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American guns fuel Haiti crisis

BY BRAD DRESS - 03/30/24 6:00 AM ET

The crisis in Haiti over gangs who have overrun the country and outmatched security forces is fueled in part by a major, illegal flow of U.S. guns to the Caribbean nation, a longstanding problem that has only grown worse despite efforts from the Biden administration to tackle it.

The gangs running amok on the island are armed with powerful American-made weapons, including .50 caliber sniper rifles and semiautomatic AR-15 rifles, along with small arms like handguns.

The Biden administration has worked to crack down on the problems, but with Haiti’s porous borders and little government control, hundreds of thousands of illegal guns are thought to be circulating there.

Romain Le Cour, a senior expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, said smugglers have been “literally pouring weapons into Haiti” for years, a situation he described as getting worse even during the ongoing disaster, which has limited imports.

“It is honestly outrageous to see a country and a city under total and absolute lockdown at war for a month, and there is absolutely no sign of shortage of weapons or ammunition,” Le Cour said. “The weapons keep coming in, it’s a never-ending story. We have to take care of the arms trafficking in Haiti, it’s extremely urgent...”

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https://thehill.com/policy/int...n-guns-haiti-crisis/

Haitian gangs shot, burned bodies of Missouri pol’s missionary daughter, husband while couple was on phone with father-in-law

https://nypost.com/2024/05/25/...-nonprofit-director/

The missionary who was killed along with his wife by gang violence in Haiti this week was frantically trying to assess the deadly situation while on the phone with his dad.

The elder man could hear the pandemonium as armed attackers stormed in, killed his son Davy, 23, and Davy’s wife Natalie Baker Lloyd, 21, and set at least one of their bodies on fire.

“I was on the phone with my son when that was going down. He said, ‘Dad we’ve got a commotion again. I’ve got to see what’s going on,’” David Lloyd, 48, told the Miami Herald of the moment Thursday night a second gang descended on the compound belonging to Missions in Haiti Inc., the nonprofit he and his wife started more than 20 years ago.

The elder Lloyd had traveled from Port-au-Prince to Oklahoma just a day before, leaving Davy and Natalie on the campus to look after the mission’s school, children’s home, and bakery.

The pair was confident they would be safe, despite the massive surge in gang violence that started in late February and continues to terrorize the small nation, David Lloyd explained.

Davy and Natalie were coming out of the mission church with several children when members of the Terre Nwa/Terre Noire gang ambushed them, the Herald reported.

Davy Lloyd was tied up and beaten while the gunmen looted the property, David Lloyd told the outlet.

“They drove him into the house, tied him up and beat him,” he recalled. “Then they proceeded to loot the whole house, everything they wanted and took my trucks and drove off with them.”

The gang members got away with three vehicles, equipment, and money, including the mission’s payroll for the week, the elder Lloyd told the Wall Street Journal.

The gang eventually left, and the children and mission staff were able to untie Davy, who reunited with Natalie and Jude Montis, the mission’s Haitian director.

Suddenly, David Lloyd told the Herald, the compound was invaded by a second gang, this time from nearby Canaan.

Davy, Natalie, and Jude were barricaded together inside the Lloyds’ house when the second group arrived, he explained.

David Lloyd heard the chaos erupting over the phone as his son frantically tried to explain what was happening, he said.

“They eventually got into the house and killed all three of them,” the grieving father said.

A video of the scene reviewed by the Wall Street Journal showed Davy, Natalie, and Jude’s bodies sprawled on the floor of the home, with Davy and Jude’s remains having been burned.

“I’m just at a total loss,” David Lloyd told the Herald. “I’m just in total shock. I haven’t grieved. I haven’t done anything else. I haven’t eaten. I can’t think.”

Natalie’s father, Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker, told the Kansas City Star he would not comment further on his daughter’s killing until he knew the couple’s bodies were “safe at the embassy.”

Davy and Natalie Lloyd were married in June 2022, and moved to Haiti to work as full-time missionaries three months later.

Davy grew up on the Missions in Haiti compound, and spoke Creole before he was fluent in English, his father told the Herald.

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Time to level the shithole.

Poor family. I couldn't/wouldn't want to imagine that. The Lord knows all and holds all accountable for their evil doings. I pray that their work is not done and more are coming to salvation right now, as that is what they need most. I hope they had a quick death and are with the Lord now.

Where's John Rambo when you need him?

Tragic story. No good deed...

That place is a lost cause.

David the missionary might have been a good person, but he was a fool to not be armed and prepared.

^^^ I agree, but given the circumstances now, I'd have GTFO! I know I think a lot differently than they do though. It just burns my ass to read this!

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Originally posted by c1steve:
David the missionary might have been a good person, but he was a fool to not be armed and prepared.

Oh, Haiti allows Americans to be arned and ready?

Maybe its a better vacation spot than Trurs&Caicos.

Armed & ready may help, but if 12 gang bangers types are knocking, may come up short.

The real answer was to vacate months ago. I read the story in the news, tragic, sad, unnecessary.

Just like with the average Joe Blow citizen, one uses situation awareness to surveil the environment, then act.