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

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

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 a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hi ...

. 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 ...

, 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 () was a rebel group in Haiti that controlled most of the country following the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. It was briefly known as the "Revolutionary Artibonite Resist ...

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

Gonaïves Gonaïves (; also Les Gonaïves; , ) is a commune in northern Haiti, and the capital of the Artibonite department of Haiti. The population was 356,324 at the 2015 census. History The city of Gonaïves was founded around 1422 by a group of T ...

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 in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état. As a priest, he taught liberation theo ...

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. In June 2005, he died of

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), 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 fa ...

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