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Little Maomao & Lahan: we’re back from the store!
Lakou & Lahan’s older brother: Hi welcome back, did you get potatoes like we asked at the store?
Little Maomao & Lahan: Nope, we got herbs, a counting board(abacus), and new scissors.
Lakou: . . . . What . . .
Lahan’s older brother: . . . . Why
Little Maomao & Lahan: :D
Lakan who witnessed their entire interaction “Crackling”: Hehehaha
Luomen who also witnessed their interaction: Welp, those 2 are definitely my grandchildren 
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Купила сет ночных масок с АлиЭкспресс и готова написать отзывы на них. Правда не могу прочитать, что именно они обещают.
🌸 Маска с сакурой, питательная с ароматом парфюма с нотками цветов. Держала её около часа, потом смыла. Маска убирает шелушения и покраснения. Увлажняет средне, но эффект не плохой. Саше хватает на один раз.
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🍵 Маска с матчей была также похожа на предыдущую, такая же плотная и жирная, но у неё был травянистый аромат (но точно не матчи). Маска питает, но через время появляется жирный блеск на коже.
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🪴 Маска с водорослями мне не понравилась. У неё был противный запах чем-то напоминающий мокрую землю, оч��нь резкий и не приятный. С маской не смогла ходить дольше 15 минут, смыла. В принципе за это время использования не увидела никаких изменений.
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🐌 Маска с улиткой была относительно нормальная, жирненькая, запах нейтральный. Наносила перед сном на 40 минут,она практически впиталась. Саше хватает на один раз. Увлажнила кожу средне, зато сделала её гладкой и мягкой.
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🌜 ночная маска (не знаю с чем, но явно не с экстрактом коалы) пахнет приятно, чем-то парфюмным. Увлажняет, питает и есть легкий эффект отбеливания. Эта маска мне понравилась больше всех остальных из набора.
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Lakou Misik (Authentic Haitian Music) Concert|Konpa|Zouk|@BlackWomanVibes
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Jamming out to Lakou Misik (authentic Haitian Music) and Rara Bèl Pozé. I had such a fantastic time vibing to the melodies of Konpa and Zouk. The familiar tunes of love, solidarity, community and happiness with photogenic background portraits of every day Haitians surviving and thriving was the cherry on top. Join me on a two hour high vibrational Haitian Culture concert.As an Ace (Asexual) life outside of cishet patriarchal normativity often is lonely. Even as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, we are often relegated as a mystery due to the lack of media/social representation of Asexuals and being replaced as a + sign after the Q in LGBTQ(+). Amatonormativity may rule the day, but we still exist as the alternative and that’s beautiful. 💜🖤🩶🤍 Like the content? Support the content creator Cashapp: $BlackWomanVibes Socials: BlackWomanVibes 🔮 🧿
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Michael Brun Presents BAYO at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at Lena Horne Bandshell
On Saturday, June 15, 2024, Celebrate Brooklyn! held a benefit concert of their 46th season with Michael Brun Presents: BAYO at Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park. The outdoor featured DJ sets from Kolo and Brun himself. There were live performances by Haitian artists along with others from the diaspora such as Paul Beaubrun, Sarina, Anie Alerte, Danola, Pierre Jean, Troubleboy Hitmaker, Oxlade (who came to Brooklyn from Nigeria for the event), AndyBeatz, J Perry, J Balvin, Maxwell, Colmix & Tonymix, Lakou Muzik, and Tabou Combo. Tabou Combo were given a proclamation from New York City to help close the special event.
I captured the event as a house photographer for Celebrate Brooklyn! and some images can be found in the gallery here. I’ll be at the park throughout this season and again later today for Juneteenth UNITYFEST.
#Michael Brun#Michaël Brun#Lena Horne Bandshell#J Balvin#BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn#BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival#Maxwell#Paul Beaubrun#Danola#AndyBeatz#Tonymix#Colmix#J Perry#Troubleboy Hitmaker#Sarina#Anie Alerte#Tabou Combo#Oxlade#Kolo#DJ Kolo#Pierre Jean#Lakou Mizik
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Chantal Regnault, "Haiti on my mind", Lakou Soukri, 1999
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This is Not Okay.
(I see your asks and I am working through them, promise)
In the last few years, I have generally kept quiet on the amount of unpleasantness that has come bearing the title of Haitian Vodou. I am not the Vodou Police and people have a right to be wrong and make (sometimes terrible) mistakes. Additionally, people genuinely do not want advice or feedback when their mind is made up and they have found what they think is the real deal for them, and that's okay. I don't need or even want to get involved since folks are presumably adults making adult decisions, and I don't need to invite myself to any/every fight where my name is not invoked...or even when it is!
And yet.
Sometimes, it's too much to stay quiet because silence can get people really hurt, or worse. While folks are entitled to their mistakes and entitled not to educate themselves or do due diligence on the people they are granting access to their heads, there's just something that doesn't sit right with me when it's egregious. Long time followers know I have only spoken directly once or twice.
This is egregious, and it's going to get someone killed:
I have received this at least 5 different times today and have had folks genuinely seeking the lwa ask if this is a solid option. I do not know the person behind this and I would hope this is some sort of massive misunderstanding on their part. However, even so, this is awful.
Let's break this down a bit.
Advertising an initiation right off the bat with how many spots you have available says that you are not concerned with who comes in the door or why they are there. Advertising initiation as something to buy is weird even without the bargain basement 'FIVE SPOTS AVAILABLE'. Sosyetes do not need to advertise and recruit; folks come by reputation and general attraction to what the sosyete does.
