El Salvador President Nayb Bukele has declared that the four troops handed over to the Salvatore forces in Haiti on Saturday do not belong to missing soldiers after a ambush near Port-au-Prince capital, Reuters forwards Duguagjini.
They’re not our people, Bukele wrote on the X platform, rejecting a report of The New York TimesAccording to which the troops found were believed to be all four sausage soldiers.
The soldiers disappeared last Sunday after their armoured vehicle was attacked and fired on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. They were out of the vehicle while returning from a market to their base.
According to Bukele, among the surrender troops were a child, a man evidently taller than the sausage soldiers and a soldier from another country. He also published photographs of an identification document for a soldier from Chad.
During the week, the president had declared that four soldiers were being held by gangs and that El Salvador had launched a military operation to return safely. Further, additional Salvatore troops were sent to Haiti to support the research and security operations.
According to Reuters, the ambush was the first major attack on the League Repression Force, a multinational mission authorised by the UN, since its operations in Haiti began this year. The mission refused to comment on the case.
No group has publicly claimed responsibility. Local media have linked the attack to gangs operating in the area, including the Chen Mechan armed groups and 400 Mawozo.
The mission has about 2,000 troops on the ground, significantly below the 5,500 – member limit. Meanwhile, gangs have expanded control over large parts of Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïs in 2021, while violence has displaced about 1.4 million to 1.5 million people.
Source Layer: Dukeagini