CGTN published this video item, entitled “Investigation underway after missionaries from U.S. organization abducted in Haiti” – below is their description.
CNN reported that Haitian officials are in touch with the U.S. State Department after a missionary group, including 16 Americans and one Canadian, were kidnapped in Haiti.
It cited sources saying the U.S. does not know the current location of the abducted Americans, and Haitian security officials have attributed the kidnapping to a local gang.
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This story is an English language news item from CGTN. CGTN is a Chinese state-funded broadcaster.
Haiti is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east. Though it’s still recovering from a 2010 earthquake, many of Haiti’s landmarks dating to the early 19th century remain intact. These include Citadelle la Ferrière, a mountaintop fortress.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (later Emperor Jacques I), defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces and declared Haiti’s sovereignty on 1 January 1804.
Haiti became the only state in history established by a successful slave revolt. Apart from Alexandre Pétion, the first President of the Republic, all of Haiti’s first leaders were former slaves.