The fact that there is no information about what sosyete is mounting this is a red flag. No one can undertake initiation alone. It's impossible because the very mechanics of initiation require folks from outside your lineage to come and verify that the work is being done completely and in accordance with the general principles of the religion.
Trying to cast doubt on other places as a way to build credibility is gross, and it is super ironic that they are advertising this as an answer to scams and people who do gross things. Do those things happen? Absolutely. Is this the way to solve it? No. Grift cannot neutralize grift. This is grift.
The big blinking neon red flag sign is the kwakwa/asogwe hybrid initiation. This is not possible and communicates several things, the largest of which is that this person has not received appropriate guidance in either rite because even the most barebones education tells you that this is not possible and could never be done.
Further, this communicates a lack of respect for both rites. The balls it takes to decide that you are going to take it upon yourself to change a religious practice and throw a bunch of stuff in a blender to come up with something new is WILD. This is outright spiritual arrogance that ignores the place of elders, culture, history, and the actual revolution that birthed these things.
Claiming that a person will receive everything they need in one step is lacking in clarity and breaking from the culture of Haitian Vodou, tchatcha and asogwe lineages alike. That is not how initiation works; the process of initiation unfolds over days and weeks and the process of becoming a competent manbo or houngan unfolds over years and even a lifetime. No initiation is a drive through endeavor and should not be treated as such.
'Without the worries of ties to a spiritual house' tells me this person lacks rootedness and perhaps ties to a spiritual house of their own, which is sad. It is not possible to be a manbo or a houngan in any lineage without ties to a specific lineage/spiritual house. It's not possible. Every lineage of Haitian Vodou is based on the lakou, or the compound or yard that a family and community is built around.
What lakou we are associated with tells our stories and gives us our roots, whether we are Haitian or not, or related to our lineage head or not. These stories are vitally important, we cannot function without them and we cannot take Haitian Vodou out of the context that it exists in. We are collectively built from the story that our spiritual ancestors told themselves when they dreamed of liberation and undertook the truly revolutionary action of revolt against French colonizers.
Trying to undo that to package initiation as something unrooted and without community is a slap in the ancestral face and is impossible. It's not Haitian Vodou. We do not stand alone. If you have no community, who will endorse you as a houngan or manbo? How will anyone know you actually are one? I can give you the names of a dozen priests who were active participants in my initiation and can confirm that I have the right to hold the asson. If you have no spiritual community, you do not have that...and you do not have the right to hold the asson.
Learning is different in Haitian Vodou; we learn as we develop and there is no initiation that grants you the immediate access to the inside of your initiator's head. Info farming is not a thing. We learn as we develop, which is why relationships and community are so important. Going through an initiation doesn't give you all the knowledge. Initiation doesn't even teach you things, you learn after because during the process you do not have the right yet to know. Framing all of this as withholding information shows a lack of cultural fluency. Do people withhold in ways that can be harmful? Sure, because there is fault everywhere....but this is not how you solve that, at all.
Most asogwe receive their po tèt; some take it home and some choose to keep it in the temple they were initiated in. Some houses have specific regleman around that, and there are individual circumstances that would keep someone from having theirs but those are instances that people would work out ahead of time. Further, if someone is not comfy with what the lineage they are initiating into does with po tèts, that it something to work out before they initiate, which is why discernment is so, so important.
There are not multiple kolyes given during initiation. In an asogwe lineage, a kolye is made during the initiation process for you specifically and it is large and worn on the body in most places. We do not receive kolye for individual lwa nor are they consecrated in separate ceremonies; this is directly taken from Orisha traditions.
A kwa kwa and a bell are not an asson, and genuinely only a fool would try to bring that to Loko, the progenitor of all asogweman. You cannot mash things together and say they are an asson because you want them to be, or that Loko will give it. I can't even be charitable about this, it's straight up wrong and completely unethical. No one does this. No one.
'Head seals' is wild and someone is going to get hurt. The job of protecting the head is with the lwa, not in the hands of someone doing work. Further, a correct and complete initiation precludes the possibility of problematic possession because the lwa are there to sort that out. Additionally, taking it upon yourself to 'seal' the head a child of Ginen in the name of Ginen is awfully arrogant...are you really going to say you can overstep the lwa and/or do a better job than them?
The work of initiation is incredibly delicate because you literally have someone's head in your hands. People can die when things are done incorrectly, either in the moment or in a long and winding road of calamity. Every single manbo and houngan I know has a story about this. We know what happens when things like this are undertaken because we've either watched the fallout or had people come to our doors in deep suffering because incorrect and inadvisable things have been done to them.
Paying for any initiation through Etsy should speak for itself. That is not how houngans and manbos do business.
What is unsaid in this blurb is that this is undoubtedly happening in the US, because it would never be allowed to happen in Haiti. This says a lot and it's a giant can of worms to open, but when have I avoided that? Initiation does not happen in the US for a lot of reasons. Some folks want to say it can, but it really can't. This is not the post to get into why and I can write more on that later, but that's the long and short of it.
Perhaps finally, my friend Sankofa made a really astute point in another forum: beware anyone in any African Traditional or African Descended religion trying to sell you something ceremonially unique. Our ceremonies are largely the same for big reasons, and an individual saying they are doing something new, like mixing tchatcha and asson or initiating you to your dead ancestors and putting ancestors on your head, is a massive red flag. This is not how culture and traditional religion function. This is not what the ancestors built for us, and this is not what we pass down.
Please, please be careful with your heads. I meant it when I said that people will die because of stuff like this. Please be discerning about who you trust with your head and your life. Take your time and see lots of ceremonies. Pray. Listen for the voice of the lwa which can sound a lot like your intuition. And, for the love of Ogou and Metrès Danto, don't buy initiations on Etsy.
