Spot News, 2nd prize
Carol Halebian
Gamma
Gamma
25 November, 1987
Days before the scheduled election, a group of vigilantes capture and execute a member of the Tonton Macoute secret police. As passers-by looked on, they killed him with knives and machetes and then covered the body with the wood and tires that were to be his funeral pyre.
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