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Rights Group: Haiti Gang Attack Kills At Least 70

Rights groups said the attack killed up to 70 people and forced nearly 6,000 residents to flee as gangs burned homes and blocked roads.

  • 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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Fired houses, crowded civilians and saboteured streets to work for the police. Amnesty International speaks in "massacre" and another "atrocity" in "a series of crimes" in Haiti can't stop.

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Members of the "Gran Grif" gang appear to be responsible for the deadly attack in the town of Petite Riviere

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…

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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…

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Several attacks targeted the town of Petite-Rivière-de-l'Artibonite, during the night of Saturday to Sunday. Police reported on Monday a first count of at least 16 deaths.

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UN News broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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