Buteur Métayer (''c''. 1970 – June 8, 2005) was a gang leader in

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

during the

2004 Haiti rebellion 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

. Following the assassination of his brother,

Amiot Métayer Amiot Métayer (died 20/21 September 2003) was a gang leader in Haiti. His gang, based in the northern city of Gonaïves, was called the " Cannibal Army". He was also known as "Ti-Cubain" (créole for Little Cuban). Although he had once worked for H ...

, in 2003, he became the leader of his brother's gang, then known as the "

Cannibal Army The National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti (french: Front pour la libération et la reconstruction nationales, links=no) was a rebel group in Haïti that controlled most of the country following the 2004 Haitian ...

". He renamed the gang the "Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front" and participated in the seizure of the northern city of

Gonaïves Gonaïves (; ht, Gonayiv, ) is a commune in northern Haiti, and the capital of the Artibonite department of Haiti. It has a population of about 300,000 people, but current statistics are unclear, as there has been no census since 2003. History ...

at the start of the rebellion against Haitian President

Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in ...

on February 5, 2004. On February 19, he declared himself the president of the "liberated" parts of Haiti as a new state called "Artibonite" and renamed the rebel group again, this time as the

National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti The National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti (french: Front pour la libération et la reconstruction nationales, links=no) was a rebel group in Haïti that controlled most of the country following the 2004 Haitian ...

. In June 2005, he died of

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ...

in Gonaïves. Some of his supporters claim that he had been poisoned.

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1970 births 2005 deaths Deaths from kidney failure Haitian rebels {{NorthAm-mil-bio-stub