Haiti gang violence claims 5,000 lives in less than a year, UN report


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  • Friday, 11 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: A woman holding a banner that reads in Haitian Creole “Drones are for the people, not against the people”, during a protest against insecurity, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jean Feguens Regala/File Photo

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Almost 5,000 people have been killed in Haiti since October 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands as gang violence has escalated particularly around the capital Port-au-Prince, according to a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report published on Friday.

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