Port-au-Prince: Haiti's capital city taken hostage by brutal gangs - BBC News

[TexasTowelie]

Haiti is on the "verge of the abyss", according to the UN, as heavily armed gangs expand their control of the country.

Armed groups control - and terrorise - at least 60% of the capital Port-au-Prince and its surroundings, according to Haitian human rights groups.

They are also warning rape is increasingly being used as a weapon.

In the first six months of this year, the gangs killed almost 1,000 people, the UN has said.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I was listening to this on BBC radio, and it's worse, if possible...

Children are fed once a day, if tht much. Water is rainwater, or sewr water.

Gangs control just about every street of the capitol, and you negotiate at armed outposts. Gangs control everything. Relief workers, medics and other neutrals pay dearly to cross. Police and government officials, when found, mightf as well not exist.

It is generally believed that the remaining rich bastards in the barricaded mansions up in hills finance the gangs.

Right now, I'm listening to the BBC followwith ing a Canadian relief operation. Or attempting to follow them.