillor-President Laurent SAINT-CYR
Councillor-President Emmanuel VERTILAIRE
Councillor-President Leslie VOLTAIRE »

HL/ HaitiLibre

 

[Deus]

My G I'm being ironic, I don't get what jews have to do with Haiti not being a hot topic. No one really cares about Haiti.


I think their PM got removed too.

Who said Jws? Americans only have bandwidth for two crises at a time.

 

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1. Nov 17, 2024

 

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Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Haiti​

Ambassador Dorothy Shea
Deputy Representative to the United Nations
New York, New York
November 20, 2024

 

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Dec 7, 2024

http://www.reuters.com/world/kenyan-police-haiti-tender-resignations-over-pay-delays-2024-12-06/

 

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Almost 200 massacred in Haiti as Vodou practitioners reportedly targeted​

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Killings overseen by ‘powerful gang leader’ convinced his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion

Mon 9 Dec 2024



About 200 people were killed in violence in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, many in a massacre in which a gang boss reportedly targeted Vodou practitioners.
The killings of at least 110 people were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil organisation the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD).

“He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and Vodou practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son,” a statement from the Haiti-based group said. “The gang’s soldiers were responsible for identifying victims in their homes to take them to the chief’s stronghold to be executed.”
‘It’s a feeling of claustrophobia as safe zones shrink’: the fight to save lives as gang war consumes Haiti
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The UN rights commissioner, Volker Turk, said at least 184 people had died over the weekend. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people,” he told reporters in Geneva.

Both the CPD and UN said that the massacre took place in the capital’s western coastal neighbourhood of Cité Soleil.

Haiti has suffered from decades of instability but the situation escalated in February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in the capital, Port-au-Prince, to overthrow the then prime minister, Ariel Henry.

Gangs control 80% of the city and despite a Kenyan-led police support mission, backed by the US and UN, violence has continued to soar.

The CPD said that most of the victims of violence waged on Friday and Saturday were over 60, but that some young people who tried to rescue others were also among the casualties.

“Reliable sources within the community report that more than a hundred people were massacred, their bodies mutilated and burned in the street,” a statement said.

More than 700,000 people are internally displaced in Haiti, half of them children, according to October figures from the UN’s International Organization for Migration.

Vodou was brought to Haiti by enslaved people from Africa and is a mainstay of the country’s culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and recognised only as an official religion by the government in 2003.

While it incorporates elements of other religious beliefs, including Catholicism, Vodou has been historically attacked by other religions.

 

[Diunx]

Hey at least is not American imperialism!

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Hey at least is not American imperialism!

It is, though.

Who do you think put all those people in power?

 

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*Update
Journalist speaks about the shooting

Spoiler

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Journalists, police officer killed by gangs at reopening of Haiti’s largest hospital​

By Jacqueline Charles and Johnny Fils-Aimé Updated December 24, 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE At least two journalists and a police officer were killed Tuesday after armed gangs opened fire on them inside an old military hospital in Haiti’s capital. The attack also left at least seven journalists and two police officers injuredwith gunshot wounds. The injured were being treated at La Paix Hospital after a specialized unit of the Haiti National Police went inside the facility that is part of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, better known as the General Hospital, to rescue the wounded. Police officers told a Miami Herald freelancer and other waiting journalists that they had left four bodies on the ground. After three ambulances arrived at the hospital, journalists identified two of the bodies inside one of the ambulances as online journalists Mackendy Nathoux and Jimmy Jean.

A Haitian police spokesman could not be reached for comment. The tragedy unfolded while the press was awaiting the arrival of Health Minister Duckenson Lorthe Blema to cover the reopening of the General Hospital, which had been closed for months because of gang attacks. As reporters waited inside for the arrival of Blema, they could hear gunfire out in the streets, where two armored police vehicles were patrolling. Haiti’s the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, known as the General Hospital, became the site of tragedy on Tuesday, December 24, 2024 after armed gangs opened fire on journalists and police. Haiti’s the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, known as the General Hospital, became the site of tragedy on Tuesday, December 24, 2024 after armed gangs opened fire on journalists and police. Johnny Fils-Aimé For the Miami Herald Inside, final arrangements were being made for the minister’s visit. That’s when several armed men stormed the area outside and opened fire

Johnson “Izo” André, considered Haiti’s most powerful gang leader and part of a gang coalition known as Viv Ansanm that has taken control of much of Port-au-Prince, posted a video on social media claiming responsibility for the attack.

The video said the gang coalition had not authorized the hospital’s reopening

 

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Ayiti: Popilasyon an Bay yon Prezime chèf Gang Bwa Kale nan Wanament

Chèf prezime gang Faro Markenson, AKA Kòmandan Tirad pran bwa kale nan Wanament apre lapolis dominiken te arete l e remèt li bay otorite an Ayiti yo.

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Haiti gang leader dragged from police custody, lynched by mob​

An angry crowd seized Faro Markenson from the hands of law enforcement, beat him with sticks and burnt him

by CYRUS OMBATI

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News01 January 2025 - 19:11

In Summary

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• Faro Markenson, described by Dominican authorities as a “dangerous gang leader dedicated to murder,” was arrested in the city of Santiago.
• After Dominican authorities apprehended the alleged gang leader of Bwa Kale Gang, they handed him over to Haitian police at the border, in Dajabón.

An alleged gang leader Faro Markenson,

An angry crowd killed alleged gang leader Faro Markenson, also known as “Commander Tirad,” after Dominican police arrested him and handed him over to Haitian authorities.
Faro Markenson, described by Dominican authorities as a “dangerous gang leader dedicated to murder,” was arrested in the city of Santiago.
After Dominican authorities apprehended the alleged gang leader of Bwa Kale Gang, they handed him over to Haitian police at the border, in Dajabón.
However, “a few minutes later,” an angry crowd seized Faro Markenson from the hands of law enforcement and beat him with sticks, according to what the newspaper Diariolibre reported.
A macabre scene unfolded in the presence of several citizens, according to the Dominican newspaper.
Well before the takeover of the commune of Petite-Rivière-de-l'Artibonite on December 7, 2024, by public security forces, Mackenson Faro "Ti-Bab", was already planning his escape to the neighbouring land to escape death.
Once the final stages of evacuation prepared during the night were completed, “Ti-Bab” found himself on Dominican soil through unofficial channels on the borderline, officials said.
Nevertheless, the mutual assistance requested by the Haitian police authorities from their Dominican counterparts accelerated the hunt for Mackenson Faro.
In a final and desperate attempt to deceive the Dominican security forces, he changed his hairstyle.
He was quickly spotted before being handed over to the police officers of the Polifront unit.
Despite the mobilization of the police, members of the population, visibly revolted by the crimes and exactions committed by the bandits, were able to lynch Mackenson Faro.