Violent gang leader threatens Haiti’s lesbians

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11/05/2024

Lesbians and queer women in Haiti are living in fear after notorious gang leader Krisla, who is believed to be behind numerous heinous kidnappings, expressly threatened to target lesbian teenagers in the southern Port-au-Prince suburbs of Fontamara and Tibwa in a series of voice recordings on social media. These threats have arrived in a deteriorated security situation amid gang rivalry in the capital, while the United Nations-funded police mission that was welcomed by Haitian authorities is struggling to restore order. Krisla, whose full name is Caïd Christ-Roi Chéry, has been accused of playing a bloody role in a November 2018 gang attack in La Saline, a Port-au-Prince slum, in which at least 71 people were killed, 11 women were raped, and 150 homes were looted or destroyed, according to a report by American and Haitian human rights defenders.

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