I hope the person behind this post can reflect on what they are doing and re-evaluate their choices. In a perfect world, they would consult with their elders and their mama/papa kanzo for guidance and really, really listen. If they don't have elders and/or an initiator, they should refrain from offering things like this until they do. Different choices can always be made, but spiritual work done out of ignorance, malice, or greed that harms someone can never be taken back.
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I dare you to fight me.
Hakai smiles at Aki, holding nothing on her hands.
...okay-.?
*suddenly Lakou ( @a-g-i-w-a ) appears*
O-O! I WANNA FIGHT TOO!
~ L.u
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Hey Vivi it’s me again I have a fic request . Could you write a fic with ace x f reader where she was living in a very complex village with there own language and everything like outfits to ( she lives on a deserted island ) but like where ace just happened to find her
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Hi @hobiefan. Thank you for another request. This was an interesting one for me to write, if I'm being honest. I really don't know another language, so it was a challenge. In the end, I decided to use Hawaiian as the language and the actual look of the village to be similar to were Tama lived on Wano. It's one of the languages I have wanted to learn. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it!
Portgas D Ace x Fem Reader: New Favorite Place
Ace had only been a captain for about a year now when he found your island. They might have crashed it...again. But while a few of the crew members fixed the ship, he and Deuce decided to explore the island. It was clearly deserted, as once they left the soft sandy beach, there were only trees. At least until they saw a small little village of some sort. There were neatly made wood huts. They didn't see any people, which was unusual. Just as the two were about to get up, a blunt object made impact with the back of their heads. The two pirates blacked out.
The two men woke up in a daze. They noticed they were in the little village now. Ace went to stretch, but his body was bound to a large poll, and he was sitting down. An older man, dressed in a red shirt with intricate gold white and plain matching pants walked up to the boys. He spoke in a very deep and stern voice, "ʻO wai kou inoa?" Ace looked at Deuce.
"Huh?," Ace asked, looking at the man puzzled. Soon after, a small girl, about his age, dressed in a plain light blue shift dress with a short bob and a hibiscus flower in her hair walked up to the man. She said something to the man, before looking at Ace. "My father asked you what your name is," she said, crouching down to be at his level. "I'm sorry about our chief, we have a different language here. I speak our language and yours. I can translate. What is your name any why are you here?"
"Portgas D Ace. I'm a pirate, but my boat crashed here."
She looked at her father before speaking again, "ʻO Ace kona inoa a he poʻe pōā ʻo ia. Aole lakou maanei e aihue."
Her father yelled something and a few large men dressed like the chief came and cut the rope off of Ace. "I'm sorry about that. We need to fix our ship. Some of my crew are gathering supplies. I promise not to bother you all."
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But, Ace bothered you all anyways. He was at your village everyday. He learned so much about your culture and even tried learning the language. Let's just say. He wasn't very good at it. It was the last day on the island. As his crew packed up to go, he ran back to your village to find you. He found you watering the flowers outside your home. He ran up to you out of breath, "Hi! So, we're leaving today and I wanted to tell you something. I know it's only been a week, but I like you. Not as a friend..." He was about to continue with a beautiful long speech, but you interrupted him by smashing your lips onto his. Your lips were sweet, like strawberries and he really enjoyed it. You broke away from him and said, "Aloha Au Ia ʻOe. It means I love you."
He looked at you and wrapped his arms around your smaller frame, "Aloha Au Ia ʻOe."
About an hour later, the Spade Pirates left your island. Everyone in the village waved goodbye to their new friends. That day, your island became his new favorite place Not because it was territory of the Spade Pirates, but because that was where you were.
Please do not copy, modify, translate, or repost my writing on other platforms. Comments, reblogs or likes are highly appreciated!
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Lakou Nou – Haiti Cultural Exchange
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Port-au-Prince is as violent as it has ever been, but for two weeks now the fear has also flowed in a different direction — thanks to a phenomenon known as "Bwa Kale."
"Bwa Kale" literally means "peeled wood" in Haitian Creole. It's also a metaphor for an act of swift justice.
While gang members continue their depredations in the east end of the Haitian capital, in other parts they have been forced to flee. Many have been lynched or summarily executed following capture by groups of citizens, sometimes acting alongside police.
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Bwa Kale messages and memes are everywhere on Haitian social media, and recording artists like Tony Mix have put out tracks promoting the trend. There is even a Bwa Kale dance.
While many have reservations about the movement and where it might lead, large numbers of ordinary Haitians seem to have found a kind of joyous release in turning the tables on their tormentors.
Burned alive
A spontaneous event on April 24 appears to have been the catalyst for the movement. Police in the Canape Vert area of Port-au-Prince intercepted 13 or 14 members of a gang travelling on a minibus to join with an allied gang in the Dubussy district.
"This party didn't have any long guns with them," said Louis-Henri Mars, director of the Haitian peacebuilding non-profit Lakou Lape. "They only had pistols in their rucksacks, and when they were stopped, the police disarmed them."
A crowd quickly gathered at the scene.
"The police felt the pressure, or they felt threatened by the crowd, and they released those guys to die basically," said Mars. "And the crowd stoned them and burned them to death, and this was the start of it."
Cell videos from the scene show Haitian police holding a group of young men on the ground while civilians pelt them with rocks. Tires are piled over them. Other videos show the men on fire and display their charred remains.
"It dispelled the myth of their invincibility," said Mars. The next day, he added, "the group that they were going to meet in Dubussy was also attacked by the population with the police.
