More than 50 people were killed in a series of Haitian gang attacks last week, a local human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) reported on Monday, in the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation’s latest gruesome mass killing.
The attacks took place on Thursday and Friday last week in areas north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said in a report.
“As of September 14, 2025, several victims had still not been found, while corpses still lay in the bushes, devoured by dogs,” it said.
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Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, has been gripped by soaring violence, with swaths of the nation and the vast majority of Port-au-Prince under the control of armed gangs.
The situation deteriorated further early last year when a coalition of gangs launched a wave of attacks, leading to Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry’s resignation and handing over of power to a presidential transition council.
The deployment of a Kenyan-led multinational force to back up Haiti’s police has also failed to quell the violence.
The “Viv Ansanm” gang coalition, which has been in control of the town of Cabaret since March last year, “carried out an extremely cruel massacre against the civilian population” in the nearby town of Laboderie, the RNDDH said.
The area is about 25km north of Port-au-Prince.
“They murdered more than 50 people and set fire to dozens of houses,” the RNDDH said. “A few survivors were able to flee to neighboring areas, while others took to the sea in boats to try to escape the attackers.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month said that “state authority is crumbling” in Haiti.
He warned the UN Security Council that violence was spreading beyond Haiti’s capital, where gangs control more than 90 percent of the territory.
Guterres on Sunday condemned the attack in the Cabaret commune and called for countries to “expedite efforts towards strengthening the Multinational Security Support mission with logistics, personnel and funding.”
At least 3,141 people were killed in Haiti in the first half of this year, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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