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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded where I haven't got any fun

equips for you today because we've got a big fucking episode. Yep.

All I would say is if you haven't yet, there is a linked short-hand to this episode,

which you can listen to on Amazon Music, it is an entire short-hand focused on Haitian voodoo.

So go check that out, you can do that before or after this, but do it. Please, please.

So we actually brought this episode up in the running order because of some things that have been

going on in the world. Because last month in April 2023, a mob of civilians in Haiti captured

13 suspected gang members dragged them into the streets of the capital, Porto-Prince,

and burned them alive using gasoline soaked tires. This harrowing incident of vigilanteism

came after weeks of horrific gang violence, suffered by the people of this small Caribbean

island nation. And just to tell you how bad it's been, in the first three months of 2023,

807 people were killed or lynched, 620 people were kidnapped, and 120,000 people were internally

displaced in Haiti. A couple of weeks ago, the UN even released a report saying that they now

believed 80% of Porto-Prince, so that's Haiti's capital city, is now controlled by gangs.

Though reports from the ground suggest that it's more like 100%. But the gangs are just one part

of the problem. Last month, April 2023, the final 10 remaining senators in Haiti's parliament

left office, leaving the country without a single democratically elected government official.

Anywhere. And Haiti now stands on a knife edge, with multiple terrifying catastrophes,

from the horrific gang violence to famine, cholera, major fuel shortages, and total economic

collapse hurtling towards its people. Things are so bad right now that Russia's Wagner group

are even offering to help fight the gangs. Anyone who knows anything about the Wagner group,

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