"They scrambled out of where they were and they were pursued and, one by one, killed. Some of them were lucky to get arrested and brought to the police station."
Calls for an "Operasyon File Manchet" (Operation Sharpen Machete) began to circulate on social media in Haiti on April 25. Some evangelical churches also spread the message.
"And so this has created a whole movement all over the city and even the country," said Mars, "a movement of the police in front and the people behind."
A fever of revenge
Subsequent days saw many districts of Port-au-Prince move to a war footing. When gangs entered a neighbourhood, people banged pots and pans to alert neighbours. Most neighbourhoods had just a few handguns to defend themselves from gangs armed with automatic rifles, but civilians took potshots and threw rocks from rooftops. Some were able to repel gang invasions.
Crowds went on the offensive, using their numbers to overwhelm gang safe houses, drag suspected gang members out of police stations and kill them in the street.
The anger in the videos is palpable. Haitian gangs have raped women and girls on a massive scale. They routinely kidnap children and use torture against kidnap victims. They have ruthlessly extorted even the poorest families.
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In some instances, gang members have been made to confess to crimes or gang affiliations on video. Many are burned using tires — often while still alive.
Burning with tires is a practice that goes back to the era of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It's also meant as retaliation in kind against gang members who have taunted police with videos of indignities done to the bodies of slain officers. Many Haitians involved in Bwa Kale have also shared images of a young man who was burned to death with a tire by criminals for refusing to join their gang.
Governments reduced to spectators
"Canada is deeply concerned by the recent population movement and escalation of violence in Haiti stemming from the increase of killings and executions committed by criminal actors," a spokesperson for Global Affairs told CBC News, adding that Canada's focus is on "bolstering the capabilities of the Haitian National Police in the immediate term."
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry expressed disapproval of the Bwa Kale movement in his May Day speech.
"The insecurity we live in is appalling," he said. "But don't let bad plans make us play sordid games."
"I ask my compatriots, whatever they may have suffered at the hands of the bandits, to remain calm," he said, adding that Haitians should help police by giving information about suspicious people in their neighbourhoods.
WATCH: A crowd gathers in a Port-au-Prince market for a Bwa Kale operation
But under Bwa Kale, cooperating with the police goes well beyond giving out tips. Abundant cell phone footage from Port-au-Prince shows police and civilians engaging together in street battles with gang members.
Cooperation between civilians and police is sometimes so close, it completely cuts out the Haitian government.
One neighbourhood's battle
Laboule and neighbouring Thomassin are well-to-do outlying suburbs of Port-au-Prince. In the small Laboule 12 enclave, a gang led by Ti Makak (Little Monkey) killed three police officers last September and a few weeks later ambushed and killed the district's most prominent resident, former presidential candidate Eric Jean Baptiste, together with his bodyguard.
"They started terrorizing the population, killing, shooting, raping, kidnapping, ransoming," the organizer of Laboule 12's self-defence group told CBC News. CBC is not identifying him due to the threat of gang retribution. He said he barely survived an ambush when gunfire struck the bulletproof windshield of his car.
The resident, a lawyer, said the community petitioned the government for help for months before taking matters into its own hands.
"It's as if the government is benefiting from the fact that this country is in limbo," he said. "They still get paid, they're buying brand new 2023 Land Cruisers for government officials. They're running with high security, they are safe, and the rest of the people [are] just abandoned."
He described how his group reached a deal with a local police inspector — they fixed a broken Canadian-made armoured vehicle for about $32,000 US in exchange for a police commitment to use it to defend their neighbourhood.
'It's horrific'
The group also hired private security to guard the approaches to the neighborhood.
A video the group shared showed a civilian checkpoint overlooking a footpath into the Laboule 12. People can be seen fleeing uphill from another neighbourhood, where automatic rifle fire can be heard. A man armed with an AR-15 rifle questions the refugees and makes them raise their shirts to show they are unarmed.
The group also rented pickup trucks to conduct surveillance and prepare ambushes. It all led up to what the resident called a "surge" operation that saw Ti Makak and his brother fatally wounded.
The unnamed resident estimates that at least 50 alleged bandits have been killed in his area since then.
"With that surge the entire population started to say that they had enough," he said. Ti Makak's death "emboldened some of them and they started going after (gang members) and tracking them. Soon it was the majority of the people against the gang and they started killing them.
"As a lawyer myself, it pains me to say, but there were, there was a bunch of summary executions … They were stoned to death and burned with tires, some of them even alive. It's horrific."
CBC News saw video that showed an accused gang member in Thomassin being stoned and burned in a fire.
"We've put back security on some of the territories we lost," said the resident. "So there's a sense of relief even though there's trauma.
"You start to see people coming back, coming out and starting walking again. You have some local shops that are reopening slowly. It's a slow movement, but there's a huge relief."
Innocents caught up
But as with all mob violence, this vigilante movement has claimed some innocent victims.
Police officer Emmanuel Derilien was lynched in St-Louis-Du-Nord on Monday when he was mistaken for a gang member after he shot and wounded two people in an altercation.
Crowds can quickly surround an unfamiliar face and sometimes don't give strangers a chance to justify their presence.
Though it's supportive of police, the Bwa Kale movement appears to pose a threat to the unpopular Ariel Henry government and to undermine Haiti's standing among the nations that back it, including Canada.
Most Haitians see the ruling Pati Ayisyen Tet Kale (Haitian Bald Head Party) as not only ineffective in fighting the gangs but as an accomplice of them — a conclusion supported by human rights groups.
"Whatever Ariel Henry is saying is not going to be listened to by the population because he and his government have not been able to to defend them," said Mars.
