OBSERVATORY OF VIOLENCE AND RESILIENCE IN HAITI 2 NOVEMBER 2024

In October, the raised among the Haitian population and the importance spread of violence was dramatically accentuated by a it has assumed in the eyes of the international massacre committed by the Gran Grif Gang in community. [...] Faced with this the country, with gangs controlling the main highways challenge, the MSS mission and the HNP are still unable and having driven up the cost of extortion on the to respond to the opening of multiple fronts or to transport of goods, particularly in the Canaan area, an occupy the field over the medium term. [...] These operational shortcomings benefit the gangs, who continue to play a game of cat and mouse The gangs still control more than 80% of the Port-au- with the public forces, catching police operations off Prince, as well as the main roads leading to the capital, guard or nullifying their efforts by retaking disputed isolating it from the rest of the country and making the territories as soon as the. [...] This is due to the dangerous nature country, with gangs controlling the main highways, of the environment, the lack of human and technical while having driven up the cost of extortion on the resources available to the HNP and the MSS, and the transport of goods, particularly in the Canaan area, an strategy adopted by the gangs, especially since March essential passageway to the north and centre of. [...] Despite the relative These acts of violence demonstrate the fragility of the calm, the area faces serious challenges, including the situation and the gangs’ ability to reactivate violent presence of active gangs and harsh living conditions in practices from one moment to the next.