Haiti - The Fragmented Self Murders the Displaced Other in the Church

Event Baseline: Gang members killed around 40 displaced people sheltering in a church in Kenscoff, near Port-au-Prince. The attack occurred Sunday night; some people remain missing.

The church is supposed to be sanctuary. But the word sanctuary is not the fact. The fact is a room full of bodies and men with guns. The gang is a product of the same fragmentation that built the church. It worships the self, not God. It kills the other to prove its own power. The displaced are already dead in the mind before the bullet arrives. They are not seen as humans. They are seen as obstacles, as symbols of weakness. The state is absent because the state is also just another gang. There is no order, only force. The illusion of sanctuary collapses the moment the self enters with a weapon.