"The police, the street officers at least, have suffered quite a bit at the hands of the gangs who've been killing them, and hiding and destroying the bodies of those they kill so that their families would not be able to give them proper burial. So the street officers are also in a lot of ways taking things into their own hands."
New leaders rising
The wave of vigilantism in Haiti is bringing new leaders to the fore, such as Jean-Ernest Muscadin, the "komise" of Miragoane (a role somewhat like a district attorney).
A lanky man of serious demeanour who wears body armour to work and carries a rifle, Muscadin has become a star of Haiti's raucous citizen media channels for making his district an island of relative safety in a sea of chaos.
"I am a missionary. I came to restore order," Muscadin told Haitian reporters recently, adding the state gives him nothing beyond his salary of $445 a month.
Everything else "comes from the diaspora," he said. "You can't talk about the state. The state cannot help itself."
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Haitian-Canadians based in Montreal formed a group called the Alexandre Petion Collective which has provided Muscadin with drones, fuel for vehicles and other assistance.
"We are marching with him 100 per cent. He is our inspiration for our collective and the whole Bwa Kale movement in Haiti," a member of the collective told CBC News. (CBC is not identifying this person either, due to the risk of gang retribution; they travel to and from Haiti regularly.)
Muscadin reportedly maintains rigorous control over people and goods moving through his area. Gang members captured in Miragoane can expect to be "shot while trying to escape."
"All revolutions have the potential of birthing that kind of leadership" said Mars. "And sometimes this is dangerous also because you don't know who, when and where and what kind of individual is going to show up on the stage. It's the start of something that could evolve into a very dangerous situation."
Unintended consequences
Self-defence groups formed to combat rampant criminality in Colombia in the 1990s morphed into violent paramilitary groups that stole land, displaced people and trafficked drugs. Mars warns something similar could happen in Haiti.
"In fighting the gangs, you are letting go of the restrictions of propriety, of due process, of state control of violence, and this movement can be the breeding ground for more gangs," he said. "In general, when you have vigilante groups, what happens is that some of them over the over weeks and months become gangs themselves.
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"Since the social situation has not changed, the space is there for the replacement of the present generation by another generation of gangs."
On balance, though, Mars said he shares the sense of optimism that Bwa Kale has brought to the Haitian capital for the first time in years.
"There is something that has changed. There's a window of opportunity that has opened. Now it is up to us Haitians to take this window of opportunity and move in the right direction and not continue to destroy, burn and kill."
#'Bwa Kale!': A vigilante movement pushes back against Haiti's unending gang violence#Haiti#Haiti second revolution#Bwa Kale#vigilante violence in Haiti
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Every member of the La clan has autism.
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Lakou:While he may be considered one of the less exceptional individuals within the La clan, he still possesses a penchant for scheming. His expertise lies in agriculture, with a particular fondness for sweet potatoes.
Lakan:He is notoriously eccentric, excelling as a brilliant tactician with expertise in Go and shogi. However, he struggles in almost every other aspect, including face recognition, except for his 'Lover' and daughter.
Luomen: He thinks it's better not to talk about stuff if there's no proof for it.
Lahan: He is extremely good with numbers and finances, and he actually good at social cues.
Maomao:Her passion for poisons and herbs drives her to conduct experiments on her own body, finding great pleasure in consuming these substances.

#Lakou#La Clan#Cryptid La clan#nobody knows what’s going on with them#but they’re cool#autistic Lakou#autistic Maomao#Autistic Luomen#autistic Lakan#autistic Lahan#luomen#maomao#Lakan#Lahan#the apothecary diaries#kusuriya no hitorigoto#there needs to be more stuff on this#The entire family is crazy#Ra clan#Rakan#Rahan#Rakou#Ruomen#Roumen#loumen#knh la clan#knh ra clan#functional la(ra) clan
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hanging a new show
Horst P. Horst - Cy Twombly working
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Ana Mendieta - Untitled, Silueta Series
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Eric Mack
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Bram Braam
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Eric Tabuchi
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Andy Robert - Lakou One Two Five
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Liz Magor Catriona Jeffries
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Matt Woddward
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Max Geisler - for rent
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Oscar Murillo - The Harvest
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Al Loving - Self Portrait, 1974
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Helen O’Leary - Delicate Negotiations
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Kari Mette Wik
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Michael Kienzer - Weiß auf Weiß
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Banksy in Ukraine
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Wednesday: higher grounds
eahostudio gallery
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[en] I ADDRESS THOSE WHO WANT TO TRANSPORT THEIR CARS SAFELY!?
BUY FROM MY IDEAS OF WORK PROJECTS DRAWINGS WHAT I OFFER TO YOU AND OR FOR FACTORY MANUFACTURERS SO THAT YOU OFFER FOR CONSUMERS THAT ON THE ROAD ANYTHING HAPPENS FROM POINT (A) TO POINT (B)!
BUY VERY URGENTLY SELLING DRAWINGS
[ru] ОБРАЩАЮСЬ К ТЕМ КТО ХОЧЕТ ПЕРЕВОЗИТЬ СВОИ МАШИНЫ БЕЗОПАСНЕЙ!?
КУПИТЕ ИЗ МОИХ ИДЕИ РАБОТ ПРОЕКТОВ ЧЕРТЕЖЕЙ ЧТО ПРЕДЛАГАЮ ВАМ И ИЛИ ДЛЯ ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЕЙ ЗАВОДОВ ЧТОБ ПРЕДЛАГАЛИ ДЛЯ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЕЙ ЧТО В ДОРОГЕ ВСЯКОЕ БЫВАЕТ С ПУНКТА (А) В ПУНКТ (Б)!
