‘It was a massacre’: Haiti gangs carry out mass killings across the country | The Guardian
Source: The Guardian | 2 July 2026
[...] In Artibonite, the region where the Jean-Denis massacre occurred, violent incidents involving gangs and vigilante groups have risen from 39 in 2021 to 238 in 2025, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data project (ACLED), a conflict-monitoring organisation.
[...]Nationwide, violent incidents have surged from 615 in 2021 to 1,626 in 2025, according to ACLED data. Nearly 6,000 people died in gang violence in 2025, and more than a tenth of the country’s population, about 1.4 million people, have been displaced from their homes, according to the UN.
[...] “Port-au-Prince gangs appear to be expanding into Sud-Est, where they face less pressure from law enforcement operations,” says Sandra Pellegrini, senior Latin American analyst at ACLED. [...]
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