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The 2024 Cité Soleil massacre took place on 6 and 11 December 2024, in the commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the site of a massacre perpetrated by a gang controlling the area of Wharf Jeremie, leaving at least 207 people dead according to the U.N. [1] [2] [3] Elderly Haitian Vodou practitioners were reportedly the primary targets.
People walk past a burning barricade in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in a Nov. 19, 2024 file photo, taken in one of the few areas of the capital city not under the full ...
The Bel Air massacre was a series of shootings, extrajudicial killings, and massacres that took place in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti between August 2020 and May 2021. Between August and October 2020, G9 An Fanmi e Alye members attacked Bel Air residents, with continued attacks by the affiliated Krache Dife gang.
Since the government's de facto collapse in 2018, Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince has become a hotbed of anarchic gang activity with brutal murders and spates of killing. [1] This was exacerbated in 2021 by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, leading most of the gangs in Port-au-Prince to ally with G9 or G-Pep. [1]
Members of the Haitian Armed Forces patrol as people flee homes following the gang violence over the weekend in Port-au-Prince. ... the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 ...
At least 110 mostly elderly people have been brutally murdered by gang members in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a human rights group. The National Human Rights Defence Network ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [10] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [13]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti − Armed men belonging to Haiti's Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people, including three infants, and forced at least 3,000 to flee as they swept through a town shooting ...