КУПИТЕ ОЧЕНЬ СРОЧНО ПРОДАЮ ЧЕРТЕЖИ.
[zh-TW] 我向那些想要安全運輸汽車的人致辭! ?
從我的工作理念項目圖面購買我向您和/或工廠製造商提供的產品,以便您向消費者提供從 (A) 點到 (B) 點期間發生的任何情況!
購買非常緊急的銷售圖。
[zh-CN] 我向那些想要安全运输汽车的人致辞!?
从我的工作理念项目图纸中购买我向您和/或工���制造商提供的产品,以便您向消费者提供从 (A) 点到 (B) 点期间发生的任何情况!
购买非常紧急的销售图纸。
[ja] 車を安全に輸送したい人に向けて!
私があなたや工場の製造業者に提供する作業プロジェクトの図面から購入してください。そうすれば、道路上では地点 (A) から地点 (B) まで何かが起こるということを消費者に提供できます。
販売中の図面を緊急に購入してください。
[ko] 차량을 안전하게 운송하고 싶은 분들을 위해 말씀드립니다!?
(A) 지점에서 (B) 지점까지 도로에서 일어나는 모든 일을 소비자에게 제공할 수 있도록 제가 귀하 또는 공장 제조업체에 제공하는 작업 프로젝트 도면에 대한 내 아이디어를 구매하세요!
매우 긴급하게 판매되는 도면을 구매하세요.
[kn] ತಮ್ಮ ಕಾರುಗಳನ್ನು ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿ ಸಾಗಿಸಲು ಬಯಸುವವರಿಗೆ ನಾನು ವಿಳಾಸ ನೀಡುತ್ತೇನೆ!?
ನನ್ನ ಕೆಲಸದ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳ ರೇಖಾಚಿತ್ರಗಳಿಂದ ನಾನು ನಿಮಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಥವಾ ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಟರಿ ತಯಾರಕರಿಗೆ ಏನನ್ನು ನೀಡುತ್ತೇನೆಯೋ ಅದನ್ನು ಖರೀದಿಸಿ ಇದರಿಂದ ನೀವು ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಿಗೆ (ಯಾವುದಾದರೂ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತದೆ!)
ಬಹಳ ತುರ್ತಾಗಿ ಮಾರಾಟವಾಗುವ ಡ್ರಾಯಿಂಗ್ಗಳನ್ನು ಖರೀದಿಸಿ.
[de] Ich wende mich an alle, die ihr Auto sicher transportieren wollen!?
KAUFEN SIE AUS MEINEN IDEEN VON ARBEITSPROJEKTEN ZEICHNUNGEN, WAS ICH IHNEN UND ODER FÜR FABRIKHERSTELLER ANBIETE, DAMIT SIE FÜR VERBRAUCHER BIETEN, DASS AUF DER STRASSE ALLES VON PUNKT (A) BIS PUNKT (B) PASSIERT!
Kaufen Sie dringend Zeichnungen.
[fr] JE M'ADRESSE À CEUX QUI VEULENT TRANSPORTER LEUR VOITURE EN TOUTE SÉCURITÉ !?
ACHETEZ PARMI MES IDÉES DE PROJETS DE TRAVAIL DESSINS CE QUE JE VOUS PROPOSE ET OU POUR LES FABRICANTS D'USINE AFIN QUE VOUS PROPOSEZ AUX CONSOMMATEURS QUE SUR LA ROUTE TOUT SE PASSE DU POINT (A) AU POINT (B) !
ACHETEZ DES DESSINS DE VENTE EN TRÈS URGENCE.
[el] ΑΠΕΥΤΕΥΩ ΣΕ ΟΣΟΥΣ ΘΕΛΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΜΕΤΑΦΕΡΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΑΥΤΟΚΙΝΗΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΕ ΑΣΦΑΛΕΙΑ!?
ΑΓΟΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΙΔΕΕΣ ΜΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΕΡΓΑ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ ΣΧΕΔΙΑ ΤΙ ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΩ ΣΕ ΣΑΣ ΚΑΙ Ή ΓΙΑ ΕΡΓΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΚΟΥΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΤΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΠΡΟΣΦΕΡΕΤΕ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΕΣ ΟΤΙ ΣΤΟ ΔΡΟΜΟ ΣΥΜΒΑΙΝΕΙ ΟΤΙΔΗΠΟΤΕ ΑΠΟ ΣΗΜΕΙΟ (Α)
ΑΓΟΡΑ ΠΟΛΥ ΕΠΕΙΓΟΝ ΠΟΥΛΟΥΝ ΣΧΕΔΙΑ.
[tr] ARACINI GÜVENLE TAŞIMAK İSTEYENLERE SESLENİYORUM!?
TÜKETİCİLER İÇİN YOLDA (A) NOKTASINDAN (B) NOKTASINA HER ŞEYİN OLACAĞINI SUNMANIZ İÇİN SİZE VEYA FABRİKA İMALATÇILARINA SUNDUĞUM ÇALIŞMA PROJE ÇİZİMLERİMDEN FİKİRLERİMDEN SATIN ALIN!
ÇİZİMLERİ ÇOK ACİL SATIN ALIN.
[ar] أنا أخاطب أولئك الذين يريدون نقل سياراتهم بأمان!؟
اشترِ من أفكاري الخاصة بمشاريع العمل ورسومات ما أقدمه لك أو لمصنعي المصانع بحيث تعرض للمستهلكين أن أي شيء يحدث على الطريق من النقطة (أ) إلى النقطة (ب)!
