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Haiti's gangs added to UN 'list of shame' for violence against children
The United Nations on Thursday added Haiti’s powerful gang alliance "Viv Ansanm" to ... "The Viv Ansanm coalition of armed ...
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Behind the Haiti Assassination, Colombia’s Growing Mercenary Industry
If opportunities at home don’t improve, some veterans warn, those men will be funneled right into an increasingly voracious global mercenary ... to Haiti had applied repeatedly for jobs in ...
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Haitian president’s assassination exposes shady world of Colombian mercenaries
“The recruitment ... ex-mates to join the Haiti venture, told Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper that she would not rest until his name was cleared. “He was no mercenary” she said.
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Haiti: Children suffering gang recruitment, attacks and sexual violence amid escalating crisis - New Report
Gangs’ assault on childhood in Haiti - documents how children are being subjected to a litany of human rights abuses including recruitment into gangs, rape and other forms of sexual violence, ...
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Gang recruitment of children in Haiti rises by 70 percent: UN
In a report released on Monday, UNICEF said the recruitment of minors increased by 70 percent last year. “Children in Haiti are trapped in a vicious cycle – recruited into the very armed ...
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Haiti: Child recruitment by armed groups surges 70 per cent
with recruitment driven by widespread poverty, lack of education and collapse of essential services. "Children in Haiti are trapped in a vicious cycle – recruited into the very armed groups that ...
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Leaked documents: Russian Wagner Group mercenaries want work in Haiti
Associates of the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner ... company planned to resume its recruitment of convicts for units deployed to Ukraine. The embassies of Haiti, Mali and Turkey did not ...
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From Haiti’s coup, a warning on the sunrise of the globalised mercenary
“My Lord, may God grant you peace,” the Franciscan monks solemnly intoned, as they found themselves before Sir John Hawkwood—gentleman, adventurer, and mercenary in the service of the great ...
Rolling Stone3y
Colombian Ex-Soldiers Implicated in Haiti Assassination Received U.S. Military Training
A “small number” of the retired members of the Colombian military arrested last week in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president ... soldiers turn to mercenary work in other ...
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Leaked documents: Russian Wagner Group mercenaries look for business close to U.S.
Associates of the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group planned to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti to seek out possible government contracts that could see them fighting local ...
The Irish Times3y
Haiti assassination spotlights Colombia’s growing mercenary industry
About two dozen retired Colombian commandos travelled to Haiti earlier this year after a fellow serviceman promised them security jobs paying ... voracious global mercenary industry that has ...