Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify
Wilson Joseph asked the United Nations for dialogue and mediation as more than 2,000 Salvadoran troops were deployed after an attack on missing technicians.
- On Monday, Wilson Joseph, leader of the 400 Mawozo gang, wrote to the U.N. Secretary General requesting the organization deploy a delegation to Haiti for dialogue and mediation amid escalating violence.
- Joseph expressed concern that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's deployment of more than 2,000 troops could escalate violence and trigger "a logic of reprisals, of which the Haitian people would be the first victims."
- The letter, sent from Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, describes 400 Mawozo as a "rebel group" and states Joseph has "officially raised the white flag" since Aug. 20, seeking a peaceful solution.
- More than 5,700 people have been killed or injured across Haiti this year as Clashes intensify between a suppression force and armed groups, with Vectus Global, the firm founded by former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, engaged in operations.
- While Joseph remains "officially available" to participate in dialogue and pursue a peaceful solution, the U.S. government has issued a $1 million reward for his arrest on hostage-taking charges.
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Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolOne of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders has written to the UN Secretary General requesting that the organization deploy a delegation for dialogue and mediation, after El Salvador sent troops to the Caribbean country after the disappearance of Salvadoran aviation technicians there.
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Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify
One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders has written the U.N. Secretary General and requested that the organization deploy a delegation to Haiti for dialogue and mediation as clashes between gangs and an international force intensify.
The leader of the armed group requested UN intervention to initiate a peace dialogue, 10 days after the deployment of Salvadoran troops.
The head of one of the main Haitian armed gangs called for UN mediation for a peace dialogue.
The leader of one of Haiti's main criminal gangs, Wilson Joseph, known as Lanmò San Jou, called for United Nations mediation to open a process of dialogue to curb the escalation of violence in the Caribbean country, amid the military deployment ordered by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. [...] The entry Haitian gang leader calls for UN mediation before the deployment of Bukele was first published in The Journalist.
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