Jacques Roche
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Jacques Roche was a prominent journalist and poet of Haiti. He was kidnapped on July 10, 2005, and was found dead on July 15, 2005. Television footage showed him tied to a chair and mutilated. Police say he was tortured, his tongue cut out, then shot.
On July 16 and 22, members of the UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and local police arrested three suspects. According to Reporters Without Borders, they belong to a gang called the "Rat Army" that operates in the Port-au-Prince district of Bel-Air.