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The investigation highlights a historic first: the indictment of an individual under the U.S. Department of Justice’s International Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. This landmark case involves Jimmy Chery Barbecue himself, a former police officer in Haiti with a notorious history of orchestrating violence against his compatriots.
Barbecue’s past actions include leading and participating in violent campaigns, most infamously the 2018 Loelene attack, which resulted in the brutal killing of approximately 71 people. This incident has been widely condemned by human rights activists globally as a grave violation of human rights and a reflection of the intense turf wars destabilizing Haiti’s fragile social fabric.