Haiti, the Sh!t-hole

Corpses rotting in the streets, gangs ruling by terror

Even the police teaming up with vigilantes

As shocking video footage of the incident confirmed, one of them — the gang's leader, known as Makandal — had already had his hands hacked off.

Excited children mingled with men brandishing machetes in the large crowd that accompanied the grim procession, as people chanted 'Viv la polis!', or 'Long live the police!' The bodies of the two men were set on fire minutes later to cries of 'Ole, ole, ole!' from bystanders.

Police, desperately out-gunned and under-manned, are openly colluding with the vigilantes. They have reportedly taken on the gangs together in joint operations in which the so-called 'self-defense brigades' are sometimes armed only with machetes, hammers and even just their bare hands.