شراء رسومات بيع عاجلة للغاية.
[ro] MĂ ADRESEZ CEI CARE VOR SĂ ȘI TRANSPORTE MAȘINILE ÎN SIGURANȚ!?
CUMPĂRĂ DIN IDEILE MELE DE PROIECTE DE LUCRU DESENE CE OFER ȚIȚI ȘI SAU PENTRU FABRICĂTORILOR PENTRU A OFERȚI CONSUMATORILOR CĂ PE DRUM SE ÎNTÂMPLĂ ORICE DE LA PUNCTUL (A) LA PUNCTUL (B)!
CUMPĂRAȚI FOARTE URGENT DE VANZARE DESENE.
[es] ¡ME DIRIGIO A QUIENES QUIEREN TRANSPORTAR SUS COCHES DE FORMA SEGURA!?
COMPRA DE MIS IDEAS DE TRABAJO PROYECTOS DIBUJOS LO QUE TE OFREZCO Y O PARA FABRICANTES DE FÁBRICA PARA QUE OFREZCAS A LOS CONSUMIDORES QUE EN EL CAMINO TODO PASA DEL PUNTO (A) AL PUNTO (B)!
COMPRO CON MUCHA URGENCIA VENDO DIBUJOS.
[haw] OLELO aku au i ka poe e makemake ana e lawe i ko lakou mau kaa me ka maluhia!?
E KUAI MAI I KO'U MANAO O KA PAPA HANA HANA I KA MEA A'u e haawi aku nei ia oe, a i ole ia, no na mea hana hale, i mea e haawi aku ai oe i na mea kuai ma ke alanui, mai ka lae (A) a hiki i ka lae (b)!
E KUAI wikiwiki loa i na kii.
[ka] მივმართავ მათ, ვისაც სურს მანქანების უსაფრთხოდ ტრანსპორტირება!?
იყიდეთ ჩემი იდეებიდან სამუშაო პროექტების ნახატებიდან, რასაც მე გთავაზობთ თქვენ და ან ქა��ხნული მწარმოებლებისთვის, რათა შესთავაზოთ მომხმარებლებს, რომ გზაზე რაიმე მოხდეს (შემთხვევით)
იყიდე ძალიან სასწრაფოდ გაყიდვადი ნახატები.
[yi] איך אַדרעס די וואס ווילן צו טראַנספּאָרטירן זייער קאַרס זיכער!?
קויפן פון מיין יידיאַז פון אַרבעט פּראַדזשעקס דראַווינגס וואָס איך פאָרשלאָגן צו איר און אָדער פֿאַר פאַבריק מאַניאַפאַקטשערערז אַזוי אַז איר פאָרשלאָגן פֿאַר קאָנסומערס אַז אויף די וועג עפּעס כאַפּאַנז פֿון פונט (א) צו פונט (ב)!
קויפן זייער דרינגלעך סעלינג דראַווינגס.
[id] SAYA MENGHADAPI MEREKA YANG INGIN MENGANGKUT MOBILNYA DENGAN AMAN!?
BELI DARI IDE GAMBAR PROYEK KERJA SAYA YANG SAYA TAWARKAN KEPADA ANDA DAN ATAU UNTUK PABRIK SEHINGGA ANDA MENAWARKAN KEPADA KONSUMEN BAHWA DI JALAN TERJADI APA SAJA DARI TITIK (A) KE TITIK (B)!
BELI GAMBAR JUAL SANGAT SEGERA.
[is] ÉG ÁVÍTI ÞEIR SEM VILJA FLUTTA BÍLA SÍNA Á ÖRYGGI!?
KAUPA AF HUGMYNDUM MÍNUM UM VERKVERKTEIKNINGAR ÞAÐ SEM ÉG BJÓÐA ÞÉR OG EÐA FRAMLEIÐENDUR Í VERKSMIÐJUM SVO AÐ ÞÚ BJÓÐI FYRIR NEYTENDUM SEM ÞAÐ GERIST ALLT Á VEINUM FRÁ A-STAÐ (B)!
KAUPA MJÖG BRYT SELJA TEIKNINGAR.
[ga] TABHAIR LIOM RIAMH LEIS NA SEAN A BHFUIL ATÁ AG IOMPAR A gCARRAÍ Sábháilte!?
Ceannach Ó MO Smaointe ar THIONSCADAIL OIBRE LÍNÍOCHTAÍ A THAIRÍONN mé DUIT AGUS NÓ DO DHÉANAMH MONARÓIRÍ Monarchan SO A THAIRISCEANN TÚ DO THOMHALTÓIRÍ A THARLAÍONN AON AR AN BHÓTHAR Ó POINTE (A) GO POINTE (B)!
Ceannaigh LÍNÍOCHTAÍ A DÍOL GO PRÁINNE go práinneach.
[it] MI RIVOLGO A CHI VUOLE TRASPORTARE LA PROPRIA AUTO IN SICUREZZA!?
ACQUISTA DALLE MIE IDEE DI LAVORO PROGETTI DISEGNI QUELLO CHE OFFRO A TE E O AI PRODUTTORI DI FABBRICA IN MODO DA OFFRIRE AI CONSUMATORI CHE SULLA STRADA SUCCEDE TUTTO DAL PUNTO (A) AL PUNTO (B)!
ACQUISTO MOLTO URGENTEMENTE VENDENDO DISEGNI.
[yo] MO KI AWON TI WON FE GBE MOTO WON LAAFIA!?
Ra lati awọn ero mi ti awọn aworan ise agbese Ise OHUN MO nfun nyin ATI TABI fun awọn olupese ile ise KI O nfun fun awọn onibara PE LORI Opopona ohunkohun ti o ṣẹlẹ lati ojuami (A) TO ojuami (B)!
