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Rights Group: Haiti Gang Attack Kills At Least 70
Rights groups said as many as 70 people were killed and 6,000 were displaced as the gang attack spread across rural communities.
- On March 28–30, armed Gran Grif gang members attacked Jean-Denis in Petite-Riviere, Artibonite, burning homes and setting roadblocks that forced nearly 6,000 people to flee.
- The United States designated Gran Grif and Viv Ansanm as Foreign Terrorist Organizations last year, citing them as "the primary source of instability and violence in Haiti."
- Police confirmed 16 fatalities, though rights group Defenders Plus reported at least 70 people killed, with gang control of the area hindering verification efforts.
- United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric condemned the violence, while advocacy groups criticized the delayed police response and "abandonment of Artibonite to armed groups."
- More than 1.4 million Haitians have been displaced by gang violence, and this massacre threatens the Artibonite region's agricultural output, intensifying calls for sustained international security intervention.
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United Nations, United States. At least 70 people died in “brutal and coordinated” attacks on a town in central Haiti during the weekend, a UN official reported Tuesday, offering the most reliable number of deaths to date. “This blind violence is yet another reminder of the urgent need to increase support for Haiti in the face of the scourge of gangs and networks that support them,” wrote on social network X Carlos Ruiz Massieu, head of the UN o…
Puerto Príncipe, 31 Mar (EFE).- The special representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, confirmed this Tuesday the number of at least “70 dead in brutal and coordinated attacks” in the department of Artibonite, north of the capital, a massacre carried out by the armed group Gran Grif. “This indiscriminate violence reminds us once again of the urgency of strengthening support for Haiti to combat the plague of the gan…
Haiti: At least 30 people dead after gang attacks town
Gran Grif attacked Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite early Sunday, burning homes and leaving bodies strewn on the streets. The gang attacked again on Monday, said Bertide Horace, spokesperson for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, an activist group
Haiti gang kills dozens in Artibonite massacre as death toll disputed
A coordinated gang assault on rural communities in Haiti's Artibonite region over the weekend left scores dead and thousands displaced, with rights groups putting the death toll as high as 70 while authorities confirmed only 16 fatalities.
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