THE WORST PLACE IN THE WORLD
THE people of the Canape Vert district of Haiti’s capital, Port- AuPrince, were fed up with gangsters making their lives a misery.
So when cops pulled over a minibus filled up with armed gangsters, they decided to act.
As the police looked on powerless, a mob of residents yanked the hoodlums from the van and beat them to death with rocks.
The bloodsoaked hoods begged for their lives as ordinary Haitians took revenge for their town being turned into a lawless hellhole.
Agony
Machetes were taken from criminals and several had their bellies sliced open with their own weapons. Their entrails spilled into the dust in horrific scenes shared on Twitter.
Onlookers bought petrol and tyres – and the dead or dying gangsters were set alight. The ones who were not dead screamed in agony as they were burned alive.
Welcome to Neighbourhood Watch, Haiti- style.
Death, disease and horror are just facts of life in the benighted Caribbean island, which has a good claim to be the worst place on earth.
When Donald Trump spoke of “shithole” foreign countries, he had Haiti in mind.
It shares an island with the fave holiday destination of the Dominican Republic.
But foreigners are foolish to visit Haiti’s hell.
It won independence from France in 1804 but the Frogs demanded crippling compo which it took the fledgling state a whopping 122 YEARS to pay off.
As a result of that, Haiti has remained a destitute hellhole, marred by violence, squalor and disease.
The place has also been ruled over by some of the most bloodthirsty and corrupt swine ever to infest a presidential palace.
Powerless, penniless and abandoned the people put their trust in ghoulish voodoo ceremonies.
And things now are as bad as they’ve ever been.
Criminal gangs have taken control of an estimated 60 per cent of Port- AuPrince since the July 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moïse.
Ariel Henry was sworn in as president, having only just been named prime minister by Moïse on July 5 who is refusing to co- operate with authorities over his links to the one of the key suspects in the assassination – Joseph Felix Badio.
The latest killings came as the UN released a report highlighting the rise in violence in the country, even comparing it to levels seen in countries at war.
Not that the UN have many supporters in Haiti.
UN troops flew in to help after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2010. But bungling UN soldiers from Nepal managed to spark a cholera outbreak that killed 9,000 people.
What’s more, 100 United Nations ( UN) peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti over a 10- year period – and none were ever jailed.
Little wonder that the people are so fed up, they take out their rage by beating and burning vanloads of gangsters.
That’s what life is like – in Hell on Earth.