RA NIKAN TI AYIYA.
[co] I INDIRIZZI À QUELLI VOULE TRANSPORTU E SUE CARU IN SICURA !?
CUMPRATU DA E MIE IDEE DI PROGETTI DI LAVORO DISEGNI QUO OFFRU À VOI È O PÀ I FABRICATORI PER VOGLI OFFRIRE À I CONSUMATORI CHE IN STRADA QUADA COSA SUCCEDE DA PUNTU (A) À PUNTU (B) !
Cumprate assai urgentemente i disegni di vendita.
[ms] SAYA ALAMAT MEREKA YANG INGIN MENGANGKUT KERETA DENGAN SELAMAT!?
BELI DARIPADA IDEA LUKISAN PROJEK KERJA SAYA YANG SAYA TAWARKAN KEPADA ANDA DAN ATAU UNTUK PENGELUAR KILANG SUPAYA ANDA MENAWARKAN UNTUK PENGGUNA YANG DI JALAN RAYA APA-APA YANG BERLAKU DARI TITIK (A) KE TITIK (B)!
BELI LUKISAN YANG MENJUAL SANGAT SEGERA.
[uk] ЗВЕРТАЮСЯ ДО ТИХ ХТО ХОЧЕ ПЕРЕВЕЗИТИ СВОЇ МАШИНИ БЕЗПЕЧНІШО!?
КУПИТЕ З МОЇХ ІДЕЇ РОБОТ ПРОЕКТІВ КРЕСЛЕНЬ ЩО ПРОПОНУЮ ВАМ І АБО ДЛЯ ВИРОБНИКІВ ЗАВОДІВ ЩОБ ПРОПОНУВАЛИ ДЛЯ СПОЖИВАЧІВ ЩО В ДОРОГІ БУДЬ-ЯКЕ БУВАЄ З ПУНКТУ ()
КУПИТЕ ДУЖЕ ТЕРМІНОВО ПРОДАЮ КРЕСЛЕННЯ.
[ur] میں ان لوگوں سے مخاطب ہوں جو اپنی کاروں کو محفوظ طریقے سے منتقل کرنا چاہتے ہیں!؟
میرے آئیڈیاز آف ورک پروجیکٹس ڈرائنگ سے خریدیں جو میں آپ کو اور یا فیکٹری مینوفیکچررز کے لیے پیش کرتا ہوں تاکہ آپ ان صارفین کے لیے پیش کریں جو روڈ پر کچھ بھی ہوتا ہے (پوائنٹ کے بعد)
بہت فوری طور پر بیچنے والی ڈرائنگ خریدیں۔
[tl] I ADDRESS SA MGA NAIS NA TRANSPORT ANG KANILANG MGA KOTSE NG LIGTAS!?
BUMILI MULA SA AKING MGA IDEYA NG MGA PROYEKTO NG TRABAHO DRAWING KUNG ANO ANG INI-aalok KO SA IYO AT O PARA SA MGA MANUFACTURER NG PABRIKA PARA I-OFFER MO PARA SA MGA CONSUMERS NA SA DAAN ANUMANG MANGYAYARI MULA POINT (A) TO POINT (B)!
BUMILI NG VERY URGENTLY SELLING DRAWING.
[fi] OSOITTUN NIIHIN, JOKA HALUAA KULJETTAA AUTOJAAN TURVALLISESTI!?
OSTA TYÖPROJEKTI-IDEOISTANI PIIRUSTUKSIA, MITÄ TARJOAN SINULLE JA TAI TEHDASVALMISTAJILLE, ETTÄ TARJOAT KULUTTAJILLE, JOTKA TIELLÄ TAPAHTUU KAIKKI PISTÄSTÄ (A) PISTEEN (B)!
OSTA ERITTÄIN KIIREELLISESTI MYYTÄVÄT PIIRUSTUKSET.
[hi] मैं उन लोगों को संबोधित करता हूँ जो अपनी कारों का सुरक्षित परिवहन करना चाहते हैं!?
कार्य परियोजनाओं के मेरे विचारों से खरीदें, जो मैं आपको या फैक्टरी निर्माताओं के लिए पेश करता हूं, ताकि आप उपभोक्ताओं के लिए यह पेशकश कर सकें कि सड़क पर बिंदु (ए) से बिंदु (बी) तक कुछ भी होता है!
बहुत जल्द बिकने वाले चित्र खरीदें।
[gd] Bidh mi a’ dèiligeadh ris an fheadhainn a tha airson na càraichean aca a ghluasad gu sàbhailte!?
Ceannaich bho na beachdan agam mu na dealbhan pròiseict obrach agam NA tha mi a’ tabhann dhut fhèin agus no dha luchd-saothrachaidh factaraidh gus am bi thu a’ tabhann do luchd-cleachdaidh a bhios air an rathad a’ tachairt bho phuing (A) gu puing (B)!
Ceannaich dealbhan gu math èiginneach A 'reic dhealbhan.
[eo] MI ALPARAS TIUJN, KIUJ VOLAS SEKURE TRANSPORTI SIAJN AŬTOJN!?
AĈETU EL MIAJ IDEOJ PRI LABORPROJECTOJ DESEGNOJ KION MI OFFERTAS AL VI KAJ AŬ POR FABRIKAJ FABRICANTOJ POR KIU OFERTU POR konsumantoj, ke SUR LA VOJO IO OKAZAS DE PUNTO (A) AL PUNTO (B)!
AĈETU TRE UĜE VENDANtajn DESEGNOJN.
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