Haiti: spiralling gang violence has left more than one million ...
Jan 14, 2025 · Surging gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold rise in the number of people uprooted from their homes in a year, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday, in a call for “sustained humanitarian assistance right now to save and protect lives”.
A Timeline of Haiti's Gang Violence and How the Country Got to …
Mar 7, 2024 · January 2023 — After Haiti's government fails to hold elections, citing unprecedented levels of gang violence, Haiti is stripped of its last democratically elected officials. Critics say it...
A timeline of Haiti's gang violence and how the country got to …
Mar 7, 2024 · Feb. 29, 2024 — Haitian gangs carry out a series of coordinated attacks across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, killing at least four police officers. Powerful gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, better known as Barbecue, claims responsibility for the attacks.
Gang war in Haiti - Wikipedia
Since the end of the MINUSTAH in October 2017, there has been an increase in the amount of gang-related violence, as well as an increase in the amount of gang-related violence against civilians, notably the 2018 Port-au-Prince massacre, in which 25 civilians were killed.
Gang violence is tearing Haiti apart. Here’s what to know
Aug 2, 2023 · Over the past two years, warring gangs in Port-au-Prince have visited terror upon the country’s vital port city with rape, torture and killing as they vie for territorial control. Thousands...
Haiti’s gangs inflict ‘extreme brutality’ as casualties rise – UN ...
Oct 30, 2024 · At least 106 extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions were carried out by law enforcement officials, including six children aged 10 or younger, the report from the UN’s Integrated Office...
Haiti: Over 5,600 killed in gang violence in 2024, UN figures show
Jan 7, 2025 · GENEVA – At least 5,601 people were killed in Haiti last year as a result of gang violence, an increase of over 1,000 on the total killings for 2023, according to figures verified by the UN Human Rights Office. A further 2,212 people were injured and 1,494 kidnapped.
Haiti: Everything you need to about the ongoing violence | AP News
Mar 12, 2024 · It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of colonialism, and European and U.S. interference with the West’s first free Black republic.
Haiti: Over 20,000 flee as gang violence spurs mass displacement
Nov 18, 2024 · Over 20,000 people have fled their homes across Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince in just four days amid escalating gang violence, with more than 17,000 seeking shelter in 15 displacement sites as...
Haiti gang violence deaths surge in 2024, UN says
Mar 28, 2024 · More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations Human Rights Office says. Haiti’s gang wars have intensified in recent weeks with...