Former '400 Mawozo' hostages describe ordeal as Haiti gang demands $17 million ransom for kidnapped missionaries

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Former '400 Mawozo' hostages describe ordeal as Haiti gang demands $17 million ransom for kidnapped missionaries
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Survivors of a previous kidnapping by the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo have revealed details about what life was like as a hostage.

, and 400 Mawozo members are believed to have been responsible for kidnapping ten French missionaries in April of this year, who were released after 20 days. In interviews with ABC News, two survivors recounted their experience and offered their prayers for the current hostages.

"The message I have for them is not to be impatient," he said."I do think that one day all of them will be free."Security forces patrol the streets of Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 19, 2021. A general strike continues in Haiti demanding that authorities address the nation's lack of security, days after 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group were abducted by a gang.

In the forest they experienced perhaps the most terrifying event of their ordeal -- when they suspected their captors were digging makeshift graves.Odelyn Joseph/AP

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